good evening it's december seventh this is this is a big day in history the seventy fifth anniversary of the bombing of pearl harbor but thanks to the resolve and the work of those who have given so much for our country since then and at that time we can still a sample in a free country today so it's important for us on a day like this to realize that we don't come here of our own because of what we've accomplished it's because of those who have given so much before this and i believe there are like six survivors of that horrific attack back on december seventh which was a sunday and i believe that was the very first vespers service how that whole college it in the chapel and it did proceed as and did with of course and that first december seventh so we are are grateful for those who came before us and for all the veterans that have made it possible for us to enjoy freedom in a democracy today tonight's meeting will start with what we usually do a roll call and i could you please do that bird peters birch then whiteman your hoekstra you border here we have a former mayor thank you and then we will begin with two things we have done for decades an opening prayer will be led by our city attorney ron vanderveen and after that we'll have the pledge of allegiance we would love it if you would stand with us if you're able from our country to protect our freedoms and we give thanks to you for that we give thanks to you for the freedom and community that we have and favorite season has been created by so many people we are mindful of the winter weather warnings that are out there that  e a delight to some people like the weather weather way and the danger to everybody who travels we pray for safety in the traveling the next few days and we pray for your wisdom and guidance and the decisions to be made right your name we pray  thank you rana now we will go on to the consent to gender which means an appearance will read over all the items on today the gender that we will vote on with one vote at the end and that would cover all of those items if however you came here because you wanted to speak to one of those items then at the end of her reading we will open it up for you to come forward to the podium tell us your name address and which item you would like taken off the consent d and then we will handle that item in its sequence as is listed on their agenda from the back so in a could you please go through that consent agenda item for each excuse the absence of council members bird in commissions item twelve eighty one to approve a purchase order agreement was kennedy industries in the amount of seventy nine thousand one hundred forty five dollars for three direct it submersible pumps b control panel in the amount of sixty nine thousand five hundred ten to acknowledge work completed to date in the amount of approximately fifty eight thousand one hundred thirty nine dollars a permit change order with franklin hollyweird a company in the amount of two hundred forty one thousand eight hundred sixty five dollars with a ten percent contingency of twenty four thousand one hundred eighty seven for electrical mechanical painting and site work approve a transfer from contingency in the amount of one hundred  twenty thousand for a revised capital budget of five hundred twenty thousand approve a purchase order with their watering solutions godwin pumps in the amount of throaty five thousand twenty three doubt twenty thirty five thousand and twenty three and forty eight cents for a dry prime diesel by pump bypass pump and a transfer from contingency in lieu of in fiscal year eighteen budgeted capital expenditure for from the i one industrial district to the c three central business district with final hearing scheduled for december twenty one two thousand and sixteen council meeting item twelve thirty one to refer claims filed against the city to the city's insurance carrier and city attorney for consideration item twelve the two point one two approve the submission of a substantial amendment to the two thousand and sixteen two thousand and seventeen city b g annual action plan and adopt the citizen participation plan july through september of two thousand and sixteen as presented item twelve four point two to adopt a resolution approving the two thousand and seventeen schedule of charges as presented item twelve four point three two accept the october two thousand and sixteen monthly financial report as presenting item twelve point one two accept a grant in the amount of seventeen thousand three hundred ninety from the office of highway safety planning to organize shifts and patrol designated areas per drunk drugged driving distracted drivers seat belt noncompliance and other motor vehicle code violations item twelve keys six point two two a proven agreement with jody signs to coordinate the michigan municipal  conference host responsibilities at a cost of twenty five dollars per hour up to three hundred twenty hours at a total cost of eight thousand dollars for the annual conference to be held in holland september thirteenth through september fifteenth two thousand seventeen and approved a budget adjustment item twelve east six point three to approve the pell g c bid in the amount of fifteen thousand five hundred twenty five dollars for upgrades to city council chambers by adding stack stone to the back wall paint and removal of pillars at the council chambers and trains item twelve e six point four to approve the temporary city building closure on thursday december fifteenth from in forty five p a m to one p fifty one p m for the in floyd holiday party thank you anna so perhaps one of the items she read is one that you wanted to address and that's why you came tonight so if that's the case please come to the podium give us your name and address and which item you would like taken off their consent agenda saying no one in the audience council members is anyone want to take any items off consent peters yes birch yes white men yes yes one parent yes to your door yes motion passes thank you we are moving down to public comment perhaps you came here to address something that is not on the agenda and you would like some time to do that if that's the case please come to the podium and give us your name and address you have five minutes to address the council there's a lighting system the green light is go the yellow light means one more minute and the red light means evening good evening my name is nicole kirsty's my previous address was ninety nine west nineteenth street holland for nine four two three the reason i'm here is because it is my understanding that a while ago the city council passed an amendment in order to help landlords if their tenants were uncooperative and were not even acting in time my husband and i had a couple medical emergencies this past year we were twelve hours away from receiving assistance from both of our church and d h h s to help us with our back rent and instead it judge jonas ordered a twenty four hour even notice three weeks ago we had twenty hours by the time we received the notice and got home from work we vacated the premises and because of that even notice we are no longer able to write and because it's on our credit there error reports at holland district court and also at a county so we are unable to purchase a home and i totally and completely understand that this committee and council is dedicated to having landlord and tenant rights heard and i also understand what happens when people are irresponsible and i am sure that everything was in the best interest and the best intention but somehow we were caught in the cross hairs we are currently homeless and staying in allegan this is not just impacted my children and my family of we have six children we have five who live with us one who's twenty one and out of the house but our neighbors were impacted negatively we're no longer allowed back into the community because we cannot afford rent our rental income in that house was seventy percent of our income and that was the lowest price we could find i came today because i saw a notice on the city council holland city website about the hyde and i would very much appreciate being a part of that committee to ensure that this does not happen to anybody else we want to be the very last holland city residents that get stuck in between the gaps and have this happen yeah so sorry a call that's a very difficult thing you went through thank you and again i appreciate the effort and i know and completely respect and i love holland my grandparents courted here my grandpa in world war two because of pearl harbor he's from this area this was our home it's we want to do what we can to contribute again to make sure that going forward things are done in a more effective way that considers the voice of the poor worker even as we look down the street at the capone house that six houses from the settlers house and i don't want us to lose that and our heritage going forward that's not what holland was built on holland was built on the poor in the wealthy residing in the same neighborhood and i'd like to do whatever i can contribute to make sure that that happens again thank you for hearing me  director of parks and recreation thank you mandy good evening madam mayor and city council tonight just tonight to come to you for a final reading on an ordinance amendment regarding dogs in parks particularly dogs on leash and parks it's section twenty two three and as you recall during previous meetings we've discussed this this matter with with animals and pets on leash in parks currently they are not allowed in parks except for five locations and we'd like to see that expanded staff would like to see that expanded to all parks excluding three parks a matter of a sports complex maplewood youth complex and the digraph nature center you may also recall we did engage in public safety while discussing this topic and they had no negative comments regarding that and could not find any specific issues with dog problems in parks so we're recommending this this or demand ordinance amendment be adopted tonight i'd be happy answering questions thank you andy anyone have a question that do have a little rule sign with it if we are to adopt the scenario we will include that it at all parks as well as some new language on a rule signs that gives pet owners some pointers and tips as to how to best take care of your asked sorry we have asked departments to to look at this over and see if they had any oppositions or anything with us and everybody was fine there was no objections to this thank you an produce more steps do not do the statements what we need to do is just about have council adopt a resolution that is provided to us and then but he would have to do what i would do you send this to the liquor control commission and then he can begin his spirits product line look like are you starting with clear spirits or are you waiting until you have a spirit on line before you sell we're actually looking to start with like i don't care spirits and all and eventually potentially going into some long longer term products but the biggest thing is just to offer another product to our customers they command which will reach about wider variety of people as well as be able to take another thing onto our product line i guess in general just gifts and i could you please tell us what gifts we're getting around christmas here in the city manager's office is pleased to report the following gifts parks and recreation from the friends of the unlucky from program received a donation from ryan cat the amount of one hundred twenty five dollars for trees at seven rotty farm again parks and recreation for the civic center place improvement project received nine thousand nine hundred thirty one dollars and eleven cents from connections program for the fifth year now receive three donations one from and get the church in the amount of three hundred hours jason aaron's in and cotton in the amount of sixty dollars in charles out and  in the amount of five hundred dollars it is around recommended that these donations be accepted with appreciation and an expression of gratitude be forwarded to said donors when their full mo improvement project that's wonderful thank you community wow what a generous community and we're going on to communications from the city manager mr cotton thank  there and thank you for attending for public comment i'd like to connect with you the end of the meeting so we can give you some more options the call two items one i bought want to thank everyone associated with the new parade float and i think that's part of the subject of someone else's comments later tonight so i won't steal their thunder but i do want to mention that i totally appreciate  has been involved in doing something that's unprecedented to give you an update on the recount yes this is my first recount that i have attended we did training on tuesday morning and went right into the recount in the afternoon i heard since heard that dam they had first planned that this recount would probably go through sunday but heard earlier this evening or earlier this afternoon that the county out of the county will be completed by tomorrow by noon so it when a little bit quicker and it was quite interesting many steps to follow and make sure everything was cr that's all i have not an easy day to be in the world of city clerking unprecedented challenges thank you and we appreciate all your work and flexibility on top of having run an amazing election not that long ago thank you very much so and another thing we're enjoying in the city of holland especially this week is the advent of our new snow melt system which we are very grateful for even though the plant is not done our brand new plant is not done and we're not using the units at the deion plant we have installed boilers and they will be used for other things at the plant at the new natural gas plant but they're also of capacity to be able to heat the water to do our snow melt system for which we're very thankful and it was kind of close because it was guaranteed as the fifth of december which was  monday and we had some snow on sunday so it started a little early on sunday and it did melt things pretty well on monday we were ok they gradually he did the water from forty degrees to one hundred five and they have kept it circulating through the system in preparation for all that is coming according to the weather people and so we should be ready to do it and you might thursday friday saturday might want to get a table right next to each street and at a restaurant and watch that snow melt how's that for excitement that it is we have the biggest system in north america and we are multiplying it by five with this new plant and we have doubled what we're using  having finished now central avenue all the way to state street for the comments of evergreen so this is a great year to appreciate the snow melt system and we so are grateful for the b p w and all the huge work that they have done to make that possible also the city float the parade of lights wow what a gorgeous night we couldn't have had anything better it was a horrible storm the day before and the day after but the clouds parted on tuesday night and it was glorious there was so many people out i was a wonderful night in the entries to those parade was get better every year there was one about frozen and people said that set the whole deal at a new and these guys put in way more time than they already had a bunch of responsibilities with getting all the leaves and everything with their regular duties but they were willing to help with this flow and we're really appreciate that great job that they did this weekend promises to be pretty nice as well four things you can do there's friday night is the up on the rooftops from six to nine thirty going to the upper levels of what goes on  downtown which people always enjoy and then saturday there's the shopping jam in the morning i think that goes from eight to ten thirty percent off eight to nine and twenty five percent off from nine to ten there's also the home core tours those three brand new homes that were just finished near sixteenth and central will be open for two worries and that's very interesting to see how that's being developed and as well as the story and what's going on and that corner where we're going to put the they are going to build six many homes so that's a great thing to check out and then of course the kurtz mark at the very last day for kurtz market is at the civic center from nine to and saturday the highland corral and sympathy sympathy symphony have two concerts and saturday three thirty and seven thirty and you might want to check those out or if you want to get creative with art you can be at the holiday arts council they are having a party with father christmas from ten to two so check out highland out org that's the commune c b site or you can go to downtown  highland those are all places to find what's going on and there's so many things to enjoy and ways to build moments with family and children and really enjoy the important things of the season so we're really a little video because the storm is coming and we haven't really driven too much and snow this year we thought it might be good to kind of see what's going on in other places like maybe montreal and they are having a little bit of issue recently where having trouble stopping so they thought maybe the next truck now all that didn't work and then there here comes a bus and that was having a little trouble too but maybe the police could help us so we're just kind of watching all the areas and several that didn't go too great but then of course you can always call your snowplow and they could maybe deal with what's going on but that doesn't work too well there so but yet they need a wing pile so that can look kind of funny but it's no fun and so even though we think we've all driven in sometimes conditions are different than you when you think they're going to be so please drive slowly and carefully and we will try to do our part to get the salt out and the chemicals to make the roads as safe as possible so  want to have a safe winter season here we also had one resignation linda false stead resigned from the planning commission linda has served on their planning commission since twenty thirteen she is also a former member of city council but she resigned and the reason for that is she was elected to serve on the hauen public school board and so we're very grateful for her service in all those different spheres and glad that she is having an opportunity to serve in a place where she really has her heart in right now so we have to raise except that with regret we have a motion to his board scott lives in the city hall and he's the e m s emergency service director for elohim county and has been for twelve years he's got quite an extensive background in budgets and  sign that carries thank you mike and the other motions resolutions from council members seeing them then we need a motion to go into a closed session to review a legal opinion move by white men support supported by hook structure we have a rol be going upstairs for a closed session thank you have a wonderful evening