serious place and fortunately there's nobody transcribing this meeting tonight as well because that would be unfair to them in any event we begin tonight meeting first of all the roll call to make sure we have a quorum present so that we can conduct business and for that we  we begin first of all with an invocation which this evening will be led by our colleague from the sixth ward where i had a member left there for a second councillor david hookes tra immediately thereafter we will have the pledge of allegiance to our flag which tonight we are privileged to have with us from sydney ohio cody carr who is working on a merit badge for as a boy scout situation so sydney's back there so after the invocation is over sydney if you just want to come right up to the podium here with the i'm sorry cody from sydney yes he can just come for the microphone here and lead us in the pledge right after the prayer is done all right great great to have you both in our state in our community and here in chambers tonight the kid knows how to celebrate spring break if i ever saw you with that if you're in chambers tonight we invite you to rise and join us in these items if you're watching at home would invite you to join us please hospitality to so many is one we relish and we ask you to bless us with good weather and see if experiences will think we're thankful for the spirit in action of those who serve and protect us may we remember and care for them as you do and we're excited about new projects and developments from new streets and power plants to new establishment so like pizza ranch so much is good and we do not take that for granted but it's hard to escape the fact that there is a darker side to life recent events point to suffering in despair he would actions birth for what we might believe to be your will can have hurtful consequences or may we never become so convicted of our own correctness that we feel to hear our another's point of view or understand them for it may be through them that you speak may we be so humbled by the unqualified love you show us as the christian world so overeats this week those friends neighbors and leaders are overwriting motivation is to serve each other with gladness we're not perfect lord but we're working out we praise you for your patience amen you david and thank you for that we appreciate it and if you don't stick around to the end of the meeting tonight i want you to know that all of our meetings are both being broadcast live on local television as well as through the internet but they're also recorded so you can if you go to the city of holland's web page city of holland dot com give us a day or so to get the kinks worked out this meeting will be posted to the website and you can show all your friends and neighbors what you did over spring break so thanks again for being here we appreciate it  a paper copies of tonight's agenda in the rear of the room there's a rock there or if you have an electronic device of some sort you can find not only the agenda but also all the background material council has reviewed in preparation for this evening's material for this evening's meeting by going to the city's website at city of holland dot com and go to the calendar page today's date and you'll find all the material that we've looked at for this evening's meeting as you review the agenda tonight you'll notice that there are a slew of items tha an asterisk next to them and these are items that we believe are relatively routine or councils previously discussed in depth these items in our intention is to handle them collectively wherever they show up on the agenda with one motion and one vote before we go any further and i will talk about how we can amend that process in a minute but before we go any further i'd like to ask our deputy city clerk to read for us right now the items that are going to be handled with this consent agenda one motion one vote item so and we turn to you item five to approve the minutes of the regular meetings held in march for any teen study session how march often and close session help marched twenty five two thousand and fifteen item fourteen a one to approve insurance programs with liberty mutual and star tech to provide builder's risk insurance in the amount of four hundred fifty six thousand one hundred twenty five general liability umbrella and excess liability with gemini ace in durant and aspen in the amount of five hundred forty four thousand six hundred ninety two and for professional liability my ability coverage with w a c in the amount of three hundred four thousand four hundred twenty five dollars for the construction of the new  park item fourteen need to to approve a contract with pitch companies in the amount of thirty thousand six hundred ninety dollars for the demolition of the hauen wyoming valve and meter station located at wyoming water treatment plant pending approval s to form by the city attorney item fourteen e three to approve an amendment to the grow america agreement for the annual lease of up to six hundred acres at a cost of two hundred dollars for a potential additional cost of one hundred twenty thousand dollars per year for application of biosolids from the howland area waste treatment plant pending approval as to form by the city attorney item fourteen do you want to refer claims filed against the city to the city's insurance carrier and city attorney for consideration fourteen d two to approve a deal with liquor permit for and they've been the one located at ten eighty lincoln avenue suite one thirty with conditions as established by the public safety department item fourteen one point one to schedule a public hearing for wednesday april fifteenth two thousand and fifteen to obtain citizen comment on the new action plan and the propose use of fiscal year two thousand and six community community development block grant entitlement funds item fourteen  point one to adopt a resolution scheduling a public hearing in assess city for wednesday april fifteenth for the eighth street in columbia ave snow melt improvements and to instruct the deputy clerk to publish and mail the required notices to property owners item fourteen  two point two two adopt a resolution to vacate street including fairbanks avenue north of seven street as well as fifth street six street and i come a court in the vicinity of fairbanks avenue to comply with em datz requirement to  vacate street for the purpose of act fifty one reporting requirements item fourteen e's three point one two except as information in the february two thousand and fifteen monthly financial reports as presented i fourteen e's three point two two approve the participation for the state of michigan's joint purchasing program for the two thousand and fifteen two thousand and sixteen road stop purchase in the amount as indicated in city managers report item fort important public works for the construction of so many transmission lines from the new holland and or g park and importing the five point three to change city council meeting schedule with the cancellation of the april eighth study session and may  sixteenth may sixth two thousand and fifteen regular meeting all right thank you and so that is what we're going to handle collectively all together wrapped up with a vote now just because we think some of these items or all of these items are routine and we think they're worthy of handling together you might have actually shown up tonight this first nice night of the year april first to be here to discuss one of them and you might prefer that we actually take it in its ordinary spot if you would like us to do that all you need to do at this point is to step forward to the microphone tell us what item off that list you want removed from it and then we'll take it up where it normally shows up in its agenda so anyone from the audience care to remove an item from the consent agenda tonight change in council meeting schedule right anyone else supported by their poor any discussion on this i'll just make one note one of the items that is on the consent agenda the the automatic aid agreement that we're signing with fillmore township in lake town township i only say this it makes a lot of sense from a public safety standpoint and also makes a lot of sense from a neighborliness standpoint and i can tell you that our relationships especially with fillmore township which in the past have been a bit rocky are i think in very good shape and this it refers to something that refers to something entirely different as nothing to the golf course but instead it has to do with some repairing right issues like mac developers l l c in the south shore a condominium association this was tabled two weeks ago and first of all to get it back on the floor we need to remove interim director of community neighborhood services joel di a good evening joel thank you mayor and thank you city council tonight city council is being requested or recommended to enter into every sceptical fairway navigation it would make mac developers south shore of our condominium association and the city which will eventually allow the city of holland to install a future shop or dock at five sixteen west sixteenth street and allow the developer do install docks to the far eastern part of their property at five forty five crescent drive and that back on what i'd like to do is just go over a few images on the screen before you this evening so council and the audience and those who are home watching t v will have a good understanding of what we're talking about the city of holland currently owns five sixteen west sixteenth street this is a property that's highlighted by the red arrow it's where the heinz waterfront boardwalk terminates on the sixteenth street the boardwalk continues easterly in front of heinz always down to common park this larger area right here is the former crescent shores marina it was a marina for quite some time and is currently being developed into a waterfront residential living project currently there are three docks that project into lake mecca taua and that is the developers desire to remove those three do install two residential docks that will be available for you know residents of that waterfront development it is the city's desire to install a shop or dock at the edge of our property which is again highlighted by the red arrow for the city to install this shopper doc we need the developer to give us what is called a navigational easement over there a period of water rights for property owners who have waterfront property they not only own the land  the house sits on but in their rights for ownership to extend into the water out to the center of the lake this is true for private properties as well as for public property such as the city have and here so to recap the city is looking to install a shop or dock here in the future the developers looking to install two docks as shown on the screen immediately for us to install our shop or dock we need the developer to give us navigational easement over their right period and you know rights likewise for the developer to install this long dock on the eastern part of their property they need to give us a navigational easement or we need to give them a navigational easement over our riparian water rights so that's the thing that's before and council tonight this was tabled it your last meeting to allow some discussion to study session you discuss that again earlier this evening it's a recommendation of staff that this you know this reciprocal easement be granted and you authorized the deputy city clerk and the mayor to sign that easement all right thank you joel at this point as i think i told you before my bank is the entity providing financing on this project so out of an abundance of caution and you know accordance with our conflict of interest policy had asked to be recused from the discussion and vote on this item of the mayor pro tem will take over the meeting at this point so with your request i would well with that request that i ask you to act on it all right we have heard the recommendation of staff and i guess to get things rolling here we probably ought to have a motion to to get the item before us closure  when you get something that doesn't feel right with your gut he said ponder it you sit in or you investigated look into it is a couple things that just don't sit well with me first of all this is been going on for quite some time and it seems like the eleventh hour all the sudden we're coming to the table now with a change that doesn't sit well the other thing that doesn't sit well is that we're losing some of our property to maximize the profit to be made on these condos i don't know there's no other way to put it the only reason we're understanding that this is happening is to maximize vision from the homes that are being built there again coming in at the eleventh hour just and said well know how we got this far it did so i just i cannot support this the way it is i understand it i understand what we're trying to do there but i think there's different ways that we can do this without giving up some of our rights in this in this location especially coming in as it is at this late this late hour in this whole process buildings are starting to go up and l the sudden it's well that's enough you get what you lose a you never get it back and that's very true it's a resource that we need to consider and look at and handle very judiciously and cautiously so i think if i'm reading you correctly where i think you are i think that's part of the reason that so it causing this concern to your partner and i firm that as i'm looking at this i see one opportunity for the city it is i'm understanding our riparian rights in this our opportunity of operation here is a rather narrow exist that's that fifty foot with or whatever it is that extends out correct correct the our waterfront it just fifty two feet in length right so if we ever were to build a longer work for a dock then we're anticipating here would have to be so shallow a slip that i'm not sure we'd be able to accommodate other than living out of the rather small boat and i'm not sure that that would fit our into subpoenaed purposes so as i view this proposal  are concerns about water front so usage and conservation not withstanding it seems to me to be a pretty fair compromise and a good use for both parties i think i understand whether i agree completely or not with the the a line of sight considerations for the developers i get it i understand why they're concerned with that and why that would cause the placement of the docs as they're proposing it i think it leaves us enough latitude at some point to install shopper's dock that would serve this this part of the city well we're not going to get any huge boats docking there  i think might go aground if we do anyway so it might in my view appreciate mice concerns to me it represents a pretty good compromise and search suits the purposes of both the city  the developer i don't think without risking a lot to the city so that's just my take on it thank you david and the other comments oh yeah thank you and with all respect to mike's concern about that i think it brings up a couple of really good points in looking ahead however we were trying to develop that western gateway and if it really goes up this far not i guess could be debatable but i think maybe it does this does not mean that this doc is going to be built it probably would cost somewhere between seventy and one hundred thousand dollars in order to do that and a shopper's or e another launching area might be a column park or in the future of b b w or somewhere along with the whole sure but i think it at least is a beginning and i think we're trying to develop that i ask the same question that mike asked during the planning commission when this was brought up and i i again i understand i said what i said that that night as well i don't understand why it can't be moved over a couple feet ten feet and i understand just for cation and to maximize the property values i think it's in the mutual interest of the city as well to have that property is valued as as valued as possible as high as value is possible so i reluctantly get behind this i think we'll be able to use that navigational easement for ourselves as well we will be getting a potential dock we get that built that will as to reiterate wayne help the commerce along that south shore commercial district which i also believe has a strong potential to be our next great commercial area in town and we want to see that area thrive as much as possible for now and into the future so i'll be supporting this as well you're right nancy you know this has been short but intense conversation over the last few weeks because as mike said it came to our attention recently and we realize the unbelievable value of one of the last like front areas in the city of highland so it wasn't easy to figure out whether this was in the best interest of the city or  not but i thinks to some changes at the last meeting i think it's probably the best that we can do at this point and i do think it is possible to have a shopper for people to be able to ride their boats up and walk to the shopping area on seventeenth and grow that whole feeling as well as the boardwalk to collin park and it does really emphasize that holland is on the water and we want to celebrate that as much as possible i love the synergy of a new development investment and i ran restaurant on the corner there as well as a restaurant for their down that's coming in and all of that will be great synergy and i can't wait to see people ride their boats up and get out i just think that's awesome so i wouldn't say it's plan a but it's plan b concerns and the various points of view i will say just for the record that this i think this was shown back to two thousand and eight in something like this so it wasn't until recently that there was any any issue known and that dealt with the permits that were needed from the state for creation of of the stock for the development and at that point it also became clear that if there was not a change then the city's rights to do the so called chopper dock would be impacted and precluded as well so this represents a something that is a again for for both and all parties in that it's the emphasis of the word use is reciprocal and that's part of the title for this item there is a reciprocal exchange relationship here that is being as on your table before you the only question there would be main is is it purely reciprocal well one of the city's rights are closer to the shore so shorter dark is necessary to get to them and the other rights are further out as expensive to get to those and i think that would take an appraisal to actually determine for sure how that would vary and i will say that one reason this is a noun is it's in the water there's i was in a fence lines or shrub mines or anything to demarc the riparian rights so for reasons that go back to former generations this this was simply something that was unknown until recently thank you to anyone else just just a question mr circle do you happen to have a scale drawing a scale of the way these you'll draw lines there that growing right there is is actually the base layer of that is an aerial photo showing the existing docks superimposed with the with the proposal for the new docks on top of it i just wondered how close proposed shoppers dock is going to be there because i as i said before we've got a very narrow with your last leg the fourth leg up and if they park a boat in there you've just chopped off a very good portion of getting into the shopper's down yeah so if you look on there that green area that shown on there that's approximately thirty nine and a half feet wide ok just to give you a sense of scale there so what we're proposing is to provide an easement to the city over the eastern most thirty nine and a half feet so there you can see how that shows the three finger piers in the southeast corner being removed i v so we appreciate the concerns of that last finger pier and certainly will try to make that so that that that works that's not going to pose a problem for the for the if you put a baby in your fingers what forty two feet if i'm seeing that right and i don't know if they're that long i get it whatever the case may be if we're looking at one and a half times the the link that you peer if that's at forty you only got a forty foot easement there to begin with now you've got to the stern of the boat sit now in the in the riparian right we have about no access or very limited access to be able to get modes in there that's one of my major concerns yeah you know i think the way it laid only the d e q was looking at it they thought there'd be sufficient room to get in there along with what the city has for it so i think you're still cities properties of fifty to fifty two and a half feet fifty two and a half so you have the width of your main pier coming out then the finger pier off of that so you've got you know somewhere in that distance to work with plus a thirty nine and a half feet from us all approximately ninety feet to get everything in there you know and technically we've got forty feet because it's the only opening that you have between the end of your finger in the end of our finger and i appreciate your concerns and all this i think you know the thing to keep in mind i mean the way that sits now i mean that this is something that's been inherited by both sides the city acquired their property in two thousand and two my clients acquired the property prior that but for forty some years that doc had been sitting there right on the right period line and so obviously with that dock sitting there you know we talk about is this what is the city giving up i think with that dock sitting there right now i think there's a question as to what the city even has to begin with so i mean i i see it as a net gain we're trying to make this as a compromise and provide some benefit to the city and and to allow something to move forward so i think that's the the other comments well just one other question i don't know if bill knows what do we have any idea how the depth of the the water there are currently so if we were to build a dock in there that we indeed do have enough to make a way i do not know that information i'm sorry whatever it is it's about a foot deeper than it was last year that if we don't exchange this right for some additional right our rights farther out for some additional rights closing closer in the owners have the option of leaving the ins existing structure there and probably making some renovations to it and we are completely shut out of the ability to put any sort of a recreational dock there so i because some great possibilities there by getting this opportunity i think that only enhances those opportunities so i'm willing to support this please call the r you know peters yes birch yes fantasy yes right that takes us then to item ten a and b had the option of ordinances to actually attend a b and c we have three ordinances up for adoption each of them require a public hearing the first of which is an amendment to the fair housing ordinance in the city of holland and for the last we turn to our city attorney to introduce the matter before we have a public hearing run vanderveen please thank you mr mayor the federal fair housing act which prohibits discrimination in housing and that's been applied to pr discrimination that's caused or brought about by zoning ordinance is adopted by cities or are townships and so this proposed ordinances attempt to provide for accommodations for persons with disabilities so that  the zoning ordinances that have to be discriminating against them it applies to persons who are defined as as having a disability which would be persons that have physical or mental impairment that limits one or more major life activities does not include persons with the amended language that is proposed there would not include persons who are using illegally or addicted to a controlled accommodation it spells out in paragraph d the what's required to be filed by a person seeking accommodation and my say a person seeking accommodation it can be both disabled persons or it can be a person that's not to say well that wants to operate a home for disabled persons it does not apply to homes that are required to have state licenses where it where the city's preempted from zoning regulation and then it provides for the zoning necessary to make the housing available for persons with with disabilities whether it would pose any undue financial hardship administrative burden upon the city whether there'd be a fundamental alteration in the nature of the city's zoning program whether there are alternate accommodations that could provide an equivalent benefit amended language that's proposed there whether an onsite manager should be required whether the accommodation will actually benefit the disabled persons and then lastly whether there's another accommodated hope when than five hundred feet of the proposed home these are standards for consideration by the zon board they would apply and based on the evidence presented to them at the hearing and determine whether to grant a special exception their decision under paragraph after has to be made within forty five days so it's done promptly thinkers zoning board has never had a problem with that in the past but it's it is a required provision there ok any questions for the city attorney saying no this is the time of the place for the public hearing in this particular matter public hearings under the rules of council we ask you to step forward the microphone so everyone in chambers can hear what you have to say as well as people watching at home please state your name residential address for the record and council rules permit up to five minutes to address council on any item and the way we handle that is that as soon as you begin speaking if you look immediately below me you'll see a green light turn on when it hits for a minute the light will turn yellow and when it hits five minutes and turns red it means your time is expired you have to use it all but you have up to five minutes to address council and i will now declare the public hearing to be open good evening and welcome members my name is jeff them trees and a local lawyer residential address in michigan's two zero eight seven like street and how and  i represent building men for life which is a nonprofit five a one c three charitable organization which has for the over the past five years  and operated number of recovery residences there are currently twelve that we run ten of which are within city limits before i go much farther i'd like to put a letter on the public record i brought enough for the i want to take it down to the city clerk i shall both put the official copy in the record as well as pass the copies down to us thank you ordinance which i think goes a long ways towards the promoting reasonable recovery residents as having said that i think there were there was a provision a very problematic as to whether that's going to be enforceable in federal court although that we don't have a current factual situation where we run two or more recover residences with and five hundred feet and the bottom line is that in order for it to be enforceable under the what i consider to be officially discriminatory ordinance of that section of the ordinance it would be up to the city the show and just of violence in other words to cities burned to show why the five hundred foot spacing requirement benefits the disabled people which are alcoholics and addicts in recovery by definition so i'm not sure whether that's ever been addressed by the city council i don't believe it was addressed by the planning commission and i i just bring that up for the councils consideration the second issue is the what apparently is a requirement for on site management that would put a very onerous financial burden on every single recovery residents run not just in the state of michigan bug throughout the united states and that is something that is in brief phone call with joel this afternoon but i i really question whether that is something that's necessary needed it certainly doesn't benefit right with that we will close the public hearing on this item we have the proposed or else before us would probably ought to get a motion on the floor before we begin any sorts of discussions and i would open the floor for  three and supported by de boer the the motion that was recommended the proposed ordinance and i mean that was before us in the package correct all right the discussion mr city attorney any thoughts comments on anything in anything else you want to add to this before we have further counsel discussion just just two comments to make clear i one is that this doesn't apply to existing recovery houses nonconforming uses that could continue assuming they're legally existing currently because this is a zoning ordinance secondly the two items mentioned by mr van trees are factors to be considered by the zoning board but not mandatory requirements and in the review of that and the zoning board certainly would have to review it  consideration of one of the standards which is of benefit to the disabled persons all right council discussion if any we've had some discussion before on this when the commission has discussed know my heart for the accommodation aspect of this at the same time i think it's incumbent upon us as a council to make sure we understand the nature of home such as this and licensure and making sure that we're doing our diligence in understanding that in the qualitative aspects that i'm with these things and so i think some of you know where i'm going to go know scare me comments like oh i think you know certainly mr entries raises some very fair points and i think for for persons who perhaps like all of us who haven't really experienced how the fare for housing work for fair housing laws intersects with our local ordinances i think we probably were you know unaware of some of the interplay and the tests that have to be applied in the and i think that by placing some of these factors as factors and not as flat out requirements it helps us ensure that we're living not only up to the law but the spirit of the fair housing law and i think it's important that if in fact it is important for persons in recovery to find themselves living in neighborhoods and in traditional residential settings that we do all that we can to ensure that  ordinances encourage and help support what we're talking about do it with what that they're talking about doing and that is to not create you know a row of institutions where persons in recovery live but instead truly living in single family residential traditional kinds of neighborhoods and that's how i view these are amendments here that's how i view these factors and i think at this point we are in good shape perhaps in someone telling us differently too to view this these amendments as as good options and good policy for this community and i won't call the roll because i believe our colleague from the fifth ward here would like to make a motion on a procedural matter yeah i would i would like to make a motion that we tabled this matter to our next step in pick up on our next study session with some guidance from our city attorney on just a broad look at group homes and license or within the state of michigan in the spirit as you suggest mr mayor the spirit of the fair housing act is he's a little bit more than just fair housing on the face there's a qualitative aspect and there's a as you suggested a spirit of single family residential scattered site throughout the community cetera et cetera so there's a lot in  there and i think it is just worth one more study session to make sure that we're capturing all that you brought up so if if if i understand you correctly in essence you are asking counsel to table this matter until the week of the thirteenth of may because we do not have a study session next week council meeting on the fifteenth study session the twenty second of  april in our first meeting in may assuming we approve the change in schedule because of tulip time moves to the thirteenth of may so you want to table it with thirteenth of may if that's the chronology yes or no and i will support that all right we have a motion thirty feet of three o seven east eighth street from the r three to the c two district and at this point we all say collective thank you for maps and we welcome our friend to pollute to show us what it is regular voting out c which happens to be the owner of the whole imports holland imports into holland imports a car repair a facility right here on the state street they have  requested that their properties be rezoned from the r three district to the c two highway commercial district this procedure has gone to the planning commission in pup and the required public hearing was held on march tenth the planning commission did not receive any comments at all for among the general public at that time planning commission recognize that there is a big huge development going just immediately to the north of here and the b p w power plant and indeed the b p w has a been working with the the applicants the brunettes in regards to this proposal in is noted in the brunettes properties and remove those two last remaining residential structures in basically this entire neighborhood and that's close to the future b t w power plant site so  yes so the planning commission there again looked at the master plan the master plan for this area is goes back to the downtown sharpening the vision plan from two thousand and seven two thousand  eight it's actually called and in that plan is actual conference to be rezoned to the c three district keep in mind at that time there was absolutely no idea on the behalf of the planning commission or city council probably even the b that there was going to be a power plant going in this neck of the woods in which is kind of dramatically changing in changing the landscape so the planning commission recognize that the master plan is just quite simply out of date  recommending that the city council rezone these three properties and a portion of a fourth property to the c two districts all right thank you mark any questions for staff before we have the public hearing seeing on this is the time in the place of the public hearing on this matter again if you were to address this item here's your chance to do so please step forward to the microphone name and residential address for the record you have up to five minutes to address cancel the public hearing is open right seeing no one we will close the public hearing and we have the recommendation from the planning commission as described by mr bennett who before us what are the pleasure of coun for section fourteen dash four point three dealing with appeals and administrative variances and again we invite mr di to enlighten us as to what it is we will be dealing with we've reviewed it before of course but joel ordinance would amend the housing code of the city chapter fourteen chapter fourteen and chapter thirty nine and often oftentimes overlap a little bit in fit together so this is the housing code part of the of this the section should be tabled as well to that i mean all right we have that many questions for the city attorney seeing none time in place for the public hearing on the side of if you're to address that please session on favor of table until the may thirteenth meeting please say i write poems the same alright we're there for table until that date thank you david all right that takes us down to item twelve communications from the audience this is the opportunity for members of the public to address council on any item that does not otherwise appear on the agenda all we ask we require is that you step forward to the microphone so that everyone can hear what you have to say you state your name and residential address for the record and then you have up to five minutes to address council and we welcome comments and the microphone is not a representative welcome puts council chambers to thank you for the record daniela garcia address twenty two east twenty ninth street but please show up to office hours and not at my door i just wanted to provide just a quick update of what's happening at lansing and some of the work that my office has been doing for the last twelve weeks it has poised to move through the last legislature but then through the lame duck session it was stalled i have taken the opportunity to reintroduce the legislation which is h b forty two twenty six and so it has been referred to the commerce committee of which i am a member and have been working with my colleagues and the chairman of the commerce committee as well as the speaker of the house to move that legislation through as you all know but for a matter of public record and for folks at home this legislation would allow the city of holland a satellite zone to being part of the grand rapids smart zone extending grand rapids for fifteen years and then creating the satellite that would be shared in holland city and the holland township would be high tech development and u sing and utilizing the space at the michigan state university bio khana me institute so it's something that we have talked a great length with with lake shore advantage members city councils township boards as well as business owners in the community so we have introduced that legislation and i look forward to updating you as that progresses along and just the second item i will just highlight tool time is coming up and i have taken the opportunity as a new legislator to invite some of my colleagues from across the state of michigan to join us for two of time specifically the governor's lunch and then first scrubbing of the streets and so i am pleased to announce that in addition to the representatives and senators from this area that there will be eight members of the legislature coming to visit us including the speaker of the house speaker pro tem of the majority floor leader and the whip for the house of representatives so it'll be a great opportunity to highlight what we do here in holland in may and show the greatness of our community i'm happy to take any questions but i just wanted to update you on those two specific items thank you madam representative any questions from resemble today to me it's you certainly know how to hold the view but is there a simple web address or some simple way for the folks at home do you know they could be a google search or something like proponent so hypothetically help students make public comments nobody's biting that's right all right seeing that we then turn the page on the agenda to fortini two point one the item that was removed from the consent of gender dealing with the stem of the extension and for the labs i believe brian white or director of transportation services will introduce this one for us and then we'll make some  it is a street in the construction project will be from fairbanks to college avenue along eighth street the city and be working together on this project  due to start in june of this year and part of the project will include improvements those improvements consist of transmission  improvements that we've talked about in the past as well as distribution improvements actual heated snow melt under the sidewalk and in this case there is proposed to be some additional street improvements so before you tonight the item specifically is related to scheduling the public hearing of necessity for april fifteenth and in order to do that  we need to define specifically that assessment area and based on conversations up stairs that assessment area where we will have the  the aid of the visual here that assessment area is going to be somewhat reduced from what's on the map here and basically include both the road as well as the south side sidewalk between the mid block of columbia in college and they extend out to columbia avenue it will also include the sidewalk areas along columbia avenue between seventh  east will be removed for the purposes of notifications out to folks and so that basically delineates the assessment district for right questions for brian so do we as the motion is made we need to specifically take out some of these areas that were in before or would you recommend because the report that's in the packet has that the longer area there and recommendations were oblivious is the shorter area i think it should be real clear in the motion that he had out that your dappy in the area described by mr white just now for the area of notice ok and well i guess i would open the floor for a motion at this point less or any questions for staff seeing on constant three i will make a motion that we adopt the area so specified i just want to make sure that everybody understood that we had done correctly what we talked about upstairs and was just make sure that we were on the same page with them thank you yeah you got it all right so any other discussion on it saying don't please call the  see yes white men yes yes come parents to board yes yes peters yes birch yes mayor dykstra yes motion passes as amended all right thank you very much that takes us for the community neighborhood services received one hundred dollars from the how an historic neighborhood association parks and recreation received eight thousand dollars from one international bank for the two thousand and fifteen city of howland summer concert series series  the recreation division received one thousand dollars from dick's sporting goods parks and recreation and received four hundred dollars from the community foundation of the highlands elan area for the world war two memorial garden for your division the two thousand and fifteen saying the symposium received one hundred dollar donation from the flame tamer fire protection and the police division for the victim services unit received eighty seven dollars from the concert series at collin park in the summer just sounds great i love that whole spider it looks like summer afternoon painting and it's just wonderful to be able to go out there and enjoy that and we so appreciate huntington and willingness their willingness to support our ability to do that and now we have a second commercial group that is supporting the recreational activities with kids in the city in and that is so great to see as well as people supporting the ministry and helping kids get work in the summer and help them find a better way in life and it's just wonderful to see all the variety of involvement from businesses and individuals and helping to make holland in a better place today and for the future thank you all you groups right here what else accomplish here we're advising that the wednesday april two thousand and fifteen council meeting regular study session excuse me is cancelled due to spring break on that week and also on wednesday me six the regular council meeting to cancel that as well due to tulip time festival activities i think we need to make one of the tional change in its because as of right now the first week meeting in may is  cancelled which would mean that would only have one business meeting in may ordinarily we take the second and turn into a business meeting so the thirteenth are not to be designated as a business meeting as opposed to a study session correct that we're going to call that a special meeting and we were going to point that that's our intent as well as the twentieth ok so there's two per month right and since we've table the writing fives to that thirty meeting probably should make clear that we're going to have one that night all right so we did a motion  and of course those will be available all throughout the year especially at the kickoff on april eighteenth second item spring cleanup is underway and will continue to be underway with pick up on monday april sixth so people are encouraged to use time this week to rate their leaves i don't see any snow in the forecast knock on some wood so hopefully that will make a difference and people can put pressure on leaves out on the curbside last there will be this is late breaking the council members here engaged in a contest you are competing with one another with the support of the board of public works for your ward to wind certain prizes associated with a grand at the georgetown university energy prize so to that end there will be a drawing here next meeting of sorts to determine who the winner of was of the first quarter of the year round associated with getting a new furnace and that's thermostat so stay tuned that will be here on the april fifteenth meeting meaning also be an opportunity to see some work that had been taken in its communications folks have been involved in so shared with the prize as well as the sustainability institute and their work in relation to being newly kicked off and this is their first earth day approaching so i look forward to those nights the last thing on that matter is save the day saturday june six thirty a m that date is when there will be a door to door  blitz associated with saving energy and the georgetown prize so whether you are a boy scout looking to earn merit badges or a member of the school system looking to  earn volunteer hours or a member of the city council or bar put in the works looking to win certain benefits for your board you are welcome as well as city staff and any other port commission member from the energy committees to gather a date to be at a place to be determined on saturday june sixth there is a script prepared there is a public information that will be distributed in dance of people be aware and there be an opportunity to to move that ball down the field in relation to energy savings in the city of holland i will say that very simple changes can make large differences in the energy bills lasting else and that  is personal experience saved twenty percent with something that was not too difficult in my own home with the light installations which will be coming to you in may it's projected that that will save one percent and terms of overall community use of energy electricity anyway that one percent is compares favorably to the four percent which is a targeted reduction that we put in the plan in order to win the prize the prize is five million dollars of course and what that prize would likely be used to help fund further improvements via the on energy trust to be determined by the city council in some kind of way that would leverage those dollars going forward for a long time that completes my reports thank you any questions for the city manager all right i am sixteen communications mayor this evening the usual stuff in the sense that please check out city of holland dot com for information about the city of holland whether it's how to contact us whether it's information about forms to complete permit applications upcoming meeting schedules all sorts of things in fact i think this is our first meeting since we've had a tweaked website out of the back office stuff remains the same but with a fresher appearance and i've got it on the screens right now so i don't know if anybody in the control that real can can show it looks like a home but hopefully it's more visually appealing but hopefully also it's easier to navigate so if you want to find for example where we are who we are how to find ways to contact the city council pretty easy to do so and you'll find phone numbers email addresses all sorts of things and we certainly do want to hear from members of this community because it's how we do our jobs best we have upcoming spring break supposedly in fact probably about seven people left in holland right now  guess everybody was left in time as in the room is sort of if i understand it but spring break is upon us or soon will be for those who have not yet left the community but what that means for members of council is it's time we catch our breath for a week before we dive in with both feet that's really the correct phrase out of your usually diving head first you jump in with both feet but you dive head first we're going to both of them it's quite a acrobatic group here into our budget discussion under the city charter we need to have a budget approved our first meeting in the month of may order to do that we need to make sure we're on pace to two to know what we're going to vote on have plenty of public input and we begin our intensive budget review meetings as a council all of which is open to the public the week after city break spring break so our first budget session meeting will occur on appropriately april fifteenth tax day will have a city council meeting initially it will probably be a shorter agenda there after will adjourn into the budget meeting will also have one on thursday the sixteenth and then i believe if necessary will have one the following monday as well all here at city hall all open to the public and certainly the public is invited to to attend and participate in those the eighteenth is that as brian mentioned the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of the the windmills in the city of holland additionally for the third or fourth year now our youth advisory council is running the holland the run of the mill five k run this is their creation they thought of it they're organizing it they're putting it together and all the proceeds go toward windmill island it is a very good thing and will be part of a very fine morning so look for that find ways to sign up in fact i think if you go to the home page and city of holland dot com it's one of the first things you'll see at the moment then finally well tell you what we'll do a couple of appointments first open it up for for comments motions resolutions for members of council then we have something to end with before we hit the bricks tonight so with that i do have one bit of appointment for you and that is two i would ask you to appoint judges to be honest to the police community relations commission for an uncompleted term which will expire december thirty one twenty fifteen and i would hope that you might see fit to act upon it seeing none it is april first today and the strangest thing happened in town and for that matter we go i came around the corner and