well good evening ladies and gentlemen welcome to this regularly scheduled meeting of the city council or second meeting for the month of march we would  extra your clan parents mayor we have a quorum mayor pro tem thank you we will go about our usual activities here on the first two which are to open our meeting we have an opening please pray with me father in heaven we come before you tonight eager with the prospect of spring and the renewal that comes with it we pray father as we contemplate this agenda tonight that you'll give us wisdom as we address numerous items many of which represent renewal in and of themselves as we take on the work of the city and so we ask that  deliberations would keep in mind those in the city that that seek due diligence from their elected representatives we ask that that you  give a covering to all of hollands residents in our or nearby neighbors and father tonight we lift a special prayer for the whole family as they mourn the loss of their son and i pray that they would find a comfort that only you can deliver in the days ahead and that they might find peace in knowing your love as we carry on a night father let us seek justice love mercy and walk humbly with you as we go about the business of the city i pray these things in jesus name a unions through the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands right nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all the first item on our agenda the saving is the consent agenda and the consent agenda is made up of items which are considered to be routine in nature and which have been discussed by counsel in prior study sessions our intent is to take all of those items that are on the agenda and marked with an asterisk with a single vote and  know what is involved in that we first need to hear what items are on the consent agenda and following that we will give an opportunity for writers to be remote so and if you would a letter received from residents of apple during assisted living center in results of the storm sewer work by facility fourteen a one to approve a contract with g l noble than in the amount of forty one thousand two hundred dollars for engineering analysis software integration item fourteen e two to approve a contract with franklin halward uk company for the total amount of forty one thousand two hundred fifty dollars for the wastewater treatment plant sedimentation basin one rebuild pending approval asked a form by the city attorney fourteen eighty three to approve the amendment to that and our supply contract and reimbursement for the needed a in our facility changes for the total amount not to exceed four hundred  fifty seven thousand six hundred dollars pending approval as to form by the city attorney item fourteen a for to approve the sale and purchase of renewable energy credits and adopt resolute and to adopt a resolution to allow for the sale with j renewable energy resources and authorized the general city mayor general manager to purchase of replacement with the michigan renewable energy credits in the amount of one hundred thousand dollars annual and sale in the amount of five hundred thousand and fifteen item fourteen be to an item nineteen b to accept in place on first reading proposed ordinance amendments to rezone three zero two and three zero eight east seventh street one seventy fairbanks avenue in the north thirty feet of three o seven east eighth street from our three residential district a c two highway commercial district but the final reading scheduled for april one two thousand and fifteen item fourteen d two to approve the two thousand and fifteen tulip fourteen dash for point three appeals an administrative variance is scheduled for final at the april one two thousand and fifteen council meeting i don't fourteen one point two two a mutual for your way navigation eastment agreement rice of middle of the great lakes restoration initiative grant application for the purchase and planting of trees planted in management and education and training of the city's urban forest fourteen eed two point two to authorize the amendment of the ninth street reconstruction budget to include thirty nine thousand six hundred dollars for snow melt design services and construction review and approve the agreement with g m b for professional services to object approval us to form by the city attorney fourteen eat two point three two accept a drainage utility easement with midwest communications eighty one central avenue subject to approval as to form by the city attorney and to submit said document for recording i imported a two point four to approve a construction agreement with c s i s railroad and authorized payment of the required permit deposit in the amount of eighty eight thousand seven hundred fifty one dollars for the central african struction project subject approval us to form by the city attorney  fourteen each two point five two adopt a resolution referring to the city manager to refer for the city manager for study and report the eighth street in colombia snowmelt improvement project item fourteen eat two point six two seven except as information the act fifty one map annual update from the michigan department of transportation i report honey three point one to authorize the finance director to request an account with the strike with stripe dot com for an am line donations for the how unused connections program i don't fourteen eat three point two two accept a bed with crown motors for a two thousand and fifteen card sir alex in the amount of twenty thousand seven hundred forty six dollars and accept a bid from barber for forty two thousand and sixteen for fusion at a cost of eighteen thousand four hundred four dollars for the replacement of two detective vehicles and to amend the budget by one hundred fifty dollars to allow for this purchase item fourteen e three point three two except the bid submitted by eight asked construction equipment in the amount of one hundred forty nine thousand five hundred dollars for a john deere front end loader for the transportation services department and to amend the centralized vehicle equipment and budget for s don't fourteen eat three point four two except a bed submitted by plane service company in the amount of fifty one thousand four hundred ninety dollars for the placement of the city hall cooling tower interim and the municipal capital improvement fine by me look reallocation farms and fourteen the five point two to prove the when my island gardens position of a development manager and to approve the newly created position two thousand and fifteen thank you for the items that are on the consent to gender and again we are intending to deal with all of them in one vote so there is something that anyone wants removed and if anyone from the audience or a member of council asks for it to be removed we will do that and the item will then be taken in its regular sequence on the agenda so at this time is there anyone in the audience is there any audience that would like an item removed from the concert agenda s in the audience members of councils or any item that you would like remove from the concert your honor proton i would request to remove item fourteen easy one point   at this time i'd like to ask her director of information technology services to give us a quick rundown of what the changes are  help people can use the great thank you as you can see on your screens and hope for the folks at home can see we recently went and completely redid the way our website looks and the way our navigation works we we had some feedback over the past several years since we went to last review with some suggestions on how we could do things a little bit better and make it easier for people to find things on our website the process that we went through to get this point was we convened a group of staff included several members of city council in that group and we went out and we looked at what other municipalities were really doing well with our website you know we looked at places like new take ten see the church in wyoming these different places that were out there just to see how are these people really do and doing things the way that that that their citizens need them to do so we've been through several different iterations of the website and what you see on your screens right now is that the final the final piece of how we got there you can see we've got a lot of information that's really readily available directly on the home page on the key links in the left hand side that's going to be tweaked a time as well as we look at our analytics we take that where people go on our websites very seriously and we move we make sure that we try to get the good stuff out there one of the bigger things you'll notice also is we have a very visual web site we have about five different images that circle through each time you visit the site very graphic intensive the biggest piece that i think you'll want to notice is the mega what we call the mega navigation and that is as you scroll over these these items of the top your screen you can you can find different dropdown menus the big addition is the how do i section of thought those are important for visitors to our website how do i find how do i find maps how do i find job openings how do i find meetings how i learn about different things how do i pay for  i apply so when somebody comes to our website for the first time they want to pay a little whatever they want to do they want to pay a traffic ticket they want to find information on their taxes it's right there in the how do i section you know we broke it out again in the government residents business and visitors with the key things that we think people that are going to want to find out about holland here but again it's it's what we think is a much more modern site at this point this is this is the latest and greatest very graphic intensive of the site is responsive and what i beam mean by responsive is the website itself we should talk about mobile web sites so if you're on a device like a cell phone you get the site as you know with tablets difference i screens different size you know that i phone six is much bigger i phone for a smaller this site actually can detect the size of the screen that you're viewing it on and we'll adjust the way it navigates accordingly to that let me see if i can just show you real quick how that kind of works you can see the navigation change from the top bar navigation when we make the screen slightly smaller on what you're doing it ok so all same information is there just a little different look trying to make it better user experience for everybody texan first order of business is a tax abatement and we have a report on that yesterday this is a tax of ever quest from challenge manufacturing company one three four seven washington avenue challenge on your factoring is an employee owned company been in business and one nine hundred eighty one it's an automotive manufacturer for well that assemblies and engineered metal formed parts it is for a request to add a fourteen thousand six hundred forty foot square foot addition in the amount of six hundred eighteen thousand dollars eight hundred twenty one dollars six eight hundred twenty one for land building improvements twenty five new jobs are expected to be created within a two year period and it's a range of metal parts this most recent addition will allow us to increase our production capacity necessitated by the recent word of several new jobs  customers through relocating of storage and staging items will be able to increase our process and production flow and with these new jobs we'll be adding jobs here in holland challenge continues to invest here and how appreciative that what so what's the total number of employees the two have at the holland plant now  eight hundred sixty five and we hope to add about twenty five in the next couple of years within the next couple of years right well that's considerably more than what you started with vacuum when you all right thank you right very much the other members of the audience who wish to address this item seeing none i will close the public hearing time this is an annual that is handled through the clerk's office and i am delighted to say we do not have anybody on this list so we will not have a public hearing that everybody has  by whiteman any questions or comments from members of council  right that gets us all the way down to my right over the page so i get us down to wor correct however for those still in the audience and those at home we do want to give you just a quick overview on what the recommendation is and the process for table in there for review at your next council meeting before you tonight is a recommendation that city council recorded they can act yvel a person currently owns the property just north of sixteenth street or try to pull it up on the screen for you here just north of sixteenth street just east of hinds which is where the red arrow is right now on the screen this is an old marina that they every developed into or the process every developing into waterfront living ice part of this redevelopment they're going to be removing the existing docks and then stalling to new docks for their community members of that waterfront residential development to utilize the placement of the easternmost dock is going to be awful close to our riparian rights along property that we own just east of hinds for them to be able to safely navigate and access the proposed docks there indeed an easement from the city over our table it to next regular meeting and that you hopefully will have time at your study session next week to review this a little more and death all right we did talk about it briefly  by birth your own history books i would move that we postpone this item to our report first and i'm not kidding business meeting so that we could have our opportunity next week at our study session to opportunity for comment or discussion with boies vote or roll call you can do this motion by voice vote all right all in favor please signify by saying i think all right in the oppose same side letter is tabled to or april one meeting that then gets us to all the way down i believe to fourteen by that one gifts the city managers office is pleased to report the following gives the cell press collar ship received recreation office in the amount of ten dollars of website anonymous donations in the amount of one hundred dollars in workforce employment specialist in the amount of five hundred dollars parks and recreation for the labor day boardwalk impact pancake breakfast received seven hundred twenty dollars donation for more force employment specialist parks and recreation for the sponsorship of the banner program and ammu complex also received a donation in the amount of three hundred dollars from the workforce employment specialist parks and recreation received another gift for the quitman scholarship program from workforce employment specialist in the amount of three thousand dollars the digraph nature center for land improvements were received a couple of donations one is from the community foundation of the holland zealand area in the amount of three thousand three hundred  and run time vander guy in the amount of two hundred fifty dollars human relations department received a three hundred dollars donation for the martin luther king day and also for the multicultural of the people of our community who was just announced as the code officer of the year in west michigan hi dan of course is in our building department and is quite busy at this time of year i also want to congratulate david banner hyde who is our  senior city assessor who is retiring after thirty six years and his open house will be in this room at three o'clock on friday and he would like to say happy retirement today  we also want to now nce that the cities are working in cooperation with the public works on an experiment involving l e d street lights if you live on thirty second street or black bass you may have gotten a flyer in your door we received about twenty of those back the eighty seven percent are very positive about early d street lights both the fact that they provide more light they are feel safer and they save energy of course dramatic energy two thirds so i just want to announce to the community that they harbor public works is looking at expanding those streetlights to the entire community beginning with the major thoroughfares and then into neighborhoods are it's a white light as opposed to the yellow which we're custom to the high pressure sodium so i want to add one to one of the comments on the on the surveys was they liked the light but they wish they'd known in advance so i should have led with that that's why i wanted to make this announcement here so anyone watching is is aware am i if there's some issue that comes up things really communicate with us as well and the last thing i'd like to say is that the snow is melting and that means that ho connections is gearing up and youth connections is the third year of a program to employ at risk youth to do things that need to get done in the community and for businesses in a way that most other  it's hard to get done otherwise these youth are not only hard workers they're extremely appreciative we have a partnership with the state ministries michigan works with the manpower and together with our human resources  officials we make this happen every year the first summer a youth the second summer this is our third summer our goal is two hundred forty years there's only one thing stopping us and that's employers last year we had hear all the positive testimonials i do want to ask anyone listening that to succeed in this project which also means we continue on with the last ten years  reduced police crime rate we want to continue that trend and even go lower it's always helpful to have a youth employment so if anyone is listening and they know of an employer or someone who might be could contact us there's a website holland  connections dot com or they can contact my office and let us know where that would be the youth can do everything from shipping and receiving to construction like construction janitorial grounds maintenance auto office and clerical cash computers connery advertising there really is a two page list here of what they can do and what they frankly enjoy a great deal doing so with that i ask everyone watching to think of some employer who could use some hand work and please contact us and that will make all the difference and move play two hundred forty youth and make a better community as well thank you brings us down to communications format encourages visit to visit the website all of our contact information is available there and if you know something that you would like us to know i would invite you to go there and find out how to get in touch with us very briefly ryan mentioned the snow going away and with the snow going away it uncovers a lot of things first of all the beauty the snow the flowers popping up the renewal of the earth but it also uncovers a lot of trash time to think about that but close again so as you're walking around getting out and soaking up your vitamin d from the sun take a bag along with it as you're walking down the sidewalk you see a cup you see a piece of paper you see a tin can whatever the case may be pick it up put it in the bag don't throw it down put the proper traffic down or make the city look a whole lot better a whole like quicker and we're having a once in a generation party and the twenty first step april that tuesday a little over five weeks away at one thirty with the groundbreaking for the brand new b p w plant at the howland community energy park so try to put that on your calendar and it just be a great thing to have all kinds of people out there to share in the excitement of this that only happens once in a generation  when one's going towards motions or resolutions from council members saying done i think we have only one more thing to do