good evening here we are november second the last council meeting before we vote for president of the united states and many other things i'm glad you're here glad you're going to address things on a local level  glad we can have this opportunity that we can be in a free country that we have all these choices so we'll begin as we have with a roll call with an on with things we have done for decades which is an opening prayer which will tonight be led by a council member hook struck and after that we'll have the pledge of allegiance if you could all stand with us if you're a pray with me or we invite your presence here with us as we begin our counsel me this evening let your mercy and grace and guide our spirits in your purpose for creation frame our thoughts and actions guide us to be servants for this community direct us to be vigilant of those things necessary and inspire us with vision and creativity in those things possible protect those who protect us and bless those who serve us we pray one of these items that clerk at a paralysis will be reading that you would like to handle that you come up to the podium i will open it up and you give us your name and address and which item you would like from the consent agenda list and then it will appear in sequence as it's listed on the agenda so we'll begin with and i reading the consented and then i will open it up if you would like to take one of the items off that she mentions please item four eight excuse the absence of council member white men to approve the minutes of the october twelfth study session in october nineteenth two thousand and sixteen regular meeting for c to accept in fire executed those of office from various  and commissions twelve two to accept as information the renewable energy credit sales report as presented twelve b one to accept as information the proposed city master plan schedule a study session for further review and evaluation and then subsequently scheduled for a public hearing and adoption during a future regular maybe twelve ethe re point one seventeen two except in place on first reading of meeting and at the power consumption of alcohol on public property in the application to serve alcohol liquor on public property also be amended twelve point two in seventeen b except in place on first reading the proposed ordinance amendment to section twenty two dash two to reflect the closure of all parks between the hours of eleven pm and six am that person shall be allowed to remain in the parks under special permission and that no person shall enter or stay in any park when closed provided that the provision permit bishan shall not apply to any person to enter any park for the sole purposes of passing through such park with final reading to be held at november sixth sixteen regular council meeting twelve e four point one to schedule a public hearing to consider approval of brownfield plan to renovate properties located at three sixty eight through three eighty west sixteenth street for nov sixteenth at seven p m here at renovate property located at what one fifty four west fifteenth street for the nov sixteenth city council meeting and to instruct the deputy clerk to publish in mail the required notices twelve the four point three to adopt the  delinquent ordinance violations invoices on the winter two thousand and sixteen property tax bills item twelve four point four to approve the interest rate for nan bonded capital improvement special rolls assessment rol and the interest rate on special assignment for the fill in the gap program to be set at two percent effective number two two thousand and sixteen item twelve four point six two of the september two thousand and sixteen monthly financial reports of in item twelve point one to adopt a resolution approving the amended michigan mutual aid box alarm system association agreement and authorized the mayor and deputy clerk to sign any documents related to this matter which have been approved as to form by the city attorney item twelve five point two to adopt a resolution approving the allegan county hazard mitigation plan and authorize the mayor and deputy clerk to sign any documents related to this matter which have been approved by the city attorney located at fifty four west eighth street item twelve east six point three to approve the lease renewal for parking lot with first united methodist church as approved by the downtown development authority septic to approval s to form by the city attorney item twelve point four to approve the cancellation of the nov twenty third city council study session item twelve six point six to approve placing the farmer community neighborhood services department assistant directors position with a new building inspector full time position the upper level of the administrative plan six point seven to schedule a public hearing for december twenty one two thousand and sixteen to sell the city on surplus land located at five ninety five west twenty ninth street twelve east six point eight to approve the proposed two thousand and seventeen priority health illustrated rates as presented for both active and retired nine union employees and approved to enter into agreement with the dental plan of michigan and infant in finish or cobra services subject to approval last a form by the city attorney thank you anna now perhaps there was an item in there that you wanted to talk about in its sequence in the agenda if that's the case please come to the podium give us your name and address and which might hold off that consent agenda meyer i'm here to talk about the master plan would you like me to talk about that very public comment or should i talk about it now but we do run the kind well he certainly would be entitled to have it removed from from the consent agenda but should point out that the recommendation is not on the adoption of the plan tonight recommendations just accept it for information and then to study at a later  seventeen b currents yes madam here yes motion passes thank you now i'd love to have a motion that will help us to suspend the rules to bring item four four point five to the that carries so can we go to that item please wri well as the financial planner who will be making a short presentation but before we begin i wanted you to just see how the project will be financed the total vision is sixteen and a half million but please note on the left that the bond amount is actually going to be limited to ten million the rest is in donations or potential sponsorships to be determined and because of councils decisions in the last couple of weeks can be postponed related to the site  as you might wish over the long haul so ten million is the focus of tonight's conversation that bond you might recall that and you'll see in the resolution that actually listed is thirteen point five six million that's because improvements can also be financed through what we have learned is possible given the environmental work the city has done in the building will do on the building and with snow melt energy conservation bonds the purpose of these bonds is to buy down the interest rate from what might normally be between two three to four percent depending to one percent plus or minus so it has significant advantages to the city in the taxpayers or the next twenty years to use the maximum allocation of these bonds the city was successful and recent reallocation in succeeding to receive this allocation of thirteen point five six million among five others in the state that received  podium and and give you all the information needed associated with this bond instrument as well as any other bonnet humans they need to access great thank you good evening mayor members of council is the city manager indicated this action item before you is to adopt a bond resolution related primarily to the civic center place project but it also includes the snow melt along ninth street as well as a component of it financing just briefly to recap the city council has taken a number of actions related to this project and most recently as it relates to the financing the city had approved two separate notice of intent resolutions in august and september which indicated an intent to issue bonds for this project both the civic center place as well as the snow melt in this action item before you this evening is the final action item related to the financing of the project which authorizes the issuance of the bonds the resolution before you authorize the bonds at that maximum amount of thirteen million five hundred sixty thousand dollars for those projects and essentially authorizes the bonds to be sold through a negotiated sale and authorizes the city manager in finance director to take the necessary steps to proceed with preparing the information necessary for the marketing sale and delivery of the bonds this is a very similar process that citi went through last year when it sold bonds for the pension system in this bond issue again is expected to be a qualified energy conservation bond that's a federal tax credit program that is one that allows a city like you to issue taxable bonds and then the federal government remember says the city through a tax credit process so this is something that the state of michigan has a limited amount of bonds of this type that can be issued in the state and they had a competitive process for communities to submit their projects in the city was awarded an amount up to that thirteen million five hundred sixty thousand dollars with the caveat that the allocation order ends at the end of this year so that's really what's driving the timing on the financing is to take advantage of this program of the city would need to issue sell and deliver the bonds before the end of the calendar so again the resolution is essentially designed to provide flexibility for the structuring of the bonds the bonds can be  as both qualified energy conservation bonds or traditional tax exempt bonds depending on the projects in which qualify for which programs it authorizes then the actual structuring with maturities and things to be determined as we get a little closer to the time of sale and kerry can talk a little bit about that both the actual sale of the bonds and the timing so with that i'll turn it over to kerry to talk a little bit about the sale in structure related to this bond issue thank you carrie blanchett public financial management a financial advisor to the city i think pat went over most of the information but there's a lot of information that will need to be prepared between when you adopt the resolution and when we lock in the interest rates including the preparation of an official statement the ratings for the city and we would expect that we should be in a position to do that is to mean the city adopts this resolution tonight by the first week in december with the closing or the delivery the receipt of the proceeds by the end of december meeting the state's deadline is the manager indicated the qualified energy conservation bonds are very favorable you know interest rate would be somewhere in that one percent bonds for a one percent rate for the bonds for qualified energy conservation bonds so we will do our best to maximize getting as much of the project and qualified energy bands as possible great thank you so much any other comments or questions from counsel yes m yes mike but yes i was a little bit asleep at the switch when the report first came out we have been told all along that all thirteen point five was going to be eligible for him tonight that million which is what we initially went in thinking we we wanted to receive however that subject to review detailed review by our legal counsel ok and just for full disclosure than anticipated going rate on the on eligible amounts is was two and a half percent i thought it to two point eight or something like that employees that are a right if we were to take it over the whole term but if we were to structure the tax exempt piece where we pushed more the maturities in the earlier years it would be less i didn't have that number before coming to agreement and i'm catching a cold because i was kind of caught cold but we just we need to know our exposure when we were looking at potential savings of three million dollars now that's been virtually cut in half it has an impact on the overall project i'm glad to hear you say that you're going to try the very best to get as much as possible and i'm hoping it's going to creep further toward the thirteen than the nine that's that's all we're hoping for it's just it's a last minute kind of a shock to hear that not everything's eligible that we have been told the whole time so we just ask that you do the best that you can to find out every available dollar thank you and the other comments or question thank you so much thanks for being here we appreciate your expertise thank you now are moving into public oh i'm sorry do we have we have a resolution so we need a motion center that's great we're moving to public comment anyone come here to use to counsel about whatever they'd like to do come up to the podium give us your name and address you have five minutes they greenlight go the yellow light means one more minute and the red light means your five minutes is up ok my name is barbara consol levitt one three zero west ninth street i'm here to talk about ninth street obviously ninth street is a disaster it is an accident waiting to happen it's only wednesday and twice this week i've almost been hit trying to get in my driveway i've got neighbors that are going over their grass to get in this morning i stood outside and counted minute time span thirty three cars and one semi tele backed up in front of our driveway but we can't get it and we can't get out have you thought about what this is going to do it will of time and what about all the other events and now doing the civic center and that it's you've actually took a road of three lanes of speeding traffic crunched it into one and now we have one lane of speeding traffic and tell it backs up and nobody can go anywhere so is there any way we can do anything about this can we tweak this something has to be done because i've been there forty three years and this is the worst i've ever seen yeah well thank you we will definitely be studying it and have our transportation people look into it brian did you have something i just want to say our city engineer today was working on the this very question and working with the public works staff  in relation to the signal timing changing that to make sure that doesn't make worse problems elsewhere and that's that's one of several options that are being looked at i will say that i thank you for coming in and use that street people have used that street to come from work there they're on that street all the time i see the same trucks the same cars every night and you get a little bicycle path there if anybody uses that they're going to get killed i see a big accident waiting to happen there thank you the city council will receive a report back in a study session most likely i had a question today too about the timing of that light if it had been i just change this for two lanes so yes there are a lot of things to think about appreciate you bringing it to our attention thanks for coming in tonight thank you anyone else have something they would like to ok can you leave your name and address with the city manager and we'll get back to you i just gave you my headers a twenty eight l r drive right they've taken some sample test i haven't heard anything at all about it and i just want to know what now the other item i'd like to know is why are they planning trees in the business history con sixteenth street they can't even take care of the trees if they haven't or plant them in an area that's only three or four foot wide in the business area there who's going to pay for all of those trees to be trimmed out quick they can't take care of the trees they've got no they're still trying to plant more in a little three four foot area that's going to grow and hang all over the street i think machinery bicycles or when i was a kid you had a bicycle you had to pay six dollars for a license if you wanted to run it in the road if they're going to start paying always tries to narrowing up all of our roads they are start charging people for bikes so it's a hard thing to work out but it's very important if you're going to be a progressive community to have places for people to bike so we're trying to figure out how to do that well well i hope you do something because it don't look like you're doing very much thank you for coming in the night and i think we have his name and address yes and then the asphalt is under review by the city engineer there's been communication with individuals that have made that now and the results are not yet conclusive so he's correct that it's not concluded but i will report to you on that when i receive thank you anyone else has something they would like to share with the evening i met a mayor on a council members my name is chris meyer i'm here on behalf of chemical bank my law office number is or addresses one eleven line street in grand rapids and here to talk about the master plan in particular the master plan as relates to a single parcel of property that chemical bank owns down by the mcdonald's at m one forty and i one ninety six cabel or cable or cobble i don't know here pronounce various different ways  drive which is the dead end cul de sac that runs just to the left of the mcdonald's and the gas station as you as you go in there the property was developed for commercial hundred seven and other than the mcdonald's parcel has remained unsold since then it has full utilities it's ideally ready for development there's been a lot of interest from multifamily developers i believe the current buyer that we have for the property the dan hip group of companies of apartment owners is perhaps i believe the second person that's been interested in that property for multi family use it zoned for highway commercial use has been no interest for highway commercial use it's ideal for the multifamily use number one i don't think it's in dispute at all that there's a shortage of affordable housing in the holland area i think the latest report lists two hundred eighty nine apartment complex units that should be built in the city of holland to address the affordable housing situation in addition it's ideally located for industrial employees in that area it's next to a wetlands and across the street from across in forty from wetlands now owned by the discovery center they are slated to sunday the recreation area open to the public easy access to the highway easy access  down m for one forty and not far from the max bus line which could be extended pretty easily to connect to it in addition our understanding is with informal discussions from the neighbors is that it would be welcomed by the immediate neighbors there which is a positive thing to say for a multifamily apartment complex development we've been talking to city staff to the planning commission and to the mayor about this i know that the planning commission is not in favor of this change to the master plan which of course would be followed by a result mean and the limitation to come with zoning and any special land use or site plan approval that would be and i think one of the reasons that that they list is that they hope for single or for multifamily residential used to be moved closer to the rest of the residential use so that it could be connected by sidewalks in addition there's some hope the hope first if if the signal were to change the situation the developers are already be here a typical purchase agreement the commercial developers come in they know they typically have to signalize the intersection and that will just be a contingency to the closing that they that there's a warrant for the signal and so i don't think that that that's going to change anything although i do think having tried to turn left out of there that it would make sense to put safety purposes in terms of the other the other of the concern that it be it be walkable again i would note that there aren't there are people who would prefer to have easy access to and from the highway the easy access from m forty into holland and down to al it's a nice convenient location for that but also note that it is immediately adjacent to a property that slated to be open to the public for public or creations a pretty nice wetlands area and so it is a nicely located prop piece of property for someone who would want to be in that season of their life where they would want to rent an apartment in that particular location so i wanted to highlight that for you and and talk about it now i know it's been in the planning commission level now the master plan is at the city commission level of course in arizona it's going to come up to the city or city council level and so i want to highlight this for you we'll be submitting a formal statement to go with your study session which i'm understanding is going to be december fourteen h and there was so be here at your public hearing with mr hima so you can talk to him directly about his experience of owning apartment complexes and managing them that are located in similar areas in west michigan so that  ok thank you a closed the public comment and move on to the adoption of ordinance good evening madam mayor and a city council members let me on the proper visuals held a required public hearing on this back i told her eleventh there was some some comments and suggestions from some adjacent neighbors in regards to the rezoning and specifically in regards to  in and actually demo the entire property save for in in the existing vacant restaurant building that's located at the far west end of the property i believe they're also coming in  existing vacant residential pick and commercial building into a bakery structure and there would be a nice outdoor patio area that you can see and the landscape the plan here and then they would intend to have completely redo the parking in there and it should be really kind of a showcase bakery that we can have here on the south side of the lake again so phase two there has been  eastern side of the property and that could potentially be a restaurant but they're not committing to that at this time in then if there is the restaurant on that side then you can see on the site plan here this account be filled in with additional  parking lot area so it's an exciting project it's very nice to see a vacant a commercial building that's been on again and off again with a restaurant in there hopefully getting getting approved for a final load renovation and bringing that back into operation so that's basically about what we have in a nutshell so i'd be happy to answer any questions of come to members have anything for staff great thank you mark any questions or discussion what's wrong with the bakery about the great indoor outdoor seating it said yeah that would be a wonderful beautiful development at the entrance to collin park and house or village absolutely and that's the you know that's a very good up point this is kind of at the eastern end of the whole south shore village in they very much want to be a part of the energy that's going on in the soft shore village or in the should be a very welcome addition and cleaning up this property and in bringing it back to life would be a very welcome thing for this area that's great do we have a motion we approve moved by now we're on to the next huge and wonderful thing happening with all the snow melt the largest system and all of north america and dave castor is here as manager  us about how we're doing with our snow melt connections right he sixteen right so as as many people in town know there's been activity around snow melt with regard to new snow melt going in not everybody knows probably that the source of the heat for that snow melt system is moving from the de young power plant which was the heat source back to one thousand nine hundred eighty when the original system was put in to how an energy part which is allowing you know for the growth in the system which was already you know the largest in north america and we're we're adding on to that and so tonight thank you madam mayor for allowing me to be here tonight  to talk about the updates and how we're doing in terms of making those connections and the short story is the physical connections are all in place for the water and you know we're moving towards the circulation of that water here and then into introduction of heat coming shortly thereafter and so i have some slides some some visuals to show people at home one of the things i would note is that throughout the whole interview park project there's been a tremendous public interest in the development we've created opportunities for people to observe the construction as it's going on and we've had a lot of people take advantage of that so i know that those watching at home tonight might be interested in some of the visuals  well but so i talked a little bit about that the the snow melt which is water source going through pipes the water then transmits the heat to the street hot water does that the water goes out of our power generation station at about ninety five degrees fahrenheit so that hot water carries this snow melting capacity within it but it all goes back to some heat source and that heat sources that are power plant and in typical operation we're using the wasted heat from the power generation cycle so it's part of the natural cycle of rejecting heat it's part of the inherent process often a power plant will just reject that heat to the atmosphere through a cooling tower and we have a cooling tower how energy part but in the winter instead of using that cooling tower we can use a snow melt system to get other value out of what otherwise would be a waste of heat product and so that's the primary source but just as at dion when we had a source which was the older unit number three a coal fired unit when that unit would be offline we had to resort to a backup in that backup at dion was not able to produce the same on a hot water same temperature as when you number three was on line the nice part about building a power plant with an idea of how you want to serve snow melt is that you can make sure that the back ups provide the same quality he as the primary source and in this case we do have a backup  park it's an auxiliary boiler that we can fire natural gas in to provide that heat it should happen very infrequently once the plant is fully up and running but the timing of the plant being operational isn't quite with the same timing as the snow falling and so we want to make sure that that backup system is operational and ray to support us and tell how energy park in the generators are fully on line and so the backup will be the primary heat source or the backup will move to it's the primary function here for the next few months as we're commissioning the combustion turbines and the boilers and the steam turbine and how energy park so this picture here shows that our gas line this is the end of the gas line it's a thirteen mile gas line that has been part of our project and we've got that complete now that's been completed for a couple weeks we've gone through cleaning processes on that line and now it's been tested from a pressure test dam point and it's now filled with gas and so the good news is we have gas ready at the at the station and this is just a picture the white pipes there is the are the end of that pipeline from that white from the white pipes that goes inside the building and this next picture shows our fuel gas treatment area so even though the gas that were received is high quality in pipeline quality natural gas still it's an end up going through very very fine orifices very fine nozzles very squoze tolerance nozzles in our combustion turbines we have to treat it even further we have to scrub out any particles that would be in there and clean out any water that be left over and so we have a whole area in the plant dedicated to that and this gas treatment area is all constructed it's ready to go we just need  commission it we need to go in and have the people that do the commissioning make sure that all the different pieces and parts of the scrubbing system are functioning that's coming up here shortly and i'll get to the schedule at the end of the slide show this next slide shows the auxiliary boiler itself it's a backup heat source again our primary source would be from the combustion turbines and from the steam turbine in its normal operation as part of a wasted product and making good use of that here we have the boiler that's capable of providing you know all of what the current capacity is in the snow melt system plus a little bit more and so this will be the source of the heat going forward it is also built but we have a few pieces and parts that are coming in over the next week a control panel that had to be replaced and then the commissioning will begin on that you talked about the water that moves through the pipes the power plant actually has the pumps that actually allow that to happen to actually move t water through the four point nine miles now of snow melt pipe that's that's in our community and so these pumps are ready to go again we're just now start to recirculate the water here shortly and also we talked about how changing from the de young plant to this plant the other thing that people might not know at home is that we used lake water went through the tubes before and now that'll be a cleaner water source it won't use the lake water will be a closed loop system with with cleaner water and matter of fact we spent a lot of time this summer cleaning up the water we've got it down to a pretty pretty clean water source at this point but going forward you look at the picture on the left there is a strain in that line that will further remove any of the remaining solids from the stone melt system as it circulates here over the next several weeks and this is just another picture showing some of the piping in the plant and then a final picture showing where the auxiliary boiler is and then all the green pipe is the is this normal pipe fun fact here is that you know we're also developing the visitor center experience at how energy park so when the project is done people can come through the be able to look through various large windows and see all this equipment firsthand they'll also be a number of exhibits there and one of those exhibits will be to show kind of a cutaway of the city street so you understand how the tubes are under there and how the the how the heat transfers up up to the surface we also are using some of the snow melt at the power plant itself so you see some of the smaller tubing that does that he transferred to the asphalt being put in here around some of the homeowner g park driveway and side and parking areas so overall status just to kind of bring a bridge everybody up to speed again all the water connections have been made at this point the original system has gone through extensive flushing as i talked to taking that lake water and moving it out we put about two million gallons of in valves that would hold up even better going forward we've gotten the solids concentration of the water that was used to be lake watered down to about one hundred milligrams per liter very very small amount of solids in the line but we're going to scrub that even further as it goes through hollin energy park all those new systems and the new systems have and build over the last the last couple years in the old system have all been filled with water today actually we brought to the new system up to city water pressure and that's the first step in a process of testing a pressure test on the system so to on friday this week we're actually going to bring the pressure above its normal operating point just to make sure that it holds at that level and we only do that for a short period of time and we make sure that there aren't errant aren't any leaks and that will test the integrity of the of the new system once that's done on saturday will actually start circulating water through the system so you know if it's getting cold outside right now and there's some concern about whether the water would freeze in their loss by continuing to circulate the water there's there's no chance of that that happening so that's all about water flowing now we have to put heat in the system and so as i talked about the auxiliary boiler that act commissioning actually is actually starting today in a run through the twenty first of november this month the fuel gas treatment area all the things that are scrubbing the gas even further that's beginning on the thirteenth of this month and running through the eighteenth and  those two systems the commission will actually start burning natural gas in the boiler to first do a boil out will actually have a chemical cleaning and boil out of the tubes and then will start to blow steam through just to kind of ensure that the tubes in the boiler are all clean that'll be done by the fifth of december and so the fifth of december the system is operational with the heat going into it this is a solid schedule that's been given to us by the contractor it isn't exactly where we want to be because we know that in november there can be some snow and we're anxiously watching the forecast over the next few weeks we've had a very mild fall so far and we're hoping that that continues but you know everybody at home should know that we're working the schedules diligently as we can diligently as we can to make sure that we have the heat in place before snow really starts falling in earnest so that's an update i'd be happy to answer any questions anybody  that is really exciting all we want for christmas is the snow melt system right absolutely and commissioning means somebody looks over every little piece her act it's very very exhaustive process because when you when you're bringing in natural gas to a plant obviously you start getting very concerned about making sure that all the pieces and parts are in place that all the things that are supporting the pipes are the right size and and so you go through this very deliberate process of checkout and then as you start running it through the different systems of the boiler all of them have to be operationally checked and make sure that any bugs are worked out at the front part so that you can get into operation and have it you know operate without fail and the little stand is still out there so people while watch what's going on yes absolutely if you drive an unfair banks avenue up to where the gate is just before the gate seven street goes off to the left behind mr coe's x and behind holland  imports if you take seven street up the hill there is still an observation platform there so we have a little placard that shows kind of where things are located it was much easier to kind of correlate that when the building wasn't complete but now the building is complete you still can see some activity happening around the outside of the plant and even because the glass is on the front you can look right into the facility and sometimes see activity there as well so yeah encourage people that you know come out and take a look if they have an interest in snow melters getting  now outside right yeah and so outside of the area around the plant perimeter there's snow melt going on there everything downtown i think for the most part we're going we're getting close to the final paving i think with that last section of central avenue but  you know inside the plant fence area there are still some tubing that's going in will continue that all the way up to the new entrance that's coming off from chicago drive will have the snow melt so when can people actually go in the plant that's going to be until i have to yeah we're going to have ribbon cutting you know we been targeting sometime around early october or late september or this next calendar year right close to public power week i would say would be a time that we'd be looking at sort of we may have some some soft launch of the visitor center before that but i think that's the time that we'd be looking at making that vailable for people to come in and actually do that to her so yeah gotta get through the regular construction and then you know i'm not sure how many at home or are are aware that were have a group that's involved in designing this whole visitor center which is going to be an educational resource for the community to understand about the plant about energy issues about how you can use it wisely in your home some of the key decisions that have been made over the past years on energy in our community and so it's really a neat exhibit that's going to be there it's part of that red spine great so middle of february is the actual using of the plant ribbon cutting is probably in june some time right rabbit ribbon cutting maybe june maybe a little later might might be coordinated with this whole visitor center opening as well we'll have to see how that actually questions or comments yes david just real quick one to watch this presentation in the think of where the snow melt thing started you know an idea of a prince through some driveway or something and then to look at the level of complexity it's achieved now it's it's a story to be told of itself you know maybe we should make a movie of it or something that just reminds me that it requires a lot of engineering and thinking and needed and thank you and not great coronation with the city obviously we're the delivery of the energy into the system the city has done a lot to you know make that system work well for the downtown and then the growing areas that are are there and it's  to good good partnership and good relationship we can talk about a lot when it doesn't work you know that's a win that we talk about a lot more so yes you've got your point well we often joke sometimes that the old power plant anyway was a snow melting machine that also made electricity i saw that's how important it's become yeah i mean you should be poster boy for valve manufacturers who outsiders one hundred two of those things yeah that's right and let's look they're going to hold up a lot better the the old ones did so most isolated i think ryan want to point out something you know here is not so exactly for people looking at home and maybe our crew in the center can show the map on the screen and that's available on our website now as well so you want to plan their routes this winter following december fifth you'll have an opportunity to do so they're great thank you exciting times thanks for coming opposed same sign that carries moving onto the planning commission propose city howland a master plan mr mark vander palooka i believe is the master of the master plan thank you again nerd who are in city council members i could launch into a really long powerpoint presentation in regards to this tonight but i can to save that for another meeting so you schedule a study session we're staff can really dig into this with you and and point out all the details and so it's quite a quite a lengthy document one hundred seventy five some pages and so with that that we do that review then and then sometime probably in december or so that we actually get to the point of having a formal public hearing with city council in the asking for city council to formally adopted so that's what we have for you to see great this represents thousand people's input forty more are more public meetings all kinds of input and decisions and design and we really want to devote a study just session to really getting into it so absolutely thank you so we will any other comments from anyone  so moving on to five three three three point two zero yes we need to take off the park hours proposed right version gets adopted for first reading or accepted for first reading i asked to be taken off so the appropriate process would be to have a motion to accept it for first reading and then a motion to amend to adapt the revised version for first reading here except the wonderful thank you thank you ron for your help in that navigation all right we're on to get that lovely subject of gifts and i could you please share with us what items are on that list the city managers o one from cork and elizabeth niland for fifty dollars in will keyser police officer labor council in the amount of one hundred dollars it is recommended that these donations be accepted was appreciation an expression of that kerry's wonderful it's amazing names that have here over and over through the years supporting the great things that go on here and how and are very very very thankful for that  state street the sections there that are still underway secondly like to make note that there is a thank you letter that i think many of you will have received that relates to everything that greg feels about the city and his services here twenty years and especially very nice resolution that the city council adopted and that was received and third received a gentleman in the office i'm going to pass this around his name is blumenthal second ward council member in the day and he has a picture of the city council and you will recognize some faces and he wanted us to have this he has been away thank you ryan yes so we're headed toward the election on november eighth next week tuesday case anybody didn't know if the polls were open at seven am they close at eight p m please remember to bring your photo id and if you'd like to review a sample ballot or find your polling location i think we have a slide with that you go to the city of highland website and slash city clerk slash view my sample ballot and you can see what they're going to look like also and you are going to be open on saturday right much and people can find their polling stations right on that link wonderful also the holidays are coming amazing doesn't feel like it the weather's been so beautiful but we know it's going to be changing we will be having a holiday open house and a tree lighting ceremony and nov nineteenth at five o'clock downtown howland that is always a great time and of the the open house is on november one thousand the tree lighting is at eight o'clock and that will be at the corner of eight and central so that is always great to then we have the parade of lights which is the end of november at six thirty on the twenty ninth that begins at it's lights up the night and have all kinds of participation and fun cast to mess with lighting everybody enjoys that as well and they'll be the holiday kreutz market that will be out at the civic center outside there that's wonderful and please come on down for the mayor's annual holiday open house we'll have that on friday december second between five and eight o'clock at city hall the actual open house here will be from five to six and then you can go on down town and they'll have the annual center class parade that begins at seven and i'll be at west eighth street in the farmers market area and that goes on over to centennial park so it's a beautiful way to think about christmas the holidays and sinterklaas traditions from the netherlands which is wonderful we also have the eyes on the prize next celebration so come on down for that would love to be given away ness thermostats and all kinds of things worth showing up and then our living sustainably along the lake shore we have the next date for that november fifteenth i didn't know i could be cycle that and that will be held i believe at the library you can look that up at the living sustainably along the lake shore  have a motion support supported by hoekstra all those in favor say aye right post same sign that carries thank you ok any other motions or resolutions from won the lottery in cuba back in the one nine hundred ninety and part winning the lottery meant that you could be moved to the united states that they would pay for your paperwork and so  has the youngest son and two older brothers and the mother were all given the ability to move to the united states there was not enough money in that prize for his father to be included and so the father made the decision that life in america would be better than their staying in cuba and he actually signed off on his children for them to be able to have the opportunity to live in the united states and that was a hard thing for him to even talk about at this stage of his life he hardly ever size father recently his brother came to visit he has a half brother because his father eventually remarried and there was a one more son and the half brothers now twenty three years old and came over to visit america and he could not believe what it's like to live here he would say yeah was it ok if i do this is it ok if i do that am i going to get reported and all kinds of statements like that and one kept reassuring him no this is united states of america we have freedom here you don't have to get approval for that he said his dad in order to have meat which is a vailable in the stores if you pay so much money no one can ever afford it so his dad bought a package of and then had a cow who had two calves hid one calf in the woods and register the other calf they fed that cow in the woods and didn't let anyone know that they had it eventually they slaughtered that kyle and then would package the meat inside that same package that he had bought meat out of so when the military came to see whether they were do following the rules they would think all that's meat he bought and he had to store the other meet in secret in some kind of refrigeration he had set up electricity he doesn't get enough electricity he fixes things fixes cars he's a mechanic so he needs electricity to make his welding equipment work so every morning at five o'clock in the morning he will go up on his roof and attach his line to the power line but then he has to go out again and detach it because if they see that he's getting electricity he'll be prosecuted he had a bee sting and he's allergic to bees so he went to the doctor what am i going to do with i'm swelling up and the doctor said you'll have to go to the pharmacy went to the pharmacy and said i need some medicine because my throat is swelling up i can't breathe and they said sorry you have to have a doctor's order he said the antidote is sitting right there no i can't give it to you without it doctor's orders so finally he had five minutes left so he jumped over the counter and grabbed the antidote and administered it himself and the sheiks the police came and said you can't have that you don't have a doctor's order and fortunately the police knew him and said i know that guy he has that condition he has the money let him pay for the antidote he doesn't have to be arrested that was those were just a little handful of experiences that he shared with me and is especially poignant because last night i was at the knickerbocker and they had the introduction of the big read which is a study of the book rather i'm dying which is written by a woman who moved here from haiti she her parents wanted a better life so they moved here and left her as a four year old with her aunt and uncle and came back for her when she was twelve and brought her to the united states and she tells the story of what it feels like to have your family ripped apart and then kind of put back together and then her biological father dies is dying and the other brother they try to bring the united states and it's it's a very difficult process i felt the facts of that last night i felt the emotion of it today as i talked with  and watched his pain it's decades old but he's hardly seen his dad and his mom made an unbelievable decision as well to come here to give them opportunity we wake up every morning here we wake up every morning with the freedom to make choices we are watching for military police to tell us whether you can buy meat or get medicine or have electricity these are all things that we just can easily take for granted and next tuesday is the da it's the day to exercise your right to vote it's not been a pretty process this year but it certainly beats cuba or haiti and we want to preserve those freedoms we want this to be a nation that is a light in this world so let's show up and do that let's be informed voters let's do our part and let's appreciate what we have then so graciously given by the sacrifice of many veterans before us so thank you for being here tonight for tuning in tonight and we appreciate the work that was done here tonight and now we need to go into a closed session