good evening we're glad to see that you're here this evening and care about what's going on in the city of holland we realize that there are a lot of great things that we can enjoy here on a daily basis but it doesn't happen easily takes a lot of work on the fire on the part of a lot of a people a lot of dedicated staff and a lot of decisions so we're glad you're part of that process to see thing could you please call the role for us please will start with the opening prayer that i will lead and then will follow with the pledge of allegiance will be honored if you would join us by standing please join us in prayer i have the father we thank you for this evening we thank you for your tender and strong hand in this world thank you for the way that we watch  orchestrate weather situations and feelings in this world we are so grateful that you are sovereign and even when we don't understand things we can trust you we pray lord in this evening you will give us wisdom to do things that will be for the betterment of this community for the good of its citizenry and that we will honor you as a city on a hill we thank you for this privilege and responsibility we pray lord that you will help us to care for those around us that we will have the time that we will take to listen to understand to walk with people that you will give us the heart that will make this community one that stands out for you yes call this in your name she says name amen 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  thank you we will then go and with the consent agenda mr wagner we will read a list of items that we will handle with one motion as counsel however there could be an item in that list that you came here to specifically address if that's the case at the end of his reading i will open it up and if anyone in the audience wants to they can come forward to the podium give us your name and address and tell us which item you would like taken off the consented genda and then we will put handle it as it appears on your agenda so please give us that consent agendas or item for a to excuse the absence of council members lim and peter's item approve the minutes of the january twenty seventh advance and february seventh two thousand eight hundred regular reading item four see to accept and file executed oaths of office from various  boards and commissions items twelve b one and seventeen eighty two except in place on first reading proposes only ordinance text amendments to section thirty nine dash sixty two thirty nine dash two eighty four and thirty nine dash three twenty two to clarify off street parking requirements in r t r and edi zone districts within the central neighborhood district final adoption schedule for the march seventh two thousand and eighteen regular council meeting items twelve b two seventeen b to accept in place on first reading propose on ordinance text amendments to sections thirty nine dash to thirty nine dash four thirty nine dash four point one thirty nine dash ten thirty nine dash seventeen thirty nine dash nineteen thirty nine dash forty five thirty nine dash forty eight thirty nine dash seventy four thirty nine dash eighty four thirty nine dash one twenty eight thirty nine dash one thirty thirty nine dash one thirty point one thirty nine dash one thirty two thirty nine dash one sixty six thirty nine dash one eighty six twenty nine dash one ninety two point one thirty nine dash two hundred thirty thirty nine dash two fifty two thirty nine dash thr one thirty nine dash three fifteen thirty nine dash three forty one thirty nine dash three fifty two and thirty nine dash three fifty seven and the title for division eight of article six of chapter thirty nine final doctrine scheduled for the march seventh two thousand and eighteen regular council meeting item twelve b three and seventeen c to accept in place on first reading proposed text amendments to section thirty nine dash eleven in regards to fences in residential zone districts and traffic visibility with final adoption schedule for the march seventh two thousand and eighteen regular council meeting item twelve before and seventeen d to accept in place on first reading proposed  zoning ordinance final adoption schedule for the march seventh two thousand and eighteen regular council meeting i don't twelve b five and seventeen easy to accept them place on first reading proposed t amendments to section thirty nine dash two of the zoning ordinance with final adoption scheduled for the march seventh two thousand and eighteen regular council meeting by m twelve d one to refer claims filed against the city to the cit insurance carrier and city attorney for consideration item twelve d two to approve the two thousand and eighteen tulip time fireworks permit subject to compliance with the conditions as  public safety services department item twelve e one point one two approve the proposed no parking on the south side of east eighth street for a distance of approximately ninety five feet east of columbia avenue as recommended by the city's traffic committee item twelve one point two to approve the preliminary engineering for the sixth street reconstruction project to reitman and associates incorporated in the amount of eighty seven thousand eight hundred four dollars and snowmelt consulting to g m be in the amount of a eleven thousand dollars and adopt the proposed budget with allocations from the st capital improvement fund and the municipal capital improvement funds subject to approval as deformed by the city attorney i didn't try the four point one to declare various technology services equipment a surplus  authorized staff to dispose of said items as indicated item twelve six point two two approved submittal of a grant application to the holland junior welfare league in the amount of twelve hundred dollars to allow city schools involved in diversity rocks the books subject to approval as the former the city attorney item twelve east six point three to approve the advance priorities set by coun that's it thank you sir now perhaps one of those items you wanted to specifically talk about tonight if that's the case please come up to the podium give us your name and address and tell us which one of those items you would like take it off consent and then we handle it as it appears on the agenda that you get back seeing now when we will move to council is there any item that any council member would like to take off the consent agenda move and then to the staff report please be handled by brian white and director of transportation public school there in the corner basically we had sent out a few weeks back notices to the neighborhood about proposing no parking on the north side of twentieth street from two point five hundred twenty feet east of the intersection we did get some feedback on that both from the school as well as from residents on the south side of twentieth  have not received any input from that based on the additional notification so the recommended they should before you is to go ahead with that posting on the so it sounded like both the neighbors and the school was interested in the safety of the children be able to get right out of the car and inside lock and get into the school instead of having to cross perhaps right yes that's far and like a wise change thank you for my name is david van dyke i live it to seventy west twenty of which would be directly across the street from the school and i really like the idea of there's no parking it is great to me my only concern is i've gotten i've got no all the letter i and i was considering i was wondering when is that no parking i mean i got that official obviously unofficial would be what was printed in the sentinel which was stating that it would happen during how in language academy pick up and drop off times but another time in the article it stated it would do it with during school days so yeah i mean that i do not want it that it i can never park in front of my house yeah yeah i understand that's what i was wondering because it went to state there is no limitation as to when that is yet correct question and that is that's a good point because that is that was the intent i don't think it was written up that way so that was an oversight on my part  but i do believe that there was the restriction only during those specific times of school pick up and drop out so if that could be amended and again i apologize for not following through on that that was over so maybe we should read notice the neighbors with the time bracket they were talking about we certainly could yes the notice that you received that did not have time specific requirements and no i have not seen anything in terms of what was sent to me from the city clerk or what was for tonight's meeting that i printed off from the agenda or anything ok anything that i have had even in the letter that was  for for the notice to do we have enough time to do to the next business meeting or yeah i want to be specific even more specific because a notification yeah i think we can do it at the next meeting we can get the notices out yeah i think  opposing sign that carries thank you mr van dyke appreciate you coming thank you brian thank you for working with all the neighbors and all the different levels with us ok now we're opening to public comment this is a time where you can address city council about whatever it is is on your heart and so you're welcome to come to the podium give us your name and address and you may speak for five minutes there's a green light that says means go there's a yellow light that means one minute left and a red light that means your five minutes are up or officially open for public  rail amtrak here in port here michigan are planning some additional trains for the holland station and from chicago durning and also they're going to be confirming some unique things first of all pier michigan day union station so we're going to do is doing this is something i've been pushing hard as i served on the appropriations committee because we have a strains with our destination here and graps and holland and we take the passengers to chicago and that's where they spend their money i've been advocating can we have the desks the originating the train out of chicago coming into holland and grabs and that way they spend their money here and help support our local businesses so with this or hopefully that we're going to have t additional trains running out each saturday with i would say one one train for each of the saturdays starting early in the morning chicago coming here to lansing that would be on may fifth and may fifteenth saudis are still tentative but yet we're working quickly on this and hopefully you can confirm this now the reason i come forward here is this i believe is a great opportunity for us here in west michigan right here in holland especially the with the so called i call to have time to the possibility during the summer months during our tourist season that we could start reginae some those trains and make them you know start in chicago come up here and bring those visitors and spend their money which would be great for home community and as you see in the if i want to highlight that photo there that's three years ago when we every year we go to chicago those are seven transportation committee on amtrak and i actually put my dutch costume on the road the amp got on board  and actually a amtrak official took that photo and that started i think that was one of the starting points of creating this idea of they took time to train because they said someone could walk around union stations in chicago when shoes on there's some and some incentive and so with that there if you had any questions i feel free to answer him but my purpose here tonight is to inspire each of you please get behind this let's work with  dot heffner is the director rails and we did feel the strains we need to feel the strains because not just for the tool time but the other possibilities because i've been working hard on that and i cannot do it all by myself but i need use you people as leaders in the community to assist me on this and i believe that where they have the assets right here i know of encouraging mayor to bore to work with amtrak i think you have had some discussions of those attended some seminars on that process because no other beautiful thing the hollin is you have a walkable community just think of this where your stations located you can it's almost some of the chicago one of much more i called more beautiful scale if you come in the community you can get off the train you can walk to the community the only problem is the schedule so if we can get this moving and it's small by the apple i think good things can come forward and i'll continue to push for this you know worked hard and hopefully i can build  leaders among you to help bring this proposal and this test case forward so thank you very much thank you gradually really appreciate your creative advocacy boy sometimes you gotta go outside the box there was a sacrifice union station you know it's something quite unique so you get those stairs he was like well ok we thought we had a unique who's this guy with the word shoes so i'll leave that off in the image of thank you roger i really appreciated you coming into talk with me a little over three years ago about how you have been working with amtrak and how you want to get more ridership into highland and it really opened my eyes to it and so when i was a couple national meetings i would as you said work with amtrak and keep selling them on unbelievably walkable you get off the train and you are in a downtown and it's just amazing so amtrak is doing a lot of things with transporting people and bicycles and encouraging people to drive on a vacation just go from stack to stap and they had like a twenty student who took a whole trip from coast to coast and developed a video of how great it was to have their bike and just to ride the train and howland is so well positioned to be a part of that kind of journey up into michigan and back in the chicago market of course is limitless and so i was in a meeting with sally the kiters and she mentioned to going to in april to be at union station they have these beautiful brochures with the to look upon them to get everybody and of course it doesn't have our model but you know we'll do the tulips you can promote it was a seed planted three years ago i was really surprised that sometimes amtrak doesn't move this fast on issues but they're changing and also they're cutting the travel time and was and they're being more our customer where we spend money and  spends money on a rail line and among other colleagues of mine too says we need to return those dollars and michigan not take those dollars out of michigan so absolutely it can kind of sense of change and it is leadership there and so we really any other public comment now ok look close the public comment then and move on to the adoption of ordinances so we would need this presented the ordinance amendment for the park parking in force in force men downtown and development authority that would be from ron i believe yes thank you mayor under our current ordinance structure the police and force the parking ordinances and michigan law now allows us to the city to allow non police personnel to do parking enforcement if they're properly trained by the police department and if if council adopts ordinance and resolution to allow that to happen the proposal does allow that to happen and proposes to have a d d a person out trained to do parking enforcement for restricted parking violations in the primary is focused on the d d a area but it could be city wide ok great thank you any comments or questions from counsel we spoke up stairs in regard to this person being trained for conflict resolution and could our city assistant manager speak to  sure absolutely these individuals would be part of the same training that we have provided to our volunteers of policing that are already out there writing traffic ticket or ups are not rather to the traffic tickets parking tickets so they go through that same training course and what we normally do is tell them there was any kind of issue with anyone that is argumentative or anything like that to contact i would want to one of our uniformed police officers will show up resolve that issue of of all else fails we restrain them to to walk away and just to get away from that conflicts although they will be trained the same as our volunteers are currently trained and we will be aware when they're out there so we will provide that training the other comments or questions that seems like it's a very reasonable thing that downtown development authority realizes there's a person there and there's a car that's parked incorrectly to be able to just write the ticket rather than calling in someone else makes a lot of sense and a lot more efficient and let the police work on other kinds of more conflict resolution correct yes stuff thank you could you call the recreation digraph teacher center burn the boss a land improvements and fundraising campaign a forty five dollars community foundation of the holland zealand area two hundred dollars fifty dollars p j vende can fifty dollars it's recommended these donations be accepted with appreciation and expression expression of gratitude be forwarded to said donors thank you that was a short communication from a man of few words but that's a good moving and two communications from the mayor we have some mayor appointments and re appointments we want to accept the appointment  bree austin roberts to the neighborhood improvement committee for her first full of full term and that full term will expire in june two thousand and twenty one also sean miller to the brownfield real redevelopment authority for his third full term and that one will expire in june two thousand and twenty one also dale weingarten two the brownfield redevelopment authority for his second full term and that will expire in june two thousand and twenty so it's recommended that city council approve the appointment bree austin roberts to the neighborhood can prove meant committee to replace the vacancy left by linda j cups and the city council approved the reappointment of sean miller to the brownfield redevelopment authority and dale weingarten to the brown talking about fashion as it relates to the women's suffrage a moment movement and i guess there have been like eighteen different hat stores for women in the history of highland downtown and some of that fashion difference kind of started happening with the women's suffrage movement and so they decided to do a whole little fashion show annan and the display about it and it's going to be launching in march one and then they'll have a display at the museum so i think that's kind of a great way to for us to learn about our past and to learn about how things happened in history throughout holland and it's kind of nice to put a fashion twist on it i think people will really like it  and also the latest edition of the peer michigan magazine you know roger mentioned pure michigan is a very nice photo of the beach island state park and i guess pier michigan michigan brought in sixty four and sixty four colorful towels and they set those all out and took a drone video it looks like and this is a really special thing because you download an app and then you put it over this picture and you will be able to have some guy peek out from underneath one of those umbrellas and talk to you it's amazing what you can do in today's world of technology so i think it's the guy that's lying here on the towel who is kind of a spokes person for peer michigan and he'll tell you about how wonderful it is in holland and the beach towns and then there's a two day two page display of the beach as well all howl and then it goes on to describe other towns after that so encouraging people to enjoy the resorting along the along the lake and where else can you do what you can do in michigan where you stop at all these nice little towns and then there's more beach and and of course in holland enjoy great shopping as well so and it's just fun to talk about the beach this time of year isn't it that this will be coming so that's great and of course to look time and their great brochure that's already and all the different holland happenings that  the convention and visitors bureau puts out so we really all want to be promoters of our area and invite people to enjoy all that we have here so we also need communications from council members does anyone have something they would like to share tonight seeing man any motions and resolutions from council members there was one sobering thing today that i attended as a funeral from one of our former council members mark to rw who served the city for a long time and also worked with rest haven many people know their family and his wife roxanne just passed away and she had very early onset alzheimer's and it was at least a ten year journey and i you know we talk so much about relationships and the importance of commitment and all of that and i know mark has been very committed to this community and to all that is is good in it and i also saw as he helped his wife and work through the last decade that kind of love of acceptance and loyalty and in durance and that was reflected in the funeral today he spoke as well as his three children and it was it was very moving the love that she had had for them the life that they had had together and now and all of their commitment to honoring her legacy so i just wanted to publicly acknowledge the commitment of mark to ruin to the city and to his family in this meeting so i wondered if someone reflecting on what's important today thank you