good evening ladies and gentlemen welcome to this meeting of the hound city council we are running a few minutes behind here we had a very full pre canceled meeting this evening so we apologize for that but we will  get going here and get on with this evening's business and the first thing that we need to do in that business is have a roll call and which please call the roll bar here your theory  i will deliver this evening and that is then followed by the pledge a leave pledge of allegiance to the flag of our country i would invite all of you who are able to stand with us at this point and we will go to those two items you would pray with me please lord our god we thank you for the blessing of our community with caring people we may we all do what we can to help those less fortunate than ourselves we thank you for the abundant resources that you provided may we use them for the benefit of all we thank you for our city employees those who protect us and our property and who make this a better place to live protect them from harm as they go about their work we thank you for this country where we enjoy the right to freely vote to elect those who govern us may we honor those who have defended this right by exercising that right on november three blessed this council as we conduct our meeting tonight help us to listen respectfully to think clearly and arrive at decisions that serve the greater good of us all and lord especially this evening we ask for the blessing of comfort and healing for christy and for patience in the sense of peace for her and her family liberty and justice for  for those who are in attendance here there are items agendas of the items that we will consider in paper form that are back at the entryway so that you can follow along for those who are watching live to the live feed of this you can access that same material from the city's web page if you have the agenda you will notice that there are are many that are marked with an asterisk those asterisks indicate that we consider these items to be routine and we'll be dealing with them in a single motion with a single vote in something called the consent agenda  order to do that however we need to know what is on the consent agenda and would you please provide us with a summary item for c to accept in file executed house of office from various boards and commission item twelve eighty one to declare a surplus of various items listed from the wastewater services information technology and materials and facilities department for the hon part of public works i had him twelve eighty two to approve a contract with c t c technology and energy in the total amount forty eight thousand five hundred dollars for broadband consulting services pending approval asked a form by the city attorney i had him twelve do you want to claims filed against the city to the city's insurance carrier and city attorney for consideration item twelve eat three point one to declare a surplus various bicycles and authorize staff to dispose of the items as indicated on report item twelve e's three with those services for printing processing and mailing of fifteen thousand two thousand and sixteen city care for two thousand six hundred city calendars at a cost of fifteen thousand eight hundred  dollars and fifty cents and to amend the solid waste fund budget to cover additional cost item twelve ethe report three to adopt a resolution to place already an ordinance violation invoices on the winter two thousand and fifteen property tax bill i did twelve eat three point four two except the august financial report as presented by the finance department i had him twelve eat three point five to adopt a resolution to amend the comprehensive financial plan for pension and other post employment benefits item twelve easy five twenty two to approve a residential sidewalk variance request from three fifty east twenty seventh street i had him twelve east six point one to accept the sidewalk easement located at two fourteen east eighth street in support of the eighth street project and authorize a total payment to the property owner in the amount of one thousand six hundred fifty two dollars and eighty three cents i did twelve east six point two two except the sidewalk easement located at six thirty eight east sixteenth street in support of the sixteenth street project and authorized the total payment to the property owner in the amount of seven thousand four hundred eighty seven dollars and forty cents and also to amend the agenda by removing item fourteen  thank you who heard the items that are proposed for the consent agenda if one of those items happens to be something that you came specifically to address council about and would like to have an opportunity to address us or to hear discussion about that item this is your opportunity to remove that and if any are removed they will be taken in their regular order as on the agenda is there anyone on the in the audience who wishes to remove a that then brings us down to item five special presentations and recognition this evening i believe we're turning that over to the city manager yes mr mayor thank you  very pleased tonight to signify that a gentleman is here who is representing his corporation and chairman of the airport tim klunder has been in touch with our office as has craig robinson the staff and between the two of us we had three to five missions a week we flew out of a job city or west but your usual airport during the time that we owned the airplane our business grew from thirteen employees and i came there to about three hundred fifty people today so we had significant growth by jobs and we think the airport was part of that significant growth and at the time the partnership was formed we have part of bought three and a half acre piece property on lincoln avenue that's directly jason to the airport our vision was to potentially build a hangar there some day and we decided a later day that it wasn't something that was in the plan and then two years ago there the airplane was liquidated the partnership was liquidated so we currently don't know the airplane but as a way to thank the city council and city hall and we'd like to donate that piece of property to the city councils in the city hall and therefore their regional airport authority for the use as you see  and we want to thank you for having the vision wisdom to as i said to have the airport part of our significant growth that was keep factor in our growth over the many many years so no second answering questions that's pretty much so we appreciate it and we thank you mr arrington we certainly want to thank you as well it is folks like you who have been leaders in the economic growth of this community and provided you know jobs for as you said starting with twelve and now about three hundred fifty people that have made made this the community that we grow have grown to love good night yes good evening maryanne demasi members of the hound city council tonight we have several public hearings related to downtown assessments the first on the agenda is a public hearing for the a new all downtown parking operations and maintenance assessment we are recommending that city council adopt a resolution approving the downtown parking operations and maintenance final assessment roll a few weeks ago i was here and presented to you all under a public area of necessity to put together the in you all susman for parking in downtown the parking assessment district includes properties that are within four hundred feet of a public parking lot and generally include properties or parking lots that are adjacent to properties bonded by fist street on the north columbia avenue on the east eleventh street on the south and pine avenue on the west parking the a parking assessment funds that are generated are used for maintenance of the downtown parking lots are out the year purchasing leases to add to our parking stock to administer the parking program in allows us to keep the public parking free to the general public the amount assessed during fiscal year two thousand and fifteen was just over one hundred ninety three thousand and we are recommending a three percent increase over the previous year for a total amount in fiscal year two thousand and sixteen one hundred ninety nine thousand five hundred ten dollars and ninety three cents a little behind sorry all right thank you but in order to adopt that role before we do that we have to hold public hearings i understand that's all right at this time i will declare the public hearing the assessment role for the parking operations and maintenance assessment to be open to anyone who wishes to address council on this item this is your opportunity please approach the microphone state your name and residential address for the record and make your statement in five minutes or less i will declare the public hearing to be closed and we then have a resolution supported by leaders the brings us down to six b which is the public hearing and the principal shopping district assessment yes thank you again this evening also on your agenda is a recommendation that city council adopt a resolution approving the principal shopping district final assessment role the principal shopping district as a myriad of activities throughout the year i'm going to review a few of them with you which doesn't necessarily cover everything  give everybody a sense here and in the home of what the p s t doesn't in your whole basis p s g is dedicated to enhancing downtown how and by promoting and marketing downtown events activities and the general business district within downtown how on specific p s v projects include the downtown holland dining guide downtown maps group booklets street performer series sidewalk sales live manikin event promotion of holiday events the parade of lights  just recently held the fall fast jingle jam hope pap's business advocacy various business seminars and workshops the downtown how and website and social media seasonal advertising image and branding and business recruitment and much more the p s t assessment policy as approved by councils based on building square footage and in fiscal year two thousand and sixteen we anticipate generating revenue in them out of a hundred seventy eight thousand five hundred eighty and forty cents for two thousand and sixteen all right once again we are in the system will be for us and in order to for we pass that we have to hold a public hearing so i would clear the public hearing on the p s t assessment roll through the open everybody would like to speak to that this is your opportunity in the snow melt us us mint covers properties or is rather assessed to properties that have snow melt immediately adjacent to their particular property and as a suster cover costs for operating the system to recover costs to maintain in mid to maintain the system on an in your basis and then as new properties are added to the snow melt assessment area we do add them into the assessment district the snow melt assessments this year are all based on a total square foot area and in fiscal year two thousand and fifteen the assessment rate increased by twenty percent however this year we're recommending a five percent increase in the overall revenue collected through assessments this year the assessment rate would be thirty three cents per square foot oh i'm sorry that's not true thirty nine cents per square foot and in fiscal year two thousand and fifteen city properties recess thirty three cents per square foot and this year as a reminder we did switch the approach to how we are sussing properties previously we had us us based on linear  feet and as we've gotten outside of eighth street where we have varying sizes of sidewalks we are recommending a change in how we assess properties and base it on square feet and set of linear feet this year we anticipate collecting through the assessments one hundred seventy four thousand and six hundred fifty four dollars and ninety three cents all right once again we need a public hearing or before we approve this assessment roll if you have come this evening to address the special assessment for the downtown snow melt operations and maintenance assessment this is your opportunity to the microphone at this time to clear the public  and i would encourage all of the public that makes use of downtown holland whether it's the p s t events the parking or makes use of snow  melt in the winter to thank our downtown property owners and merchants for quite a nice through an additional assessment that they that they pay that then brings us out unfinished business we have to traffic changes its first item parking change on college avenue a loading zone members of council given all the activities city engineers been involved in recently and hearing no objection to either one of these i will be addressing this report tonight i shall and you're on the mean is the area adjacent brewing college avenue which is recommended for the loading zone this was reviewed by the city council and then tabled until such time as the community could be alerted and then put sought no objections or received good birch tree discussion any members of council wish to discuss this you second item traffic change no parking signs and country club road north of legion park you're a motion to place this on the floor  you mr mayor there is an area proposed for no parking in a pertains to a request to park recreational vehicles in the right way of country club road north of legion park drive however the committee does not find the traffic and it is do not find that this area to be suitable for parking or storage of recreational vehicles and believes it should be posted for no parking as shown on the screen in front of you the notices went out there have been no objections received that brings us down to items nine which is public count this is an opportunity for the public to address the council and to make any approach brokerage comments you wish to do so we asked  ankle and council members my name is mary white ford i live in casco township and many of you may know that i did run for state representative a year and a half ago i came in second and since then i've just been working hard sta connected with the community with farmers are chambers of commerce is our mental health community mental health board i'm also on the michigan women's commission so i've been helping with human trafficking and we have a task force between our one allegheny county and then some veterans of veterans events so as a business owner and part of the chamber of commerce in the community i really want to be a good voice for the people here my granddaughter was born here last year my nephew lives in holland my son graduated from holland christian i'm here all the time and i really want to be an ambassador for holland i want to collaborate with our other elected officials who i consider friends and i hope to utilize for carpooling but it's really important to me to have three major things and my goal is the economy and back to the three things we need to have our local municipalities work together for job creation and economic growth we also need to have our job creators our business owners and then our final thing is our educators we need to make sure that our children and our adults are prepared for jobs we don't want to be the place that companies don't come to because we don't have an educated workforce that will be my priority to collaborate and be an  that for this whole region and continue the incredible growth that west michigan has had in the past few years and i'm really honored to be a part of that and i ask for your vote on november third just under two weeks away and know that i will be accessible i will be here in holland probably as often as i am right now and i will work hard i'm a conservative christian mother grandmother one hundred percent pro life and then i'm honored to say i've been married to my husband from us twenty nine years so we're going to take the family on a little vacation together to celebrate this winner i thank you and if you have any questions i'd love to hear from you at any time  know your your home area quite well i was the director of the phone bill district library for five years so i know casco township the other members of the audience that wish to address council on any topic that's not on the agenda all right that brings us down to twelve reports from boards and commissions  address an item that i know has been of interest to the council and of study for many years dealing with broadband and tonight what we have before you is a recommendation for some consulting services associated with developing and refreshing a broadband business plan the b p w has been in the broadband business for many years now we first build our fiber optic network to support our own utility services back in the one nine hundred ninety s but when you build out an infrastructure like that there are additional fibers generally in a bundle that can be put to other use and we have done that we have done that by hooking up various businesses in the community providing the wholesale relationship where we provide the fiber to the company and we have a relationship with some internet service providers that are providing the actual content or the access to the internet you know across our fiber we have also provided building to building connections both for the city and for many other organizations in our community as well as some of our non electric utility services of water and waste water  opportunity to look at what we've become long term for our community has been a study for many years four years ago we had a broadband study that was performed at that time that looked at deploying fiber throughout our electric service territory and providing maintaining a wholesale relationship was one option additionally there were various retail service options considered including the prospect of triple play it's called where you might offer not only internet but phone and cable t v over the last four years we have been studying that we have done other things to try to increase our customer hookups on the business side to some success but a lot of those business hook ups today have been larger businesses we have not found a good solution yet i would say for the smaller business sector as well as finding a relationship with an internet service provider to build provide a wholesale model to those businesses as well as to the fiber to the home so at this time in order to look at fulfilling a need that's out there to help  holland be differentiated from other communities in being able to offer high speed broadband access throughout our community we are starting a process this is a beginning of a process where we could become an internet service provider ourselves in order to do that you need to make an application with the state of michigan and that application needs a business plan that is certified by a certified public accounting firm and  o that is one step in the process that is before you tonight is the actual business plan development we are also at the same time investigating additional technologies associate with broadband to date we have put in place a technology called active ether net which is essentially putting a fiber switch at the business location that we've connected with and we regulate the speed that the business customer has subscribed to and guarantee that speed up and down for for that customer while that has proven to be a very successful deployment for several businesses in our community and we grow that this year we've grown fifty new connections to those businesses it is a more costly fiberoptic connections solution than is in the price point for residential and for small small businesses in ordered could find a solution that would work well for those applications we are testing what is called a gigabit passive optical network or cheap on pilot we are moving forward with that here over the next few months in our downtown area in order to test the technology will be able to do that concurrently with the development of this business plan the business plan that we are proposing has several financial analyses associated with that one would be to continue to provide a wholesale relationship on a fiber to the premise application and then it also as i indicated considers us becoming that retail provider of services of internet services coupled with the deployment of the fiber optic assets to the fiber to the premise so the proposals that we did seek were to perform that business plan and do it in such a way that it could be certified and presented to a c p a firm for certification as well as providing an engineering plan for the deployment and engineering survey which would give us a engineering plan for on a macro level the actual final deployment product of how the broadband infrastructure would be deployed within our service territory so obviously we're very excited about you know being at this point there's been a lot of discussion in the community that's helped us move to this point i want to think becky lehmann is also in the audience tonight our technology director at the also want to recognize that dean whitaker is also in the audience  been a lot of interested people in the community that have been working with our staff as well to help understand the demand for some of these services and also  of those discussions as well so we're very excited to be here tonight were you know the product should this you know move forward tonight is about a three month endeavor for the completion of this  work will be working quickly to try to wrap up the contract but we'll have data coming back in for both the pilot as well as the business plan some time near the wrapping up of our winter season so that we can continue the conversation on the next steps for potential deployment of the fiber optic network you know this spring this coming spring so with that again we went out with a scope to work for these services to three firms we had two responses c t c technology and energy out of kensington maryland was the low responsible bit are there at a price of forty four thousand five hundred dollars we've had a lot of experience with c t c in the past both through  the industry seminars and workshops that we've been at c t c is a regular face there and a speaker at a number of those events as well as on our automated metering infrastructure deployment not only do they do fiber consulting but they do consulting in that area as well they were the consultant that helped us with the latest selection you know of our metering solution that we are deploying currently and we're very happy with their work so specifically what's in front of you this evening is a recommendation to authorize the mayor and up the city clerk to sign contract with c t c technology in energy in the amount of forty four thousand five hundred dollars with a contingency of four thousand dollars pending the final approvals to form by the city attorney i'd be happy to answer any questions that you have or we have any questions or this is like the one missing link that business people will say that's missing that they would love to have is high speed internet and i know kansas city have done amazing things because they won the google contest which seems to be kind of like they just wanted a place with the country but anyway and then chattanooga got in on the federal stimulus package with their creative reading of how to get that kind of money  so we don't have any big bundle of gifting or money to do this with but it does sound like it is it is definitely worth the journey to find out what that investment would be and if it would be have profitable thing for us to pursue it right correct and i also think that you know this is as you mentioned before that this is a key differentiator and one of the reasons it's been a priority of the council and of the board to move this forward is that you know this is that thing that's going to differentiate communities those that have it versus the those that don't and the opportunities that it provides in terms of entrepreneurial businesses you know access to learning in different ways access you know who knows what the market yields when you have this available you know all kinds of things that you wouldn't even have conceived of being possible you know start happening and so it's that thing that you know really is a differentiator in but you know this business plan will help be able to show you know what the financial wherewithal of the plan in the deployment would be so it obviously is a prudent step in that even though we did something four years ago technology has continued to evolve the world is also continue to evolve where i talked about triple play before this is really focused on more of a single play offering as we find more and more people are shifting from cable t v lineups to on demand services as people are switching from you know land based phones to cellular phones you know that this is that thing that's going to provide that high speed data connectivity that can be used for many things including video or voice over ip solutions but we're really providing that fast play is really where we believe the future is going yet so it sounds like it's good to wait for years even though it was hard to wait for years because it defined what would be most profitable in the long run and also that viber optic cable you said doesn't get outdated it's the way it's connected to things current that changes so it's a good investment yeah and you know i know you know that we're not you know we were studying we were you know evaluating you know the next ups we also were working we worked at doing some things differently with the assistance of born counsel on our rate structures for our business community that have allowed us you know two years ago we only had fourteen new hook ups this year we had fifty new hook ups you know it is a million dollar a year revenue business as it stands today so it's not like broadband is doing nothing for the electric utility it's a net positive impact for the electric utility which financially hosts the broadband utility but what we've been doing is really kind of watching you know what's been unfolding in the marketplace from a data connectivity standpoint while we've been having conversations yet in the community and so we think it is a prudent has been approved process and this is a good step and that that except to kind of really explore what is possible to do in a city but i think one of my first meetings you presented on that triple play package what are we going to do with this broad bad thing what are we going to do with this fiber and  that was about six years ago and i just kind of latched onto that and have been annoying the crap out of people ever since yourself this council included  and i just i really appreciate kind of the just putting you know my annoyance is for the last couple of years and you know the patience from the community members dean and dan in the rest of the people on it on the community team this has a potential to really redefine who we are as a city and i say that in the in the way that cities haven't been around in this capacity for very long only a hundred years and it goes back to what do we do really well we provide infrastructure really really well and the reason we can live in a city is because of one really important reason is because we have clean clean drinking water and a way to get rid of the waste water we have is very basic utility that we seem to forget that we didn't have that one hundred years ago so in the same way clean water redefined what a city is and with city does that's what i think access to information can be in terms of education in terms of how we how we work and how people work across across the coast and in between so i've been so excited about this and i'm excited that we have a business plan moving forward and we have someone to come on who is who is here to help us redefine this to look at the engineering that we have to look at a pilot to explore and experiment test i don't think we could do this without b p w and we i know we couldn't do this for the p w so it was we have just this amazing asset on electric on water and now with the fiber broadband and this potential to really redefine who we are and who we're going to be in the twenty first century so i i couldn't be more thrilled and indeed anyone else claims that was with consent and i'm sorry there's that these donations be accepted with appreciation in expression of gratitude be forwarded to the said don't what is the mr mayor i want to introduce gentlemen here surely representing the recommended term for the design of civic center place first some background the civic center places a new terminology to recognize that with the improvement of the community between the downtown and the waterfront it's important to recognize not only the building known as the civic center and its renovation but also the property around it and hence the word place  this project has been discussed a number of times and most recently involving what has been a very generous gift that was announced on june thirtieth by then m more frequent basis and in other ways benefit the community yet what is be clear and we want to make sure everyone realizes this is his is not intended to hurt the farmer's market in fact the opposite is true it's intended to enable even better and greater things for the farmer's market so with that background the city council considered a request for qualification process to hire him all type dissimilarity design team that could encompass all kinds of disciplines from parking to outdoor markets to architecture and engineering and everything associated with the building and the environment around it that processes to one hundred some entities being contacted to see if they'd like to be collaborate in some part or form or shape on the team nine proposals were received and a selection committee was established by the city council to review those proposals and members of the committee were a council that team met on a number of occasions over half a dozen involving interviews and site visits and narrowed down a recommendation for edgewater resources as the lead  firm for tonight's recommendation water resources will be partnering with g m b of the local engineering an architectural firm as well as project for public spaces in new york from a specialize in outdoor markets walker consulting  specializes in parking as well as our very own little book communities by design phil meyer and also bill johnson who will be conducting what's known as a step zero in that process to make sure there's there's a perfect orientation and no missteps as to what has taken place before so before us is edgewater resources inc and that partnership i want to mention that water is no stranger to the city they have worked with us they completed the recreation five year parks master plan several years ago they did the design work for the traffic calming which is under construction right now they provide a consulting on water front and how that could connect better to downtown long term project manager will be greg way camp from that firm he is unable to be here tonight he's working on something similar in milwaukee however  appreciate the opportunity to work in the city of holland and i'm roger a principal with edgewater resources and is the team has already been entered introduced with g m b project for public spaces walker parking sultans and also bill johnson and phil myer just quickly i laid a couple of projects that were examples i think talked about by the selection committee this is a thirty first street harbor in chicago it was one hundred  million dollar project brought in on time and budget a very large public lab aeration effort here the conflict was parking public space in how do we pay for it and after over a year of planning and discussions  says this is actually a picture of a parking garage for both winter storage of boats for revenue generation and cars underneath it and then a much improved public space on top and also a very active playground and it would create a win win situation that would be our goal here is to create a win win situation in this project another project we completed in st joe is a construction of a thirty million dollars hotel marina and key part of that is point to it all the way around the site goes into the golf course into downtown st joe so that's a real sorry and so that's that that's that space right through here and that that was all lot of effort to get state historic preservation office development ideas for food and dining on the waterfront public promenade and so forth and we came up with the creative idea of having a lift that actually brings the roof up in the summer so you can have plan secondly the public participation process and thirdly the schedule so the goals in the plan you know are scope of work and in this essence is to create a conceptual plan for the renovation and redevelopment of the civic center and the surrounding areas between seventh and ninth and pine and maple more specifically however the goal of the project is to work with the community to pair of conceptual planned it sheaves the following six goals first develop a plan that is flexible and adaptable by creating spaces that serve multiple purposes over the course of any given day throughout the week over all four seasons and ultimately flexible to respond to future development activity in the western gateway secondly create a project that complements eighth street to the east and serves as a catalyst for growth to the west by making the civic center place an active space every day of the week third is we want to engage with the farmers market vendors and management to help the market provide more offerings and take the next step to become more active more often force develop a recreational program that recognizes the values and needs of the full breadth of the holland community in terms of age income race and abilities fifth create a space becomes part of a living community with an evolving and broad range of residence that also expresses the authentic character and history of holland and last and often the most important we need to plan that works within a budget that is to be determined in a phasing program as appropriate by the city council second big part of the project is the participation process in our approach to that in continuous involvement of the public from the very beginning of the process through its completion we take the process very seriously in one gauge the public partners in the design process which will be open and transparent to me the community to multiple stakeholder workshops in six public meetings throughout the process as well as workshops with farmers market vendors will be working closely with the city planning team as well as film bill johnson to provide continuity with all existing in future and previous planning efforts so we can focus on new ideas envisioning without reinventing the wheels the final areas our project schedule the project schedule begins immediately and with stakeholder interviews of the initial cities place vision meeting will occur in november followed by farmers market and recreational programming efforts in december the interactive design its will take place in january with consist concept refinement and development of the draft consensus plan taking place in february the final refinements in presentation for final plan for proved by city council is scheduled for march so it's a very active program but the goal is to get this under construction by summer so that's a very quick highlight and we're excited to be here all right thank you for that so if i may i'll just for the record make sure the public is aware of the other there are four other proposals that submitted pricing they range from six hundred ninety thousand dollars to sixty eight thousand four hundred seventy five edgewater resources was the second lowest and came in one hundred fifty nine thousand eight hundred they are recommended as the best for all the reasons you mentioned plus they had the second most number of it's an exciting day there are a lot of binders of civic center committees that have been born and filed over the years and we all agree we need to have a redone civic center i'm glad that we're not only talking about a building this time that we're thinking about the whole civic center place and we're thinking of it from the fifty thousand view foot view with downtown and the waterfront and all of all of the good that exists around it so we really are excited for this process and for the amount of public sure rats that are going to be a part of it stakeholder meetings know those are the places where the big ideas come from and now are excited to to have bill johnson and phil meyer involved as we begin the process so that we don't have to reinvent the wheel with what we have found out in the past and now go from leave we're very grateful for your firm's involvement and for the way you've cleared your schedule to be able to be cell intrinsically involved in this over the next year thank you very much we'll see a lot ok well i would echo that i think we are at a interesting time we've long had the goal of stretching our downtown towards the water and i think this is going to be a key first step in doing that we look forward to casting that vision and moving forward with it so let's go look please call the yeah that's correct i spoke with the staff at treadway about the details we need to take care to document that there should be back before you next me except just get one in relation to the civic center placed as we discussed briefly upstairs i try to resources will be back here on the twenty eighth next week for a study session in this room to review the street and plan which they haven't completed yet but have been working on as well while they're here if time permits we'd love to have their conversation on the parameters by which council would like to set for four of the bookends or the the maximum whatever you want to call it relation to some budgeting thinking for the civic center place so it works for a council that's what we'll do put at the end of the agenda also there is a steering committee appointment m involving the selection team as well as kind of a handoff so council members who are part of the steering committee or were part of the selection team if november tenth at seven p m do not work for you could you please let me know that in the meeting otherwise i'd like to get that information out to everyone as soon as possible the next is there is a job or twenty seventh joint planning commission and historic preservation meeting at four p m here in this ro associated with the washington school possible redevelopment and that will have a lot of interest for the community and want everyone to know that lastly leaf pickup will continue a bit longer this year till november fourteenth thank you all or eight hundred communications from the mayor again would remind you that lots of information about the city and the various departments are available on our web site a good idea to just take a look at the website every couple of days we have news that rotates through on the home page there's information about things like leave pick up your schedule for overnight parking or other things that are going on downtown or other places in town that's a good place to look for information elsewhere on the web site you can find all sorts of information and ways to get in touch with us here representatives we certainly encourage you to do that so make use of that that resource in the web site i would also like to remind everybody that  weeks from yesterday is our city election we have races for the mayor's seat for the fourth ward council seat and for one at large seat and  we encourage everyone who is registered and eligible to exercise their right to vote then with regard to the  place steering committee i would say we were overwhelmed by volunteers to participate lots and lots of interest in this and if if we accepted everybody we would have a committee that was so large it would not be manageable so regrettably we did have to to make some cuts and some selections but i've come up with the following fifteen names who will be   board member or nathan box and from city council jay peters nancy who are brian birch and david hookes trip and the chairperson will be for the committee will on june thirtieth twenty sixteen one reappointment to the parks and rec commission to william man a key for a three year term to expire september one twenty eighteen and t robert van de camp also on the parks and rec committee for a three year term also to expire on september one twenty eighteen and i would make these in the no i can't i would request that we would have a motion and support for these appointments mr merrett just point of clarification rattling both a and c with one motion is that what your intent is intent is  is that our right yet that is fine if somebody wants to handle them separately then then it should be but if if everybody is in agreement they can be handled as one motion to accept or to accept the anything that they would like to go over yes nancy diane hearing this donation is amazing to me and i don't does that happen in other cities that heads of corporations donated acreage to the city know that's a wonderful gesture but i think i remember one time yeah i did and i know his philanthropy doesn't stop there they often have things for people suffering from diseases or whatever with his with his business and it's it's just so inspiring to work in a community with giving hearts like that to reach out and think first of well we are going to use it so let's get it amazing and the digraph nature center another over five hundred fifty dollars that people have donated to make their community nature center better and whether it comes in five dollars or three and a half acres of property are all reflects that same kind of attitude and it's wonderful to be a part of a team in a community that ca gary then i believe we have a request from the city attorney to go into a closed session to reveal property acquisition that's correct he's here julian to see the action coming out of