good evening folks this is the regularly scheduled meeting of the hauen city council for september sixteenth as we do every meeting we're going to start with a roll call and then opening prayer done by comprehension me the thoughts we have the words we speak the actions we take be inspired by that love and reflect the essence of who you are please give watchful attention to those who serve us sustain colleagues who are not with us and empower this community in graceful progression toward a future you clearly can see and we really work to discover we pray with grateful attitudes amen  three twenty six west fourteenth street here in holland michigan and this is my granddaughter me sharaf son she wants to talk i have a packet of information that i'm going to give to i thank you for having me and allowing us to speak and i'll settle for accommodating me the reason for the accommodation is the reason that i'm here today i have something called electoral hypersensitivity and it's something that most people are not aware of maybe they haven't heard of it so i'm trying to educate individuals about it so that there's a better understanding and not just that so there's a better understand but also i'm hoping that eventually something is going to be done in this country to help people that suffer the way that we do there's something called the magnetic spectrum and the electromagnetic spectrum is everything from radio frequency radio waves gamma x rays and microwave and i'm have sensitivity to all of them the first symptoms that i had was burning all over breaking out and rashes dizziness terrible headaches as time went on i became disabled i had to go on disability and the judge used it as a criteria for my disability as far as my disability to be able to work i carry two doctors notes with me but it took me quite a long time to get a note from the doctor saying that i had this because it's not well known there's not agreed upon set of symptoms here in the united states there's not an i c d cold for it yet even though other countries including holland finland germany italy switzerland sweden canada recognize it as a functional disability we're kind of slow to respond here in the united states some other countries also have refuge sunders for people to go to and order to have relief france has a refuge center that they've opened up as a humanitarian effort to help people that have this condition as time goes on and other neurological problems become apparent there's memory loss short term memory loss i've lost spans of time  daughter got married for instance and i found her marriage license with my signature on it i thought someone else put my signature on there i called her by couldn't understand why my name was on it because i had no recollection of being at her wedding she sent pictures to my son's phone thinking that that would help me to remember what had transpired i have no money no memory even looking at the pictures i have no memory i have gaps of memory that are gone after high exposure i become confused about dates and events and times and i forget what's transpired  myself and all of the says really does suck disrupt of my way of life and i'm hoping by educating other people that we can get some help in this country and so i turned to take this further i try to give presentations at hospitals so that they will know they might not know when i come in what i'm suffering from my granddaughter wants to tell you how she's been affected how it feels to her physically and how it's affected her ability to do school work hi my name is michelle and i can't even go to school because an infected and it's then affecting me and my body and places my head i would like to come back some time i have a packet of information if anyone has any questions they could jot down their questions and on time answer to the best of my ability is your contact information also in for all the city council members someone to come back to the general manager's office one day perfect when i'm feeling well thank you so much i thank you very much forward the information and we hope it helps online we'd like to cover part of solution thank you so what we've got today for you or for the public is just a quick update we've been working on a agenda management system the clerk's office think about it i've really been working very hard on this project to update the agendas so we want to give the public you know idea of how how they can not get that really easy city of holland dot com we have a link on the left hand side the agendas and we go in there it's going to take us to civic web the city of holland civic website you can see we've got a calendar showing all of the agendas that are here on the side and it'll actually give us if i scroll down just a little bit more today's agenda today's meeting for the city council regular meetings of september sixteenth and i can click on that and it will take me to that  agenda and i got an error from that agenda i can also go and i can click on the agenda it gives me this script split screen functionality so that when people are at home they want to see what the what the council agenda is they may want to go down to just what their their item is that they're interested in they can click on the report it'll show up in the right hand pane they can view the different attachments so they can kind of bounce around a little bit within this this application to get to where they want to be what they want to see what reports they want to actually take notes with they can do you can do that you can actually take notes within here if you're interested about it i one of the main features that we also want to to make sure if i go back here  cover is that the folks can actually sign up if they go to that link off the city's page and we go to we go back here and we go down in the main landing page we can actually go there's a section called updates you go in that he updates section your home and you want to be notified when council agendas are posted or  agendas so all the different types of a dent genders that the the city puts out of the b p w puts out you can actually go in here you can check a box your e mail address and it will notify you will send you an e mail when a new agenda is out or a vision has been made to that agenda so it's a great project again headed up by the clerk's department that is is really trying to push out our information to the public and make sure we're as excessive as we possibly can be one of the thing  mad for the apple users would it be wise to talk about the the app that's out there not really that that is really meant for internal users ok so  written so i'm going to have to try to use my memory what will be read now is the consent of gender which the items on the agenda and there are copies in the back for those that are in the in attendance  approve the minutes of the regular meetings held oct nineteenth and september second two thousand and fifteen and the august twenty sixth two thousand and fifteen study session item c to accept and file executed oaths of office from various boards and commissions i am twelve b one and seventeen eighty two except in place on first reading a proposed zoning ordinance amendment to rezone five thirty two west sixteenth street from c one district to the p u d district with the final adoption of the rezoning to occur at the october seventh two thousand and fifteen city council meeting item twelve b two and seventeen b to accept and place on first reading a proposed zoning ordinance text amendments to section thirty nine dash one ninety seven thirty nine dash one eighty five thirty nine dash four or one thirty nine dash two eighty four thirty nine dash sixty one and thirty nine dash ninety five with a final adoption to a corps at the october seventh two thousand and fifteen city council meeting item twelve d two and seventeen  to accept them place on first reading ordinance amendments repealing chapters twelve food service annotation chapter fifteen ice chapter thirty eight weights and measures and to amend chapter thirty two section thirty two dash thirteen elimination of sidewalk license curb cuts and driveway approaches with final reading on october seventh two thousand fifteen item twelve easy one point one twelve one point two and twelve one point three two adopt resolutions scheduling public hearings of necessity for the annual downtown parking operations and maintenance assessment downtown principal shopping district assessment downtown snow melt operations and maintenance assessment and to instruct the deputy city clerk to publish and mail said notices item fourteen be three point one to accept the june two thousand and fifteen monthly financial reports as presented item twelve ether point two to approve the c three contract incorporated bed at a cost of fifty five thousand and fifty dollars to paint and repair the upper exterior of city hall with funds to be paid from the municipal capital improvement fun item twelve three point three to declare a surplus bicycles acquired by the police division with donations to be made to seventy times seven and also listed in property room dot com for disposal and sale item twelve eve five point two two an approval in agreement with lake shore advantage for fiscal two thousand and sixteen economic development services in the amount of seventy five thousand dollars that this amount be funded through the city's economic development budget as approved form by the city attorney item twelve eve five point three to appoint a revokable license agreement to enable the extension of a driveway snow melt system into the right away of ramona drive along with the condition to install  concrete band with between the edge of ramona drive and the private property boundary project's actual address as one two seven six beach drive subject to approval as the form by the city attorney item twelve easy six point one to postpone the recommendation regarding the removal of the sign no parking here to corner west of twenty fourth street to the october seventh two thousand and fifteen city council meeting in order to allow adjacent property owners to be notified and provided the opportunity to comment thank you mr wagner at this time i will open the floor and ask if there's any thing on the consented genda that would like to be removed from the audience since we're well attended a see nobody coming up here so good evening mayor pro tem and members of city council will be holding our annual public hearing and then hopefully city council be approving the submission of the community development block grant consolidated annual performance and evaluation report the city of holland is in its title may community as established by the department of housing and urban development what this means is each year allocates several hundred thousand dollars to the city of holland as part of that allocation we have to provide hud and in a report that explains to them how we spent the money and what we spent that money on during the previous risk or year fifteen which  covered july first two thousand and fourteen to june thirtieth two thousand and fifteen the city expended two hundred seventy eight thousand one hundred sixty four dollars and seventy eight cents eighty percent of the of these funds resulted in direct benefits  low and moderate income households and individuals this exceeds the seventy percent requirement as stablished right through this past fiscal year we accomplish the following things seven thousand two hundred dollars  on fair housing services this resulted in two fair housing training sessions for housing industry professionals this was landlords landlords and mortgage professionals twelve and a half hours of education and outreach services were provided to protected classes eight fair housing tests were conducted and we supported one fair housing workshop at the midtown center in october of two thousand and fourteen also we  received staff support from the fair housing center of west michigan at the lake shore fair housing board forty five thousand dollars was spent on good samaritan ministries neighborhood connections program one thousand dollars went directly to good seem to manage program and one thousand dollars went to four different neighborhood connection groups through those groups one hundred fifty eight volunteers came together in neighborhood action groups social events or improvement programs to neighborhood surveys were conducted twenty four neighborhood parties or social events occurred forty seven neighborhood improvement projects were completed and thirty one properties that were working with city halls c staff received assistance from these neighborhood groups one hundred seventy thousand nine hundred sixty dollars and eighty one cents was spent on the city's home repair program this helped forty five homers forty five homeowners in the past year make improvements to their houses of that hundred seventy thousand dollars one hundred thirty two thousand was used on direct assistance to improve the homes with the average grant to a home be in two thousand nine hundred forty six dollars and eighty seven cents thirty eight thousand dollars was used to manage at home with her program three thousand dollars is spent to help one homeowner purchase a new home with down payment and closing cost assistance three thousand nine hundred eighty two dollars and sixty cents was spent to finalize the improvements bowers pool the previous fiscal year which included new fencing water heaters and a new painted surface a total of forty eight thousand was spent on overall operation the management costs to oversee the community development block grant program in a previous year as i mentioned earlier this is the annual meeting where we hold a public hearing to receive comments and he comments provided tonight by the public will be included in the caper and it's submitted to hyde after the development block grant program you have up to five minutes to address council on this specific subject there will be some lights in front of you here all we ask is that you state your name and address for the record yes that motion passes six zero very good mr story had a little the world look on your face we had to have a little special comment section early on  now is the time of the place for public comment for any item that is not on the can on the agenda later on and candidates story is first up ok well let me say  mr mayor pro tem and members of the council i'd first like to give a brief report on the county of allegheny highlights in the last couple of months first of all we have proceeded with the demolition of our old they can pick them up at the new jail site is taken down we expect the demolition process will be completed by the end of october and will be adding somewhere in the neighborhood of fifty to sixty parking places for our cody building i also came to drop off a couple of copies three copies of our state of the county report that was published earlier this summer and i guess i then finally during the recent i guess it was mid july national association of counties meeting in north carolina allen county received first place award for converting to line systems from paper systems among counties of our size and they do it for you know various categories and were in the i think one hundred two hundred thousand population category so this is not the first time we've received such an award i think it's the third time in the last five years so we're trying to keep pace with modern life so that's briefly the report from from the county seat  legislature earlier last week and i do so because i think it's really important at this particular point in the history of that legislature seat that we send a person to lansing who has that experience working with boards such as yoursel s and you know to effect a great program for our county i think one of the things that most upset me by the events of the past six weeks is that in addition to the  harm visited upon the reputation of those involved kind of the collateral damage was to the image of allegheny county itself and one of the reasons i decided to seek this position is i want to go to lansing and be a voice for elegant county's improved image in the fact that we have so many very good people the this is as i've heard reported to you earlier you know some very competent local governments that they're doing a great job and a state representative should be reflective of that some of the things that i think we need to do in lansing of course and i hope by the time whoever wins this election wrote packages is completed in place so that that issue hasn't is and doesn't drink anymore but i think it's an example that extended deliberations over the road package over the past two years highway is an example of you know when collegio bodies don't work together and i think here you have both here the city council house and other bodies to show how it is important to work together projects such as the airport we brought three governments together the building of the house and energy park where we consulted extensively with our citizen or a you know other repairs to to build that project shows that it can be done when you know people want to work together so that is the reason i'm running for the position it is a short campaign in political terms forty five days as i stand here so i may not make many more of these meetings over that forty five day period that's either a blessing or a curse but i've enjoyed visiting with you on my reports and with that your direction their approach on two three i'd be happy to respond to questions thank you your questions for the commission or the candidates thank you think i don't have a comment rather than a question about i think don't speak for anyone else but i know myself i was personally thrilled to hear that you've been in this race knowing the commitment to public service that you've given to al in county serving as a commissioner but also to the city as someone who represents the portion of the city in allen county so it gives myself quite a bit of confidence that the city's interests would be represented well at least the out and county portion in the legislature s distinction that is unique in all of the state of michigan for a city of its size that is it would have to state representatives living within its borders one of the outer with side of thirty second and one of the elegant side of thirty second and i think it's a testament to the quality of the community in addition to anything else i've had the privilege of living all over the state and three of the places i've lived mark at midland and now holland all have excellent management records for running a city and i attribute both to the quality of the board that i'm facing right now the quality of the managers they hire to run the city and i think that's the kind of legacy we need to introduce into lansing is let us see how we can reason together to build the state we continue to recover from the two thousand and eight recession if we have the want to claim it here we also have salaries are a little bit below the statewide average so that's the other thing we need to work on the job of rebuilding our economy is not over and it certainly is going to be it would be at the top of my agenda addition to reestablishing a quality reputation a value county so fake you know i've got to be out five minutes and i'm not jim you're welcome anytime anybody else west wished to address the council all right that brings us all the way down to the second page item five point one g think you're mayor pro tem to the city manager's office is pleased to report receipt of the following gift parks and recreation cell pres collar ship anonymous gift of forty four dollars and fifty one cents it's recommended it is recommended that these donations be accepted with appreciation and expressed expression of gratitude be forwarded to said donors the so to be good was the pleasure of counsel motion to accept members of the city council of the first item i want to say is about is on september thirtieth there will be a bus tour brought back by popular demand after two years we have a lot to look at the holiday if you park the central avenue  project and the airport and many others while making after i made that statement i want to let you know that it appears what we are looking at being smart about the construction and central such that etc and then begin again and have that completed with the final surface of asphalt and then begin anew in the spring south of one thousand three the section of twentieth out to state street and perhaps combine that with some other that the evergreen commons is hoping to see on state street so this is under review i say that because we need to have know what the terms our relation to the contractors need  connections some are employees as part of the combined effort with the skate ministries and kind of government was a major employer major donor and there are forty others like these that are also major donors that are getting  appreciation and recognition for their assistance to the program so thank you ron and thank you cunningham donna you're welcome just one of many in the community that supported their program and proud to do so do that and we're having a d briefing in a couple weeks and we will bring back to you any thoughts about next year's program as well as a video that is being produced to explain it to future employers which make all the difference  in addition to the downers they provide the jobs that next thing i think is will be addressed later on just mention it i just in case that's a proclamation pertaining to and also a special announcement regarding the attending the m l annual meeting a great place to be and there's a lot of like folks up there talking about state affairs both local and  we hope they have a good time and also learn something also basically we're all available the e mail all of or  the as we had seen a little bit earlier getting to the website getting to the city website to be able to get information about the city the events going on contacting council members we've got a variety of different ways to get ahold of us facebook and i'm not a techie so help me out here brant you can go to all sorts of places city of on dot com  place to go fantastic so if you can get ahold of us well even a look hard enough about that speaking in a communications i want to bring attention also to the article that was in the paper yes the today or yesterday man today that front page we've got a second to none video department that is bringing us all the different feeds all the different features award winning  remembered correctly and we're very very proud of that started by mr van dyke and i'm sure overseen by mr van dyke and its need to have remembering the old t v days to where we've come today it's it's night and day difference but it's very welcome as your mayor i will be mine we have a couple of those folks who actually stand behind walls on any given wednesday night never show their faces until afterwards  i think it be cool if we could invite them out for a moment and actually let them show their faces on camera so we could recognize i'm sure i have no problem with that at all thank you they give you their picture of the whole life version of that story for the indulgence go back to work again but they need to be egos you have to stand behind my because you can't be there you didn't yeah you didn't change the camera so we'll let you be introduce yoursel thank you both very much this is been a fun beating him to get to muse to be thanks again reconsider i do have appointments from the mayor and see a appoint chris heart to the to a time board for a three year term said term to expire september thirty of twenty eighteen and  carolyn we stead to the sustainability commission for a two year term to expire march thirty of twenty seven team also have a reappointment four and a white to the team court board for a two year term said term to expire june thirtieth of two thousand and seventeen i could have a motion to that effect move to approve those appointments support fifteen through october fifteenth he is known as hispanic heritage month you know among the numerous activities that will be taking place an example of such i will be taking place this friday evening progressive sort of experience that starts off at the herrick district why barry with a group called better they vocal oreo and then moves to the city hall here where folks will be able to view a number of photographs on loan from the consulate of mexico on the topic of the mexican revolution there are also be several photographs also on loan from the consulate of our sister city can i throw mexico route will be giving a short discussion i could actually hear as well so those are some experiences that you can enjoy this friday to put it in more formal terms are also have a  it reads whereas hispanic heritage month is a celebration from september fifteenth through october fifteenth two thousand and fifteen that celebrates and recognizes the many contributions of a hispanic american citizens living in the and most importantly living in our community and whereas hispanic heritage month demonstrates the unity and diversity of hispanics around the world who will celebrate their colorful and distinctive culture and whereas the contributions of the hispanic community in sports the arts humanities sciences and cuisine is recognized and celebrated most importantly we recognize a positive influence of strong commitment to family faith hard work and service the hispanic community has shaped the multi ethnic and multicultural customs of our community and whereas the city of holland joins other communities across our nation celebrating and recognizing the many contributions and legacies that are  heritage month of the city of holland and urge our citizens to honor and celebrate the achievements of a people that have contributed so much to our american culture we invite all citizens to engage in the numerous community events to celebrate national hispanic heritage impact this estate ability of work communities and there was a lady by the name of lisa miller who will be the spokes person from grand valley state university will host that so it should be really interesting informative and dirt flying on the south side of town and no it's not my constituents throwing things at me it is long overdue we have a world class economy as commissioner story mentioned and we have a world class tourism economy to go with it and very very soon we will have a an airport terminal that matches class if you will with other city amenities and upgrade if you will and so the official groundbreaking will be this coming monday september twenty first at eleven a m like to invite folks out to that  to see not only the ceremony but i'm sure there's going to be a great display of what the end product will look like how it's oriented on the property there and in what are our visitors whether they be recreational or business  will soon encounter and so i want to invite all out to that mode here this past weekend labor day i'm sorry we can before the truck parade was an extreme success i appreciate all the help the weather that held out for us we had sixty six trucks and mr cotton got rattled out of his house because of all the horns but it was very well attended i think we get a b it's like seventy two hundred courts of ice cream and i think we got rid of about eighty percent of them so it was very very well attended in from what i understand from nancy the pancake breakfast was also a and the boardwalk was also a great success so  os to all thank you for thank you to the residents of the area and the community for supporting those two great events and we'll hope to see you next year already of any other