we actually went into open session and then into a closed session of the board of public works board of directors also went into a session up stairs and the board of directors of the b p w actually took action on an item tonight related to property acquisition that coun will be taking action on in just a few minutes so all of which is to say the role has been called we have a quorum and we are in the public meeting but that really is the only thing we have done so far meaning that the next two items we will have to do items two and three which is first of all an opening prayer which this evening will be led by our colleague todd whitman and after that we will have the pledge of allegiance to the flag so i would ask everyone in chambers to rise and join us for both of these items please tonight i share with you a prayer by john wesley priest please pray with me well lord god almighty father of angels and of men we praise and bless your holy name for all your goodness and loving kindness to humanity we bless you for our creation preservation and for your unceasing generosity to us throughout our lives but above all we bless you for your great love in the redemption of the world by our lord jesus christ we bless you for bringing us safe to the beginning of a new day grant this that this day we fall into no sin neither run into any kind of danger keep us we pray from all things hurtful to body your soul and grant us your pardon and peace so that being cleansed from all our sins we might serve you with quiet hearts and minds and continue in the same manner until our life's and through jesus christ our savior and redeemer amen i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of right there are copies paper copies of the agenda in the rack in the rear of the room for those who are in chambers this evening we do have three amendments to make to this evening's agenda based upon the board of public works action upstairs and i believe the mayor is going to offer a motion to amend the agenda at this particular moment yes mr mayor i would move that we amend the agenda that is before us two and three items  from the board of public works and that we take them in the normal place for b p w items excellent sufficient mr city attorney to do so your microphone on you need to have to prove a purchase and sale agreement for property acquisition for the gas generation plant the second item is to approve a  that's what i thought is there are support for that supported by white men discussion on that all in favor of amending the agenda as so stated please say i post the same the agenda is in fact amended that then takes us to item for the consent agenda you look at the agenda whether in paper form or on a electronic device you'll note that there are a variety of items that have asterix next to them these are items that we believe are relatively routine or been previously discussed by coun so our intention is to handle them collectively regardless of where they show up on the agenda with one motion and one vote before we do that however we'll have a listing of those items that we all know what is on the consent agenda and then i'll offer an opportunity for anyone in the audience as well as members of council to remove an item from the consent if you would like to do so then we can do it in its ordinary course so let's first hear what is presently on tonight's consent agenda item five has to approve the minutes of the regular meeting held july tenth two thousand and thirteen item six to excuse the absence of council member climb pards eleven a to accept and file executed oaths of office fourteen a one to adopt a resolution to appropriate four million nine hundred ninety thousand eight hundred dollars from the electric utility funds for fiscal year two thousand and fourteen for the general purposes of the city fourteen d one to refer claims filed against the city to the city's insurance carrier and city attorney for consideration fourteen one point one  enter into projects specific written agreements with neighborhood nonprofit organizations for the distribution of budgeted funds for neighborhood improvement projects fourteen easy one point t to direct staff to amend the policies and procedures of the central neighborhood enhanced mint district program to allow nonprofit housing developers to access neighborhood enhanced but funds to rehab and resell homes to owner occupant in the central neighborhoods fourteen ethe re point one to declare various technology items a surplus and dispose of accordingly fourteen ethe re point to approve the purchase of two high definition television cameras for cable television video production from b and h photo at a total cost of eleven thousand one hundred thirty four dollars and six cents to be funded from the cable t v fund fourteen ethe reporting three to authorize the finance director to sign an agreement with tips taps purchasing consortium as another means for purchasing city equipment fourteen easy for point one to accept with appreciation donations totaling thirty three thousand four hundred dollars for the racing through education program to be used for educational programs fourteen easy four point two to accept the federal burn memorial justice assistance grant funds in the amount of ten thousand one hundred twenty seven dollars for police at thirty seven east eighth street and that the mayor and deputy city clerk be authorized to sign the agreement fourteen five point four to schedule a public hearing on request a tax abatement application for trans rica manufacturing three hundred forty eight st for wednesday august seventh at seven pm and to instruct the deputy city clerk to publish and mail the required notice all right that is what is presently on the consent agenda would anyone in the audience care to remove an item from that consent agenda and take that item in its ordinary course on the agenda seeing no one anyone on council create or remove an item and again seeing no one let hoekstra yes they are dykstra yes motion passes all right thank you that takes us then to item number twelve all the way down to twelve which is communications from the audience this is the opportunity in the meeting for any one of the audience to address counsel on items that do not otherwise appear on tonight's agenda so if an item you want to talk about shows up later in the agenda you can handle it at that point if there's something else on your mind you want to talk with us about here's your chance to do so all we ask is you step forward to the podium  so that everyone can hear what you have to say as well as stating your name and residential address for the record you'll note as we get to that point there will be a green light which will give you indication that you're free to talk council rules allow five minutes for public comment on an item green light means go yell indicates there's a minute left in your time and read means that the time has expired so at this point i will allow and open up the public microphone for anyone to address coun was here all the violation everything has been corrected the building does not have any problem with safety health or any other issues the only single was the roof himself it's fifteen years old and which is i have brought it to attention and missing his attention that we will go ahead and down the road and of next month we were going to start replacing the new roof because the roof himself is does not have any leaks or no violation at this that everything is good shape and no violations are open there were recommended by a neighbor who the department that should get a temporary license and be inspected once a month until everything updated or ran away to new things and if everything goes good for six months then there will be like every two months inspection on her property cost but today we were off the agenda so i don't know what to do when it's basically they are telling me to close the building right now until the works and are done but if like tying warner's hand and legs and tell them to move it's impossible because you know the business has to l run so we can generate the income to put it back in the building to make it the building looks more better and i have no clue what to say anything else more but we did everything what was required by the department of community and neighborhood at this moment presently they have no violations nothing and their recommendation was until yesterday to open it back up as a temporary license hot water heater we address that so now there's no danger to the customer whatsoever we address the parking lot the big issues that you had we replaced shingles so there was no longer she goes blowing off and that kind of repairs the rock it does need to repair i explained to mr cotton this morning that i am projecting the cost to him and we were planning on doing that ask for thirty days to get that part gotten that seems to be the big issues there's little things that he wants done in a workman manner which they will be done and i think if you talk to any of your inspectors even mr cotton and a gentleman that was there today that they have seen significant improvement since last time we met with you so now that he's actually he's really honored and make an effort why pull this away from me right now given the thirty days or more to get that roof done generate a little bit of customer you know so he can't he can't do this and you know i know you guys said you know no limits you know it's a tight rope but i think the tight rope to be loosened a little bit now that you are seeing major progress over there i mean we're talking pretty good chunks each time and i explained to cindy and the other inspector that every month we will hit them with the projects in the things that will be done and they will be done more you know my understanding is your explanation is they open up his license let him do his business as long as we have no violations and there's none there's far as cold wise that is violated yes it does need to be up to date for a little bit workmanship on the roof but this is stuff over ten years that hasn't happened now is happening so why are said we're going to pull it away from me where he has truly made and i i mean it really made some strong progress and i feel in another thirty days that i think we can honor you guys enough that you're going to come in here and not have these issues but we need the thirty days with enough and calm you know to rent these rooms out and keep what people they all got to be out there miles they're all playing that move and you know if we can stand there for thirty days i'm sitting here i'm telling you that they're rough will be taken care of and there will be major progress for you because look there we're just asking for that chance comment on what has been said thank you thank you mr mayor members of council when you stepped out i inform council that this was pulled from the agenda due to the need to have a look see that today just to co what a number of things and what was uncovered was that if one is on the former puppet parking lot which is raw to a large extent now one then sees that there is no shingles on the backside of the motel that is out of keeping with the requirements of what council had working like conditions required in our ordinance and it was in originally intended that this not come back before council until august seventh anyway to provide sufficient time for all major improvements so with that knowledge i chose my judgement to remove the item from the agenda as something i could not recommend to you at this time i think some of the assertions made and are are familiar to city staff they've been made for three quarters of the year and it was until this point till councils action where the serious progress made was accomplished so i think it's it's the public is due completion of this and by not having action tonight and requiring that the roof be completed with shingles is the appropriate thing to do under the public lodging license criteria recognise this is a public lodging business it is not temporary a rental housing it's not high density housing it's for the general public who are travelling through and it is not intended to be an apartment house if it were then you would not be dealing with a public  license this is a higher standard there has been substantial work done there what we saw a month ago has been for the most part taken care of there are still some tweaks that we pointed out right the issues however with  sub standard rough are going to be the sticking point right and as i told you this afternoon i think it would be a little bit premature for us to go ahead and do this  now if you came to us with a plan financials what have you and i know c j you've said a couple of times if i haven't got the income i can't have the outgo this is an investment it's a gamble i understand that and i i don't think it any point if we had them are moving target for you we've given you the staff has given you the list of defined violations there has been not moving target there those are accomplished you meet this criteria and it comes back so that you know it's a gamble i understand that i understand from business side of things but it's my understanding that you were going to have vacancy two weeks ago sorry you had occupancy until tomorrow we asked specifically to go into a few rooms that had been occupied the whole time cleaning as we pointed out a little questionable some of the leak in a couple of leaking faucets i'm not going to you know there's a couple of minor things giving you that x that extra time i think it was very clear and my colleagues can either dispute me or agree with me it was very clear that there was not going to be any extensions this was a one shot deal you had and as i said to perry he has made some substantial improvements when the back was to the wall for the last thirty days unfortunately he has to us also understand that we have been dealing with the city has been dealing with this for over nine months longer it's a it's a rock and a hard place we are not trying to put you out of business that is not the intent but as i said we're looking at health safety and welfare we're also looking at representation of the city and representation of yourself now the rough portion being substandard moses potential problems that i don't think it's unreasonable that that should be brought up to standards i understand what you're trying to do with it the type of material you had explained to me and asked idea if something was to happen there and we had given you a variance in this time i couldn't live with myself if i had given you the approval or if we gave you the approval prior to that being done i have to put myself in decisions like this i have to put myself in would i want to be there were something to happen now people are going to say well there's the doom day a doomsday sayer worst case scenario so and so forth i'm sorry that's the way i am when i subject myself to something like that no i would not and that's where i guess my recommendation to my fellow colleagues are you have made some improvements i appreciate that we all appreciate that but i think we made it pretty clear back in june five what our expectations were and to this point has not been done so you've got roughly two more weeks whatever is from now until the seventh to see what can be completed of that you know what i'm saying your inspection is telling me that this is the part right now granted it was all be redone what i'm suggesting and rather what this guy under you know all thirty days you see we i have honored what i said i would do when i come here and i'm telling you honor that part will have that rough on there i'll have his back taken care of but in the meantime so we get some for him and it's all going back to the business i mean he has spent honestly he hasn't denied me on anything yet the rough wasn't prize process type of price and then of getting it together i'll get it together get the roof on  i'll be there every day i'll walk back grounds every day for him for you and i'll make sure that at the turnaround what i'm asking the as you know give you the chance to rent these rooms to pay for this you come out there in thirty days and you don't see a that hold on a second councilman to bore want to ask a question or make a comment and believe yeah the problem is this is nine months down the road you came in the last month god bless you you're doing a great job and you're doing your best to get this done it is not dot the deadline is august seventh no one is supposed to be living there people have banned there day by day when the trend started were coming they were all moving out and they were still moving it out today thing is michael thing was it's get the all the major violation out of the way which is we're doing now the stuff we're doing you know keep them open and every month there will be inspection for the next six months and the project report given it to cindy but there wasn't everything perfect leverage and we were supposed to bring today with the council meeting but since we were out of the agenda hitting got a chance to go back to the contractor bring them out and get the all asked to meet and bring it to the counselors today so i understand exactly what you're saying but what i've tried to point out  and where deadline is august seventh and everything needs to be done by august seven and then open those doors wide and welcome the public and treat them with honor and it will be great but we have waiting till august seventh as soon as everything is done and that's what we clearly said at the last meeting and you are doing what we asked but you're not done yet keep it up keep going on the plan and there's huge hope for a wonderful grand opening on august seventh but that is what has been laid out the the question i've got and perhaps ryan or phil i don't know if you want to wade into this is the issue on the  roof the roof issue the the holdup ryan and again i apologize you may have talked about this earlier and i just was not present for are some items that are not workman like those items are less than any to date yet they're still present the big thing is the roof is is just nothing that you would see any other motel in is the standard that the roof is not done in a workman like situation or is it the standard that the roof violates the building code i'm going to answer that this way and then ask for clarification to a lay person it looks like it unfinished i'm told it does not leak though there are plenty of ripples in it which look like the kind of roof that i've laid before which deadly so i so is  that as a as i explained to mr patel and mr perry the technicals may have been addressed the subject of side of this is where we're coming into it and the and i guess we're going to have to look to the city attorney sometime in the in the very near future for maybe some definition and workman type of things but that's what it's boiling down to right now is the subjectivity of  what is workman like and that's you know staff did their their job as the letter of the law is that acceptable now from a workman standpoint you know you've got the right potential you've got the loose sand on the old course which during a good downpour is going to clog up the drains and go into the you know so on and so forth it's an erosion problem minor violations which i'm sure mr has probably got taken care of already this afternoon after after a visit that we hope and pray will be continued to be taken care of in a very timely manner in the future but those if i'm missing something ryan and the deck boards that we had seen before on the second floor we've got a couple issues there i pointed out to perry we've got some work some work of going on there pulled the screws out so on and so forth so  it's it's the technical versus the subjective i think is what it's coming down to right now and from the subjective side of things it's just not at the point where it should be and potentially could be addressed by august seventh but technically we don't believe the roof is leaking and that is you know that's the first criteria we look at is is there or is there a water problem but the workman like issue is part of our review on that process and how things are repaired and and put in place and there are areas there as well as other locations on the site that that we indicated that we're not not workman like  like yes i'd like to ask that question a little bit differently just for perspective  if in fact mr patel hadn't had nine months worth of violations backed up a few well and this was not a property that was and say an appeal process but rather it's just a routine r would those likely be signed off on i think we'd still have a workman like issue with us but it's i think it's very hard to separate the history on the property from the current conditions i would agree with everybody's comment the last thirty days have been major improvements throughout the property but it's the history of repeated problems and each time going out there discovering new problems that that put us in the position that we want to make sure that when it's repaired it's repaired and it's kept prepared so we want to make sure it's in that repaired form at the point you you authorize the public lodging license we want to see it and in good repair with council's concurrence here's how i think we can handle this and it's a bit of splitting the baby but let's notice that a special meeting for a week from tonight i will having a study session anyway this will be on the agenda and therefore it's noticed out so that if in fact th e work is completed by next wednesday we have the meeting noticed and we can approve the the the issuance of the permit at that time which is a week before the deadline we gave and if in fact it's not to that point we just cancel the special meeting and we just move right into our study session so that way it's on the agenda there is something set we get all the open meeting act noticing taken care of and ultimately if if it's not ready to go well then we just wait till the seventh but that way  mr patel doesn't have to wait until august seven for the next time that we get together to address this issue and you know to it's a seven day issue potentially as opposed to a fourteen day issue for him so if you're ok with that we're going to be meeting anyway we'll just set up a special meeting at that point and if he's ready to go and if we're ready to go then we can handle that and if not we wait to the seventh seem right all right ok compromise you're saying right now these license until and we gave you until august seventh to get the property ready to go and that has that's continued nothing has changed ok but we are saying is if ordinarily we would not met we would not meet until august seventh after tonight right what we're saying is we will have a meeting where we typically don't conduct business and take votes will schedule a special meeting one week from tonight so that if you're ready to go we can approve it one week from now instead of two weeks from now  but basically that the ruling the vote we took a month and a half ago whenever it was remains in effect an operational so whatever the net effect of that is on your occupancy and dealing with  the people who are presently living in the facility nothing has changed in what we said it back in june or may or whenever it was is what remains in effect yet right so next  week or the next meeting next week you're saying but things like if we start working on a roof is just the counselor board's going to look at that differently instead of say ok it's nothing done because you know in one week it's a bigger office not going to get out from tonight and essentially nothing more has happened other than we've begun getting some quotes i don't think that's going to cut it but if there's actual progress happening that these things are going to be taken care of there might be a way that you know we say all right the work is in progress with with you know reputable contractors and away we go ok i get i don't know what you're thinking on that issue ryan but but you know that's my concept is merely that you know i like to invest the money but same time you have been working with you and we understand that we appreciate that but we also it's not like i'm not going to come back we can later and so i haven't done anything i want my life well understood but you know as has been said multiple times this evening in the last time you were here this is not a new or fresh situation this has been ongoing for a long period of time so i wouldn't expect the rope to loosen too much it is a very tight rope as i think the description you've you've offered it and it has been done so for a reason and i don't know that we're not going to be completely inflexible but don't expect a lot of give on the part of the city because frankly we've been dealing with this for quite a while and we recognize the fact that substantial progress has been made since you were last year and we applaud you for it but the fact of the matter remains we had a certain decision that we made at this particular moment you're not at the point where you've satisfied that decision and so we're sticking with what we've got but what we are saying is that instead of having to wait two weeks if you're already in a week will be ready to approve so i would encourage you to take advantage of that if you can if you want to because we'll stand here ready to do so  if you're ready ok all right thank you thank you thank you guys your shit your shit the microphone remains open for anyone else who wishes to address council on items not otherwise on the agenda i believe we have a report from allegan county commissioner mr story who is giving us an update as to all things al again good evening mr mayor members of the council pleasure to be with you again for the record three forty four west thirty fifth in the city of howard a couple of things that i just wanted to update you on in the county last week we issued the state of allegheny county for two thousand and thirteen pretty happy with city manager but it's also of course on the very front page of the count website which is allegheny county dot org a couple of highlights of that report that i'd like to share with you for a moment that this evening is we've all been accustomed to the bad news of our economy and diden alleg county during the period two thousand and eight two thousand and twelve property values declined fifteen percent but since two thousand and twelve to two thousand and thirteen they've now actually risen some two point seven percent so it looks like we're  haven't had an eighteen percent decline in foreclosures year over year and then an eighteen point seven five percent increase in property sales so it looks like things there things are looking up  small items from the state of the county report is like all governments were finding looking for ways to be leaner and more efficient with the resources that the citizens give us to operate one of those was that we privatized the apparation of the county animal shelter county and county governments are responsible for taking care of taking care of those poor pets that and other animals that find themselves without homes and so we have contracted with a organization called the wishbone pet rescue to aberrate the county animal shelter and in two thousand and twelve they took care of nine hundred seventy four dogs nearly fifteen hundred kept also in terms of service response working with the federal communications commission we had to transfer our operations of our radio system from a to a narrow ban addition to dispatching our officers and other public safety officials the county dispatch system the radio system also dispatches volunteer fire people a lot of those fire people who reside in the rural areas of alleg county work here in the city or work and near in parts of ottawa county and they were to blindspots from that system after we installed it in october that we are now upgrading and one of them is right here in the would be the northeastern of saving costs we installed a video conferencing facility in all of the district and circuit court and probate court rooms and one of the reasons that it's helpful is that particularly for example when expert witnesses are needed for various trials you don't necessarily have to bring the expert witness into allegan that person could testify from wherever that person has their office and you know it saves the cost of of paying for that  finally i just want to talk about something i just took to attend it yesterday and that was in ottawa county as a matter of fact at the fillmore complex dr david lush an m s you water resources professor i was talking about the also participating in it but one of the things that i thought was most interesting is dr locke indicated he said you know down the road we're really extract more ground water there were requests able to replenish and so it may be necessary for municipal systems to take the place of wells sometime in the future in carrying a cultural products so it's something to keep on the horizon and i wanted to share that with you in terms of good news i also  to share with you that one of the some of silence that i get in the company is as a member of the alan county tourist cults and i wanted to give you a save the date card tobar nineteenth and twentieth we're having our second annual arts and for you to have in the future with that i that's all i have on my agenda put any questions about the county operations i'd be happy to take thank you mr commissioner other questions for our commissioner of the c evening seeing also congratulate you and the first lady of the city lay on your twenty with twentieth wedding anniversary understand is today so you leave us well and so are you best wishes and here we are thank you thank you very much thank you the microphone remains open for anyone who wishes to address council all right so ok we will then move to the added board of public works items and mr coster has sat patiently for us and we welcome you to the podium to introduce these three items and there are three very very good and important items for this community so well thank you and thank you for taking time to see evening to to add these items to the agenda  true that we spent some time earlier tonight talking through these but i think just to kind of back up a little bit and recall that in december of this past year we finalized a sustainable return on investment analysis that and there were several actions that we had recommended at that time a number of those have been accomplished including a couple of very think competitive wind resources that have come into our system  but we also made some key decisions about electric generation here in holland and how best to meet those needs going forward and a couple of the things that we had decided at that point was that you know the right direction for us was to invest in a hundred fourteen megawatt natural gas confine combined cycle unit which is a very efficient form of electric generation and also that in terms of where that would be located that that be located at a site other than the existing de young site and so we have begun the process of development activities on the combined cycle unit we've done a lot of work in terms of moving that process along we have an owners engineer on board with us that's helping us look at technology we're in the process of developing their permit application and a key part of the development process had to do with the site location over the last several months we have been considering a number of sites here in the area matter of fact that list was as large as nine at one point different sites and we looked at on a lot of factors associated with that including the amount of space that would be available access to roads access to things that are important electric generation like water and natural gas and certainly the transmission infrastructure they are going to interconnect and certainly the cost of the development capability of that site is also a factor when we look at the nine sites that were involved we really focused on say we looked at a number of of the sites and we're led based upon all of those factors to consider one site a primary site and i'm very pleased to indicate tonight that we've been able to reach agreement with a majority of our or a very sizable portion of the area that we've considered  for this next electric resource to be a the primary site and i think what we have is going to help us is a very key milestone in this development process and certainly is a corner store into the corner store into the community in terms of you know the location of this new energy resource and what it can mean because not only can it mean an efficient resource from electric per production standpoint but the site location that we have identified is close enough to the downtown area that allows us to continue to support the existing snow melt system and grow it over time but it also is ideally located in terms of being able to support if we're able to move forward on destroyed energy this certainly is a location that is supportive of that as well so with that the first recommendation that staff has is for approval and approval of a buy and sell agreement between in fairbanks and thank you mr mayor you have that image up on the the visual there all of the hashed properties all the the colored in areas within this diagram are owned by gail and allen herring and that represents the total area there represents nine point seven acres most of those parcels that you see there are vacant but there is one improved parcel as well and that is the  largest parcel there that borders the c s x rail and fair banks and kind of his real close to fist street intersection there and that is the former atmospheric processing company facility at that site so this purchase would be for all nine point seven acres of that with again between the city and allen and gale hearing the recommend the recommendation includes the price of that buy sell would be one point six million and that is based on a appraisal an independent appraisal that was done by david mature and a mature and associates who was retained by the  to value the property for acquisition it's important to point out that the property acquisition is contingent there are some investigations that we've done some surveys there are some preliminary environmental investigation for that site but we will be doing some more extensive environmental investigation on under what's called a phase two environmental assessment and this acquisition is contingent upon the results of that it's also contingent upon other studies that our owners engineer would deem necessary  including soil compaction studies and things of that nature to understand the suitability of the site for for development so again we have some other graphics on here as well i think just to kind of put the entire project in context maybe if you could that visual there is a representation of what this kind of plant could look like and i think is our intent to be similar to this type of picture what that shows there is that this is an enclosed building  you know some people have seen a combined cycle facility next to the interstate by zealand which is a tremendously outdoor facility i mean it's everything is outdoors this is the kind of structure that we're looking at to be  consistent with the architecture around the area and certainly pleasing to the gateway coming in from the east side of town and so you know this is the kind of structure that we're envisioning from this but also i think it's important to point out the timeline associated with this project as well again there are number of different aspects the development of this project certainly site acquisition is just one of those we are looking at again look going to the end of this chart we're looking at a commercial operation date late in two thousand and sixteen and there is some activity that we're going to have to do before we even start construction worker looking at major equipment right now and we're going to be putting out packages for bid on some of the large equipment later this year into next year or early part of next year we'll actually be putting out for bid a package to a construction firm and engineering joint venture team who would actually be charged with designing and building the plant and so there's a lot of work in negotiating those major command packages and getting the contractors mobilized in place for this along with filing an air permit which could happen as early as this coming  monday at the state of michigan's department of our whole quality and we're just getting having that permit sometime by the early part of and fourteen and so we've got a lot of work to do before we really even break ground site but we will be spending time over the remainder of this year if council approves this purchase in actually doing some remediation and demolition work on that old atmospheric processing building as part of this entire presentation that i'll be talking about tonight you'll understand that when we go back to that map and look at the herring property you see that it does comprise a lot of this area but not all of it we will be looking at doing some things to enhance the the the entrance way to the site as well by being able to possibly and most likely connect fifth street in with chicago drive where that is not currently connected we see that as being the most likely and best entrance way for the site there also be some other things that we bring in sites such as transmission infrastructure for the electric and some of the other water and gas lines and so it isn't dissipated they'll be other parcels that will be affected by this and certainly wonder stand that this project is very impactful not only to people who are using atmospheric processing as a place where their target currently doing are committed to go through this in a very thoughtful and open way with those residents that are in that area and we have developed a lot of information that will be on our website later tonight walsall be on our p twenty one decision dot com website that will be available we are also as part of the discussion tonight asking for the council to support the engagement of services on this procurement process for other parcels that are impacted and as i pointed out in the timeline we're looking at you know that issue where we would need to have a can parcels other than the atmospheric  engage those residents and property owners in that area early and start that process now so that they understand you know what kind of time you know we have in this process for them to be able to locate a place residents and businesses in that that area so it is a very exciting moment tonight we're very pleased to reach this milestone we think it's a very critical point in moving forward towards this cleaner more sustainable energy future for our community i think ultimately what we end up here will be an enhancement to the eastern gateway to the community as well and it's supportive of our goals in terms of being able to continue to provide energy in many different ways not just electricity as we move into the future so again the first recommendation that we have is for the approval of the pushes and sale agreement between the city and allen and gale herring for approximately nine sport seven acres of land and associated improvements at a price of one point six million again that price was contingent or was was based upon an independent appraisal and it's contingent upon the the completion and satisfactory results of face to environmental sussman and some other testing and i think it's also important to note that we are anticipating in october one close date for this property excellent thank you dave are there any questions for dave at this point seeing none how about emotion please who've read moved by de boer and supported by truth who we and one of the audience care to address council on this item writes then discussion among members of council please anyone oh yes mr one question i'm going to to direct  became home for us and what year was that a long time ago they had a major fire there in the late sixties that's so thank you for drawing that out while you were stumbling my i thought i to say yeah all right any other discussion members of david pleat question a clarification was a motion to act on just the real estate purchaser also we want to do three separate so just the real estate purchased issue board this has been a long process that had a more than a few bumps in the road but certainly an important part of this overall process of you know the timeline process of getting this plant up and running and i think this could well be one of the most important decisions that we will make this year because it sets in motion a whole series of events that will not just affect us but really will affect their children and grandchildren because this now becomes the site at which the principle generation for this utility for this community will occur and you know just like we sit here now and jokingly ask is this the home or holland furnace site i mean some years from now another group of people be sitting around this table talking about what this site used to be now that it's our power generation facility so kudos to you all of our plaudits for the work that you've done i know you've put in lots and lots and lots of hours on it and i think we're just all very excited to be moving forward on this project so congratulations well thank you and i really do a lot of that to the team you know at the b p w including the board members who have been very instrumental in getting this to the finish line so actually wonderful all right then let us call the roll pl need to address the first is the retention of the coldwell banker we have in approve a service agreement with coldwell banker woodland schmidt for a six percent commission with a minimum of twenty five hundred dollars per transaction that would be for buyer agency services associated with the purchase of property needed to complete the development and construction of new net gas fired combined cycle generation resource rights any questions for dave on that particular item otherwise a motion a support supported by who anyone in the audience care to address this item at all any members of council want to make comment on this or anything related to the overall project  i think it's great to have a package in place to help people and it's a hard thing to have to move and whatever in in relation to this wonderful project there will be individual sacrifice and i appreciate  getting a company and and trying to help people as much as we can but the launching of this project does feel like phoenix coming out of the ashes i mean there are days when you kind of think well how is this going to be resolved how can we satisfy everyone and i guess we can't satisfy everyone where what kind of source of power are we going to use we have so many different sure ratz and conversations and experts we brought in such a long process of studying energy and the best way to approach the future of it in this area but lot of times it felt like has mick questions  even from an engineering standpoint and and all kinds of controversy and so it feels especially sweet to come to a point where there's rational resolution out of power source and kind that's going to work and is economically viable and a piece of property that helps us do all that well and even expands our favorite little project of snow melt and so and it will be a nicely done building as well as you said and i think you know in december when we were able to get through recommendations and see the consensus builder on those recommendations i know its staff and i think as as the board and council it was a good feeling to know that you know we're all sort of you know moving on the right you know in the same manner now and i think you know i have a similar kind of feel willing being able to get the site selection understood that it really starts to make the project gel and  you know so we're very excited about it it really feel has felt like the reenactment of the city seal in unity is our strength god be with us and it did seem as a bit of a miracle as  unity did develop and such consensus and strength of purpose that we could be at this point and that this piece of property would be available and and that all these pieces came together so it's an amazing amount  of work and expertise from all different people and i'm very thankful and honored to be a part of this decision dave just a quick question we do we have an idea at this point that  to talk individually with the affected property owners first of all the ones that will be approaching but we have an idea as to what kinds of things we are going to offer them in obviously we're going to offer  at minimum fair market value but maybe you can talk a little bit about that so you know people who are wondering what the board and maybe just so i don't talk out of school on it at all it's probably best for andy to go ahead and delineate some of those responsibilities that we have excellent city attorney please well one of the things i want to emphasize this has been characterized as property acquisition services but there are really two bookends here the acquisition of the property but also the assistance that coldwell blunt banker will provide in relocation because we believe that that's an important part of the acquisition process that we're not just acquiring property but we're also trying to assist them in locating another structure or another residence the moving costs that are a part of that process so that is all intra gold what is in the service agreement with colo bank or on the acquisition side michigan as a result of initiatory referendum has a standard on residential property that we must acquire at at a price of one hundred twenty five percent of fair market value so michigan is really a minority states from the standpoint of saying that if you're going to do a public improvement project and you're going to acquire residential property you're going to pay a twenty five percent premium on that cell the third item that council has tonight is the valuation services process we want to make sure that all of these properties are individually appraised that we have properly done our job in terms of affording those property owners the fair market value plus the enhanced value so the one hundred twenty five percent aspect is an important prop part of the acquisition process but again the other item of the book and that i mentioned is that we plan to provide relocation services assisting them in the process of finding a new residence this is all a part of the responsibility of coldwell banker in dealing with the issue and the council should know that you know no later than tomorrow morning some time each affected property owner will receive correspondence from coldwell banker that establishes that relationship that identifies them as the contact in this process and delineates and he says that those services that go beyond buying but gold and go into the relocation services and assistance and finding other other places excellent ok thank you for that information i think that's helpful for everyone to hear and understand we do have a motion i believe a final comment to provide that appropriate fair market value and so and to assist in that process we are recommending approval of a service agreement with van norden associates for property valuation services in the amount of two hundred fifty dollars per residential parcel or an hourly rate of one hundred forty five dollars an hour not to exceed three thousand dollars per any commercial or industrial property x let any questions for dave on that i would like to be done we are not there we're getting close to the page then to fourteen be there go five point one some gifts please the city manager's office is pleased to report receipt of the following gifts one thousand dollars from the sally l john trust to support environmental education programs at the digraph nature center and one hundred dollars from the clump arents family in support of repairs to the one mill it was recommended that these donations be accepted with appreciation credited to the appropriate accounts and expression of gratitude be forwarded to the donors you have heard the report what is the pleasure of counsel motion to accept  support supported by whiteman nancy is the reading about doug the endor quiet racing through education all right but any comments at all all in favor please say i i pose the same that passes that then takes us down to item fifteen tonight communications from the city manager ryan please i only have one item mr mayor and that is a special human relations commission meeting it's been called for tomorrow at five thirty in this room all members of the public are welcome we had some very bizarre incident on saturday night that evokes the need to have this meeting and to listen to people hear their concerns  share whatever facts we've encountered by that time and found out and also just look to the future to become and be the community that we all want to be all right thank you and i will also comment on that again five thirty tomorrow this room part of the meeting will be to have a better understanding as to where we stand on this particular issue what we know what the police are doing and i will say that the investigation is ongoing and that the police have dedicated quite a few resources to this to this issue trying to understand and frankly build a case as big and strong case as they can on a variety of issues related to what we saw happen but also part of the meeting will be to publicly reaffirm the fact that this is a community that doesn't tolerate racial intimidation this is a community that wants to be a place that everyone can call home and every not just not just live here but call home and by that we mean fully participate in the life of this community and that is an important statement that we need to make as a community whenever these kinds of random and isolated incidents seize occur and it doesn't matter that the the suspects who have been apprehended don't live in the city that's not an important facet for us though they  don't the incident happened the matter happened in our city and really it's a community matter all around so tomorrow five thirty they'll be a variety of options to both listen to learn and to share related to this particular matter i don't sorry i'm a little do i have an appointment tonight we do sixteen you or we go sixteen a i would ask that we  you consider the reappointment of nathan box to serve a second term in the district library board which expires june thirtieth two thousand and seventeen and also because he's not busy enough to reappoint a fox for a second term the compensation commission for a seven consider those an act on those items please moved by peter's support supported by the bor any discussion all in favor please say i post the same all right that passes one final thing for me aside from the usual announcement that you can get ahold of us at city hall and dot com to find out how to contact us through email through telephone cetera but also find out lots of information about the city of holland about what is going on in this community  things that are happening forms that you can get on line all property tax informations on line in many ways you may not have to set foot very often the building if you don't want to you want to obviously would love to have you come by  but a lot of information available on the city's website accessible twenty four seven three sixty five one final item and commissioner story did did allude to it and this is that twenty years were thinking i haven't the foggiest idea that he quite candid with you nonetheless today is my twentieth wedding anniversary and i of course had a council meeting this evening which is wonderful nice to be with you also my wife had a  work meeting and work dinner as well so she was otherwise occupied so who says that romance is dead right when you go to a meeting and she can go to a meeting and we can celebrate our anniversary in that way but in all seriousness i'd be remiss if i didn't say i love you dear and i'll be home soon communications from members of council please love  of congratulation well thank you mike please oh and in light of some unfortunate situations that we've had in the city we've got a very positive situation coming up next week tuesday july twenty third  mr birch has been known for his party neighborhood party ward so we're going to bring it to his area the moran park i know you're inferring there marty in the park  park five thirty the one we just had it rosa parks green was absolutely fantastic yes we ran out of food ran out of prizes and those are good things to run out of very well attended very well behaved and i think everybody had a fantastic time talking to some of the officers and some of the other volunteers there it was greatly very very successful and yes i'm stumbling mr mayor no comment so we're going to see if mr birch can can hold up his end of the deal and throw the party of parties this might be dairy legendary party of challenge accepted tuesday the twenty third come one come all five thirty to seven i think about labor day wonderful thank goodness summer's summertime anyone else communications issued and nancy please i think also miranda has a park a party tomorrow at allen park  thirty starts food for anyone under eighteen free lunches and the party runs from noon to two o'clock a gorgeous cullen park so it's nice when other people come in and do parties too and although the city staff works so well and  randa mentioned how much she appreciated working with the hauen city staff the police and the parks department and the mayor being so supportive of the parks party in holland so we're glad to be able to host that as well and what i really struck me too on the agenda tonight was the little quiet mention about the thirty three thousand dollars donated by vander corps proper education through racing racing through education zari where we work with youth in the area and help them think about what happens with speed and driving and texting and alcohol and all that's related to that and he does an excellent job on his own time putting together this whole effort to encourage safety with youth and on automobiles or trucks or whatever they drive and so it's an amazing afeard and i just am so grateful for thirty three thousand dollars to help improve the safety and the responsible driving of youth in the area so thank you doug and company indeed hennie one else otherwise appointments this evening i believe th authority three year term ending june thirty what the sixteen and i make that in the form of emotional right we have it moved by the mayor pro tem is their support so it's supported by two or three any discussion all in favor please say aye i oppose thank you and good night everyone