good evening we're happy to have you here this evening as beautiful as it is outside you chose to come in here and do business and for that we're grateful and you're wanting to be a part of your community and its future and we're glad for that very happy to  have some high school students here tonight as well to report on what they've been doing this past year on behalf of the city so i'm glad that you're here also so we're going to start out with a roll call please santa  done for decades we start with an opening prayer that i'll lead tonight and then we'll do the pledge of allegiance we would ask that you would stand and join us if you'd please join me in prayer our heavenly father we thank you for this time of year we thank you and we see all things bright and beautiful all creatures great and small we know all of them are gifts from your hand that every good and perfect gift comes from you and we do have so many good and perfect gifts in this area we thank you for the natural resources you've given us we thank you for the history of hard working intelligent innovative dedicated people that came before us we thank you for the amazing situation that you have given us in business that you have blessed us in being the place to start small business in the entire country we know all these things are blessings from you we pray that you will help us in enjoying these things to share with those who it that we will love our brother as we love ourselves and that you will help us to be a city on a hill that we will be a place that others are drawn to because of our good will because we care for each other and that we are here to solve problems together thank you lord for the attitude that says there's a problem i think they should step forward to help solve it and that is a sense that we have in this area we are very very grateful for it help us to treasure that and to can you continue to work together to be willing to help with a better future not just for here but for the world we think pray that floor that in this evening we will make decisions that honor you that will make this place good for those who live here and for those who are coming in your name we pray thank you we're now going to have what they call the consent to genda and that is a list of items that are on your agenda and i will read all of those that are on consent and at the end of that council will consider passing all of those with one motion but perhaps you came to talk to one of those items that she will read in this list if that's the case at the end of her reading i will open it up and you can come to the podium give us your name and address and tell us which item you would like taken off the consent agenda and then we will handle that item when it comes in its sequence as it's printed so just listen to what anna reads and if there's something you'd like taken off we'll open it up to that possibility after she's done please him item four eight to excuse the absence of council members byrd in white men for b to approve the minutes of the may seventeen regular meeting and may twenty fourth two thousand and seventeen joint study session with  of public works a one to approve a grant of utility easement for five or cabinet and underground fiber optic cable located on parcel two in the city of hudson hudsonville sorry for property owners of that area in the city of hudson downtown development authority pending approval as to form by the city attorney twelve eight two to approve a fiscal year two thousand and eighteen service contract with headache or weekly company for the replacement of  electric poles and total amount to two hundred six thousand three hundred sixty two dollars and forty eight cents pending approval us to form by the city attorney twelve three to approve a dark fiber lease agreement with their metron for a five year term pending approval asked a form by the city attorney twelve a forward to approve a three year contract with waste management to holland dispose of the residue reserve residuals from the water wastewater treatment plant in the estimated amount of one million nine hundred twenty five thousand five hundred sixty four based on a per unit price as noted in our report pending city attorney approval as to form twelve a five to approve a modified interconnection agreement with michigan electric transmission company and to authorize a city attorney to execute an extension of the existing agreement through august thirty one two thousand and seven thousand and twelve a six to approve a grant of easement on the north most three acres of the quincy st substation property to g m s america for storm water retention in the amount of thirty thousand dollars twelve a seven and item four d to accept and place first reading an ordinance amendment to the code of the city of holland chapter seven under new article three support broadband services section seven dash sixty three through seven dash seventy two find use and purpose with final adoption scheduled for july nineteenth two thousand and seventeen twelve c you want to approve an amended use met with judy for the eighth street project parking lot exchange and authorize the mayor and deputy city clerk to execute said document on behalf of the city subject to approval asked to perform by the city attorney item twelve do you want to refer claims filed against the city to the city's insurance carrier and city attorney for consideration i had in twelve the two to approve annual business license submitted for renewal item twelve one point one two approve the two thousand and seventeen street and storm sewer improvement project and with the national construction company in the amount of four hundred seventy seven thousand eight hundred fifty six dollars and ninety nine cents and to adopt a project budget with funds to be allocated from the street improvement subject to approval asked a form by the city attorney and twelve each to play one to approve the bi submitted by posting the signs and graphics to site for site manufacture and install twenty six downtown parking identification signs including the removal and disposal of the existing existing signs in the amount of forty over under a crossing through the properties of one eighty two through one eighty four and one eighty six through one e t a river a avenue for the maintenance of the snow melt system twelve each two point three to approve the requests submitted by license agreement to use portions of the sutler which road an eighth street right away is for vehicle sales and display area along with other improvements subject to approval by the city attorney twelve three point one to accept as information the process of obtaining the historic designation for does one when my island located at windmill island gardens twelve four point one to adopt a resolution to place the link when ordinance violations invoices on the summer two thousand and seventeen property tax bills item twelve four point two two accept the airport two thousand and seventeen monthly financial reports as presented twelve easy four point three two approved a contract with tyler technologies for the new world systems for for cloud based software and hosting services at a yearly cost of forty two thousand and thirty one dollars budgeted in the fiscal year technology services budget is subject to city attorney approval twelve four point four to approve the purchase of incur b t o cameras storage server and all cabling and installation with watchguard in the amount of one hundred eighty eight thousand six hundred for the public safety division item twelve eve five point one to approve the purchase of a replacement canine training for the dog and handler from northern michigan canine in the amount of eleven thousand five hundred dollars appropriated from the specific specified donations fund and authorize a transfer of ownership of pay nine nicky to her handler officer rhyming east six point two zero to approve the appointment of shauna hood p s de boer to fulfill the remainder of mr  harris term and for the term to expire december of two thousand and nineteen i had him twelve east six to accept this information the civic center improvement project status report on civic center place policy discussions for upcoming study sessions as approved district formed by the city attorney i'm sorry you six point six two approve the fiscal sponsorship agreement with the community foundation of the hollands england area for financial support of the civic center place improvement project and authorized the mayor and deputy clerk to execute the document on behalf of the city subject to approval by the city attorney thank you anna now perhaps one of those items was one that you came to talk about tonight and if that's the case please make your way to the podium and give us your name and address and which item you would like taken off the consent agenda broadband experience yes anyone else that would include four b one is well ok council we have a group in the city we have well over fifty students are involved in the city and high at the high school level of all different ages through that and different the committees throughout the city and there's a highland youth advisory council which is like the city council version and high school level so we really appreciate all their hard work meeting every month and helping to advise city council on things or handing it over to you for your presentation this evening and friday you look ready to go there share jack casper in for and those are the members of our court house for the year and so i will pass on the microphone to newbie oh who will talk about our youth work in the community and for the first time we helped conduct interviews for applicants for the holland youth advisory council for the next academic school year and next we have now actually have and i will be talking about recreation smike and i will be attending central michigan university next year in the fall and i'm on the recreation commenee this year we sponsored a lip sync battle which was put on by the uncut voices  committee this is academically are we put on to mental health awareness events a five k run walk and educational event was circled around mental health awareness and health in general and our final donations were above fifteen hundred and will be donated to us michigan mental health foundation and be nice and next we have alex my name is alex key and i'm going to be a senior at west side one next year and i am part of social services this year we are working on expanding our pending as copies program and we're also working on developing a educational piece for the single stream in teen court this year our students began accepting except except a truancy case for the first time for low level up under us and they had fifty four jurors who served on top twelve trials this year and next i'll be talking about youth on boards sell for the max transportation committee they create a salary plan with the drivers union they had a five year brainstorming session and they would be expanding service to part township and in downtown development authority they focused on the civic center redevelopment and the review of location of downtown offices and they will be implementing the parking study results in recommendations and next we have kim presenting parks and r relations created a booklet what to do if contacted by police in both spanish and english in their junior police academy was filled in their public safety puller patrol or their ice cream truck was launched for their highlights and then in the neighborhood improvement committee there how it's referable housing dialogue and upcoming tenant landlord training and the next we have met i will be attending michigan tech this fall i was with the airport authority and we were able to get the new terminal building for this fall twenty sixteen finished up and we've been gearing up for the airport milcher a new one on the sustainability committee and they were able to rule out the sustainability framework to assess projects greater than one hundred thousand sustainability framework presented the planning commission for inclusion in their planning process and their dark our collaboration with hope sustainability institute and neighborhood connectors to get one hour of power usage and in the human relations commission they have their first annual m l k essay contest community discussion about immigration policy and what they do know they had their big read collaboration larch the safe community conversations and i'm going development of building cultural bridges counter and next we have  i just graduate from black river and i plan on pursuing a gap year and i will do volunteer work on organic farms in indonesia on the other ones and i've done the international relations commission and the first part of it was we went over a film series that's going to happen this summer and the main highlight of that will be this american life highlighting the life of refugees and immigrants and invite speakers and the hound area who have personally have firsthand experience on that topic and then the other part was building our relations are credited on our sister city in mexico and working on tourist package so and their say they'll have information on holland and then here w have pamphlets on to tourists for their city and then a couple years ago or last year is a big success a multicultural festival and we're looking to reboot and the youth is looking at a food t o highlight the great selection of food in the area and next year for you to finish it off and so i will be attending the university of michigan to pursue psychology and  lastly we would just like to think council i'm here to bore rank and all the members on council for giving us the opportunity to be involved with our community we're very grateful for that and we wish to see the best in the coming years from our other council members and and thank you very much for listening thank you so much i really appreciate the year in review there and all of your presence on those adult committees as well as the student led committees a lot of work you accomplished in one year and we a faithful shepherd and there are givens also helped with the work behind the scenes with that with all of that all the things that you did and such an honor and privilege to meet you and work with you a year it's hard to put into words the value of the future of the community and you represented so well so thank you so much for coming in tonight and for all the time that you have given to make the city of holland better and we hope you're in that strangers that maybe you go away to get educated but you can wander back and be a part of the community there are so many opportunities and so many businesses that are looking for talent like you so thanks for coming in tonight all those in favor say aye those same sign that carries we will move then to the description of the civic center improvement project can you take that thank you this is the next step reports on several phases of that design the final design is still underway especially pertaining to outside the building but what we have tonight is to it here to the schedule is an opportunity to receive the first  project that award and dustin helms is here from go construction go construction was duly hired as the construction manager for the project doesn't hamza's project superintendent i believe along with the rest of the construction team on may thirty first we took bids for bid package one for the holland civic center additions and renovations that big package consisted of the following us building demolition selective interior demolition excavation in site utilities was one package building concrete which consisted of the building footing foundations and slab on grade and slab on deck so building exterior walls and inward as well as the structural steel portion which is all the structural steel so she added with the additions and renovations it does not include miscellaneous metals i e stair rails and hand rails etc it also included the basement the watering system that we were installing in the existing basement around the perimeter and through the middle of the current slab as well as floor protection for the existing gym floor and a temporary construction of whether tight wall along the north side of the existing building starting at the second floor and going up to the roof deck to protect the existing structure from weather when dick said wrote once the existing north side of the building is removed to make way for the addition told came in very good we came in slightly under our original projected budget for the current packages that were solicited so today i'm here to ask for or give my recommendation and ask for approval for the following contractors associated with these work categories that would be extreme demolition for the site eight her scuse me selective demolition as well as building demolition packages so one contractor two packages dan whole excavating for all the earth work in site utility package as it stands today pro line concrete for the current concrete package as i described previously structural standards for all of the structural steel work jr about camp and associates for the temporary floor protection as well as the temporary weather wall along the north side of the facility and then heirs basement systems for the watering and water proofing system at the existing basement so that will conclude the big package one subcontractor list with big package two coming out in the near future which will be the remainder of the subcontractors associated with all site and building trades great thank you destine any comments or questions from justin slightly i think this is a good start fact that we're able to come on the thirty thousand dollars and up and sneeze at him a million five but it's a good thing especially no thank you mike consistency your middle name and the other comments and i guess we go for a roll call on this monumental occasion thank you anna peters yes so now we're moving to public comment this is the time that anyone in the audience can address council about whatever you'd like to talk about it should be something that's going to appear later on the agenda this evening but if it's anything else you'd like to talk  welcome to come to the podium give us your name and address and your will which are free to talk for five minutes green light means go ahead yellow light means there's one minute left red light means it's over you're welcome to come to the podium if you'd like oh i'm sorry you know just as a point of clarification for some of our friends in the audience the next night i'm ten you know you can speak when that comes on the agenda in the right spot is that accurate after that is right thanks thank you thanks for the clarification case anyone wondered so was there any public comment about other things scene and leave a close public comment and we'll move  dave so i'll just introduce this is a project that spent a year in the making and it relates to public hearings there above and beyond as associated with the state nevertheless it will   very well one thing i've done is kayak through the narrows but that that doesn't create a problem i think i'm so mad is there anything you'd like their community and public to know in addition to what i just said sure actually i missed a little bit of what you said there so i apologize if i repeat what you said just as if you remember the process that's gotten us to this point i think this actually started with park township looking at matching up our ordinances to the ordinance on the other side of lake through that discussion folks as i'm sure there is a few in the audience today came and requested that you petition the d n r to come in and look at expanding the no wake zone in the narrows back at our last fall but summer early fall did come in they held a public hearing a really good turnout for that with almost universal support for expanding that no wake zone park township also held their own public hearing they had again a very similar turn out to expand the no wake zone water levels are up people are concerned about safety the kids docs and everything else we finally got that back very early this spring from the d n r they've said  and i'm going to actually pull up if you give me just second here they've gotten back to us and said that yes we think that we agree that the area being requested probably need some adjustment as far as in the wake zone if you look on the map here the tool black lines are approximately the no wake zone is as it exists today on the books that's a myrtle to grove avenue two hundred feet from shore the proposed ordinance change is from approximately superior point light number seven which is a concrete structure in lake mack with due south extending short shore township will have the exact same ordnance language that we have extending west from that line to excuse me old orchard road as extended to the north so a fairly substantial i would call a very substantial increase in the slow no wake zone on lake bachata at the ordinance as it reads that what they send in is  for vessels twenty six feet and over the entire zone is no slow no wake for vessels twenty six feet and under it is twenty it is slow in no way from two hundred feet from shore  in when the d n r this process the d n r controls the regulations on all the surface water in the state of michigan so this is their call a we can either accept this we can approve it and send it back and then it will become through a process and ron can speak the process probably little better than i can but it involves posting and sending back to them but then that would become the local water craft ordinance i think this is probably warranted in this area personally that's the obviously  the will of the city council now we have had significant number of meetings and telephone calls with the folks from i've had a lot of calls of the folks from the d n r out of county sheriff park township and how in township  regarding this i think the the feeling on both sides of the lake is this is similar and we are planning on once this ordinance goes through if it goes through we will begin the process of purchasing new buoys to place in this area that we placed right along those lines we would be placing them at least one buoy at the two hundred foot portion and then one buoy where it makes sense where it's visible to boating traffic in here the one caveat is we have to be a little bit careful were prevented from that by the d n r and the coast guard from placing those buoys within the shipping channel that's caused some issue in the past in the in the existing slow no wake zone in that shipping channel actually comes right up tight to the to the shoreline and we can only put the buoy out so far in addition to placing buoys in this area so that people know we would be a part township has actually volunteered to get new signs printed for the entire lake showing the slow no wake zone those signs we would post at the the d n r launch on the north side we were part point at done park and then obviously the city would put at collin park the out of county sheriff has volunteered to print a number of new brochures they hand out in the boats we would then they would ask that we would put a little pamphlet flip top waterproof thing that people that use the self service launch it can park can go they can see the sign hey that is a slow in their wake zones and then also take a pamphlet throw in the glove box the boat and they've got it with them out of a county is very very good about handing those out they're going to be a lot of regulation changes throughout our county as far as loan awake zones so we want to make sure that the word gets out well obvious also use our communications machine if this change is approved sentinel hopefully we'll run an article will put it out on facebook social media city web site although the normal stuff that we usually do and the coast guard has been involved in many of the meetings they've they've all said that they're they're going to be really looking at upping the enforcement in these areas so we would encourage them and we will continue to talk with them and we can encourage just came to light today but one of the buoys that was just recently placed out there is damaged i would just encourage the people that live out there that have eyes on that every day to please call city managers office let us know if something's damaged if it's if we don't know it's broken we probably can't fix it so call me call ryan we know the people to get that address so thank you ma'am appreciate out good things started last year i mean it takes a long time to go through government isn't it and it's even worse this year i mean we have a greater need so i'm glad you like due diligence throughout the year ron did you want to speak to how this works but what will happen is after you adapt the ordinance it does it set into the r they issue permits for the city to get the bullies and put them out in the lake and then as far as writing tickets the sheriff department you are right take us under the ordinance in twenty one days ok starting in twenty one days ok great so that would complete our staff report and now we'll work to public comment so if you would like to speak to this situation you're welcome to come up to the podium again give us your name and address and you're free to speak for the five minutes green is go and yellow is one minute red is the end of your five five twenty eight elm drive mayor de boer city council we thank you for your support we asked that you approve this and push it forward it's been a long time in the making and i think from a safety standpoint as well for property damage it means a lot to the community so i thank you thank you  else my name is mark unfasten five forty six myrtle i really like the direction of the policies as it's intended the practical matter is the enforcement and so far th i think the placement of the buoys and the enforcement by the authorized party is really going to be the key in all this because the the situation is you know certainly worse today than it was a year ago at this point in time so again encourage encourage that practical matter as far as the enforcement of the policy a lot of the direction will have to wait and see what happens thanks yes thank  at eleven thirty one summer shore and first of all thank you for what you do for our city and this is a small thing on your plate i know but it's a big thing to us it come up at least three feet plus in the last couple years and it's getting as that rises you know that danger and fire dock and some of those public fishing  places i mean for a small child that is not life jacket it could be trouble you know we just had a drowning my three year old just recently in the paper so keep that in mind i pre the other comments close the public hearing you know as in regards to enforcement if these residents notice that they need some enforcement they don't call the holland place department do they do where do they call i believe they'd be calling nine one one to report violations ok i don't believe the how long he's department has a facilities to be able to enforce it on the lake but the sheriff's department does ok and that's  noted from your vantage point that would be very helpful especially as it begins a lot of people won't know as many pamphlets as you print that everybody takes one or reads it right so but first of all we'd have  to pass this so close the public hearing and now we're going to a motion from council to adopt this resolution do we have such a motion so much support moved by just who is supported by a lynn discussion there's no way i guess thank you so much that you did a yeoman's work on this lining up all different governmental agencies in a year is a long time to us who watch it washing by but in the world of government it's amazing to get it done at the beginning of the next summer so we are very grateful for your hard work on that so and we need a roll call and a please birch yes lynne yes keep us informed thank you our moving on to the other item that we took off the consent which is the broadband services expansion and i believe we have mr koster  this presentation and they've done really the work in putting all this together so we're very excited to be in front of you tonight with the next step we call it expanded pilot area in our downtown our board took action last month to adopt a business plan in that area and also they're recommending that you start an ordinance process tonight with the first reading a business plan would be on file for over thirty days or up to thirty days so that anybody that wants to understand what we're looking at doing in the downtown will have time to do so and then they would be able to comment at the public hearing we're asking that a public hearing also be set for july nineteen and at that time then the ordinance would be adopted along with the business plan and so that we can move forward in the downtown area with this expanded pilot it is exciting just a little bit of background i did pull up the presentation so i can walk through that here briefly but i don't know if the viewers at home know but the b p w has been in the fiber optic business for many years actually back to one thousand nine hundred two we've been in fiber optic to support our own businesses primarily and then we grew that system throughout the years and we offer system services to many customers we have over two hundred miles of fiberoptic deployed throughout our community and we have two hundred fifty customers at this point larc mostly their large businesses and what we are doing in most cases here is we're providing the actual transport of high speed bandwidth high speed data connectivity between these businesses and an internet service provider so today we do not provide the internet service or the content across the fiber we provide the infrastructure and we operate the network to make sure that it's efficient and reliable and so we have a process that has worked well for our large businesses and it's been financially healthy business as well as you can see on the screen we have a positive net income which allows us to reinvest in the infrastructure of that utility and so it's been successful model but it hasn't been necessarily a pricing model that works for residential or small business and so last year we started a process of looking at a another type of service called a shared gigabit so gigabit what does that mean that's really fast i think brian can help you out with what that means but instead of normally what you might hear of speeds up to sixty megabits per second might be some advertising this is a thousand megabits per second and this kind of performance has been tested in a pilot program of the downtown three buildings the locals building the review building and at montrose in a wife i set up and the experience for that those users have experience has been outstanding they've put it to the test and i think they've been pretty happy with the the outcome of that and so you know we're excited about taking it now and expanding that area between seventh and ninth and between gerritsen and pine avenue on both sides really the road associated with those boundary points but there's about one hundred fifty eight i believe are sold buildings unique buildings in that area and potentially four hundred fifty or so customers you know unique customers that we have started a conversation through the down town development authority and through other channels some of our participants in the first phase of our pilot are also helping to champion this they're helping to tell the story in the downtown area so we're excited about expanding into this this area we've looked at the economics associated with that under what we believe to be a realistic projection of take rate in that area and also realistic projection of the split between the different types of services that customers could see you can see  that we do have positive net income you know through all the years there's a fairly large capital investment up front as it shows on this and so if you want to see the cumulative effect you can see that somewhere between year six and seven we're starting to become cash flow positive on this utility and it's supporting and enhanced seeing the performance of the overall broadband utility you know along the way we did test even what we consider to be a very conservative estimate for take rate and even under that by year ten or eleven we're breaking even and moving forward the good news is if you look at that curve there most of the investment is in the fiber that goes in the ground that has a very very long life it's only that like tronics that have to be changed out on every say seven five to seven years or so in this case around year six we're making that switch over to some new electronics you see a blip in the red line but that's a fairly small cost relative to the cost of the fiber going in so we're feeling very confident that over time in this area we'll have good performance financially again to help us move forward on this even though p w has been in the business of transport service for some time we're actually expanding some of our services again identifying this area that we're working in but also identifying that in addition to transport services we're also going to be offering internet service directly so in the past we've had five or six different internet service providers that we partner with we certainly like that model we think it works really well and for the long term we want to have an open network but we also want to provide an option if customers are unable to find an internet service provider that wants to work with them at a residential or small business level we also want to be able to provide that so that we can move this process forward and so we have  an ordinance that we had help from the city attorney's office developing and i'm be happy to have ron you know walk through anything in the ordinance specifically you'd want to hear but centrally it's allowing us to move forward in that area to find the business plan and also the internet service that goes along with that in establishing that you'd be approving the rates and fees associated with that just a little highlight again on the capital cost we do have  construction has been bit out so we have those bids in hand we know what those costs are going to be because it's per unit cost and so based upon our estimates of the deployment in the downtown and estimate of the number of take takers for that service this is an estimate of the actual capital costs six hundred forty one thousand dollars to recover the cost so that again the fee structure that we're using we believe to be very competitive for business small business in for residential when you consider other entities that are providing gigabit speeds now this is very high bandwidth speeds these are very good rates and  so with that we have an eighty five dollars point for internet service and what we would call our standard internet service enhanced is two hundred twenty dollars an enhanced gives usually businesses that want to have certain things like static ip addresses and other enhanced prioritization of response as well as a service level agreements that would discount their costs if our performance got under a certain level in a month you know that's what really drives some of that we still are going to provide the transit service which you also see there on that sheet so again we're trying to promote an open network that others can provide different services across and so this is what we've based the business plan on will be working again with our champions downtown and the work that pete and becky have started interfacing with the downtown development authority and speaking opportunities there we had you know some things that we've done recently with our internet in the downtown such as the centennial park over to a time where we had the public wi fi going there and certainly want to build off from some of the experiences that people had in that area and as always we have to say that will be using social media as matt also mentioned is a normal channel for us these days to get the word out just a little bit information on the timeline again tonight is june seventh you see that your role tonight should you choose to do so would be to set the public hearing  june twelfth our board meeting comes up we've got some action that's coming up on the rate booker sheets that may happen june twelve or may happen july ten anyway we want to have that done before the council acts on july  nineteen which is the actual public hearing and at that public hearing then you would be adopting the business plan and the ordinance should you again choose to do so at that time once we have that green light then we would actually prove the construction contract late in july and then the council would approve it in august or early so that we can get going on construction during august and september again as pete has mentioned this is a fairly low impact kind of construction a lot of it underground and you know not a lot of disturbance of activity in the downtown area however you know we will have a couple months of work going on to deploy the fiber setting up the equipment and getting customers hooked up so that we can have people on line in october is our goal and so very excited again and we know this is a priority of counsel to move this initiative forward this is an expanded pilot area we're learning from this as we move along and really excited to be walking along this path with you so any questions you have be happy to answer like being in the delivery room it's a boy it's a girl no it's a fiber system it's awesome brain i thought you have something to say i took years of of consent on first reading because i'd just like having dave up here i mean let's  honest talking about fiber and it's if we continue to have this process of a growing experiment and you said that best dave and i appreciate you using those terms because we are learning in this process and each step of the way gets us closer to what i think is is a strong achievable goal but a public private partnership and that being what we should have for our fiber infrastructure and  that idea of an open network that suggestion of we are a player on our own network and in addition to allowing others to kind of play ball and provide service or services plural  provides us with the with exactly what the city is intended to do and to look at these changes to the city ordinance and as well as our alignment with the metro acted in and other parts of the rules and regulations that go along with all this it's an important step along the way so that we can be compliant in these actions and really provide the customers in the people of holland  world class or beyond world class service when it comes down to it i admittedly am a user of this on the existing test pilot and yes you're right it is a significant difference in service between what i experience at home and pay for at home and what i'm experiencing and soon be paying for in my office i've been proud to be a part of that pilot and to have all of the kind of bumps along the way and i'm looking forward to the rest of downtown  amazing thank you for your technical experience and your business experience to get a move this idea forward i think is a great experiment and it's a testament of holland as an organization that is taking it by the reins and doing it ourselves and making something really many ways and it's in going back taking a trip with becky one can learn a lot and she was teaching me about fiber and its beginnings around here and it's really interesting to me as a nine scientist or engineer that it's just one hair which is a fiber and it carries all of this and you could put a whole bunch of them together and they are made of glass so they don't wear out except for the little do flick is on the ends that you switch every that fiber right just those little to flick the only issues we've had is if it been damaged by began or something like that but otherwise it it lasts and lasts and lasts so yeah yeah and when they put in the very first fiber back he was telling me that they didn't just do what they needed they put in double the fiber that they needed because they said there may be a market for more and is that a bedrock way to handle things and how and michigan i love that decision and i love the way that inspired us into a whole business opportunity with this utility that it is very very interesting how it all developed as not just a you know i'm sure there was some guy with a way back when who said you know those two routes for the way against just isn't going to do it we're going to have to put in highways and people said really you want to invest in all that and it got through and now we just accept highways everywhere we've got to have streets and that's what we're doing now with fiber we have to have this way to communicate in a whole faster better way in this world and so to be on the cutting edge of that is exciting i don't want to get it wrong but i probably will but i think there was a quote from henry ford that said if i gave the people what they wanted at that time it would them a faster horse so you know i mean it is that tell you know really what is in front of you and available or a possible yeah you know it takes sort of that visioning of what's possible for our community and i think this moves us that direction yeah that that's great i think even talk faster brian you know from all this giga stuff i do yeah that's good think faster work faster and he got the comments this momentous theory yes peters birch yes mierda board yes motion passes thank you thank you for staying tonight to help us with this occasion thank you moving on to the city clerk section with the new highland hatter days these spirits request yes we received the request to add the sale of spirits it the event that is scheduled this saturday june tenth for the header days previously you did a pre approved the sale of beer and  wine but with the liquor control commission they already had approved beer wine in spirits but it's up to council to add the spirits if they choose to because of ordinance so this is what we are requesting and this is what they have requested for from us ok thank you and so we are sorry we did send it to some departments for review  in public safety police and fire divisions downtown development of authority and principal shopping district in with no objection thank you do you have a motion yes a letter was received from college and i with no concerns as long as we had insurance in place or at least you think you any other so this will be in a fenced in area correct and i guess it will yes thank you mayor to board members of council as all you are aware we have a currently three canines excited about adding a fourth coming up one of our can i handlers joe rhyme it and his canine partner nicky have been with the unit for about five years now and beginning beginning of the winner joel started noticing some concerns with nicky she just didn't seem to be moving right here worse and within that was about a month and a half ago old joel talked to me and said he didn't know how much longer nicky was going to be able to remain on patrol on this to the point now that definitely her left front leg has some real problems report that you have and all i know is she's not working right unfortunately and nick he's only been with us for five years which is certainly shorter than what we normally expect for police canine but it's a dog it's not a machine  and for whatever reason whether she just had a propensity for this or you know weakness to begin with that her service life was sure than what we normally see that we just made the decision that she is going to be retiring i believe this coming not an easy thing for him to have to retire as canine but what that leaves us with now obviously is we are needing to replace nicky and since the inception of our canine unit back in two thousand and one all o canines have been purchased through northern michigan canine and we do want to continue purchasing through them and so we have the cord attached for a purchase of a canine is going to put the dog different supplies that go along with it the training up in northern canine michigan we're jewel will go up and do the training with the new dog once that selected eleven thousand five hundred dollars to purchase the dog the training will probably he will most likely be initially being able to have a good time to work with a dog beginning early july where we can pick up the dog take the dog here see if we feel this is the right one that we want to purchase the advantage of jewel being experienced handler he now can bring it start the training himself and see if this is in fact a quality dog so we have that opportunity and then down the road hill and i'm going up to northern michigan canine to complete the training and certifications with a new dog so hopefully by end of summer or early in september we can have that team back up and operational and then also with the purchase of the dog is now of course transfer ownership of nicky to joel and it will make you will transition from being his partner is worked out to being a pet at home and trying to make her life as comfortable as possible while she is still with us think about journaling yeah any comments if you don't mind me thank you very much for that synopsis and there are a couple of highlights that i'm unfortunately joltin get back to me so i'm going to take a liberty here and we're going to read the whole letter but there are a couple  pushing these for a long time we finally got in the budget now the fourth dog so that we have one in every shipped i think the the value that these dogs bring to the police officers and the community second to not maybe eleven thousand dollars and i wanted to be known and heard very clearly that the cost of the dogs has not come out of city funds this is been strictly donations and other fund raising here is coming up at the end of this month very well attended the tenth i think it is which is unheard of for golf outings usually they run five to six years and they die off that's how much the community believes excuse me and what we're doing here and what the police department is doing so much so that we probably have thirty six teams to eighteen so it takes a little bit longer to golf but boy oh boy is a heck of a lot of fun so if you will indulge me enjoy i'm sorry you didn't answer me but i'm going to go ahead of the way i'm not going to read the whole of the letter but  captain burst my mention there was a couple i just want to give a couple small excerpts here just of the life of the dog and the life of the owner of the trainer i think back on her five years with us or with me and us and bring some great memories excuse me beginning with the first day s are a bit clearer for canine school i was like a kid in a candy shop so excited about so excited what was to come in our futures partners at believe it or not the first three days of school nicky never barked when the cruiser shocking i know and he's got kind of a reputation for being a little chatterbox  but then on day four for reasons i stuck in a dish stand and figure out why the barking commenced and the rest as they say is history perhaps my mom my one of my favorite most memorable apprehensions with mickey was when we went up to to assist coming out of the county which we do share canine race they come down here we go up there where it's needed on a part of alarm where the arriving deputy could see the suspect inside a perimeter was a stablished and responded to assist with call outs we arrived there thinking that we were going to do a building search so we walked to the back door with her prong collar and a short leash we soon discovered that  hills to thick brush and branches which of course a cave with of course occasional deer hidden in there after about fifty five minutes of searching and flushing out the suspect after hiding briefly and then losing him again we finally located the suspect next to a tree mickey also then this is all ended up here nicky also love looking for dough even though we never had one of those huge fines with major weight and cash and he had a lot of small fines one of many that i was proud of remember well was during a search warrant when we got called out while searching the closet the first room that he went back and forth between two areas and ended up alerting in a section of long sleeve shirts we met detectives began searching the area i remember officer slink about a year ago and when henry came to a similar situation i had to retire early and as i've said it before and my colleagues know my son in law is also a canine officer so i have a real passion for this and a real deep appreciation a little bit maybe a little bit better understanding how living through his eyes putting an officer in a dog together you don't get to better partners they think stops short of saying they think alike but they understand each other they can tell that the handler can tell how the dog is reacting the dog tells how the handler reacts and the time savings that they've had the the lives that these canine officers have saved because they protect their their  their handler so that being said with i want to thank joel for sharing that letter for sharing his time with nikki and  fully supporting the fact that this will be a pet i know joel carries for cures for this dog very much and i wished them earlier good luck and a long retirement for nicky very comfortable once so i will be supporting this motion the national conversation like a canine friend is a real comfort and a loyal companion and extremely smart at finding what we can't smell as you and so it's a wonderful thing i'm wondering about these dogs the breeding of these dogs higher do you think there's a reason that they are not living longer is there i've i mean i've heard of that with certain breeds that if they're too inbred they start to have hip problems that i know a larger dog like this can often have hip problems and leg problems but have you ever asked that question at northern michigan yeah i know particularly with the shepherds too they have notorious for the hip problems some of that i don't know if it's just the breed i never ask what the reasons are other than the fact that i've heard that that is the case i know you know the mission canine quite as long as we normally expected why we've had now a couple that want a little shorter than normal i have no idea yeah you know who knows what they're doing in europe but it might be a good question certainly to to look into it but yeah and i know larger breeds have that that issue and you can probably just have some that are that way but he was excellent to tell his hips and went out right on nikki was a phenomenal dog great trucker yeah yes yeah thank you we have any other comments anyone has we'll have a roll call please ana oh five year nation from united way for the hauen use connection program in the amount of united way are always sure in the amount of one hundred sixty five dollars and seventy nine cents the civic center improvement project received three donations nathan box in the amount of one thousand dollars ryan kind in the amount of five hundred and keith hopkins in the amount of five hundred howland m bloomed received three donations from one from central park law p l c in the amount of five hundred michigan west coast chamber of commerce in the amount of five hundred m from various donors in the amount of six thousand four  hundred forty four dollars to grant nature center received for donations one from john rincon the amount of fifty jurymen bruce baker in the amount of seventy dollars and rosemarie albert in the amount of a thousand dollars khadijah association in the amount of one hundred ten dollars police operations received a donation from west michigan community bank in the amount of one thousand dollars the city of holland hosting the host city for the reception for the two thousand and seventeen michigan meanest bully received a five thousand dollar donation from charity communications fine thank you that carries amazing list of generous people for so many good causes thank you so we're on to the civic center improvement project for an a  pointer point meant of an owner's project representative ryan thank you as you know the bids were just awarded for projects of the first package and as with any construction projects important to make sure the right answers are available especially during renovation projects while the trades are on site so what is typically recommended is that the owner have a project representative who is available on a day to day basis often had a lesson an hour's notice and  to be to work alongside the project manager in the trailer and make some judgment calls in relation to the contingency budget that might come into play depending on what's found when the project is underway and walls are uncovered it cetera so i believe we have someone on staff who's uniquely suited for that given his knowledge and experience both with the city and with construction projects and that's our assistance of the city manager mab and dyke and so  as you know there's a percent continues in this project to allow for unforseen circumstances so with that he would be enabled to make some judgement calls on a day to day basis rather than waiting for two weeks for the next council meeting i want to hasten to say that the there would be no expenditure that wouldn't be reported to the city council these change orders would be tracked and you would receive monthly financial reports as is typical  projects of this kind and as you get for the entire city budget so all that knowledge will come to you eventually but this would keep the trades underway without us spinning their wheels and costing us time and money  the recommendation would be does nation the map and i can technology services director and systems of the city manager is a city of holland's project representative along with approval of change earth already to make the says expenditures cision so i want to add the word contingency expenditure decisions up to twenty five thousand dollars without advance city council approval thank you ryan so that is the recommendation do we have a motion motion to adopt the recommended changes and wor support supported by then discussion well i think we have to find someone the faithful loyal and wise and that would be mr matt and i can as our own is representative very thankful for the number of projects he has had to see through from beginning to and s on to communications from the city manager right thank you i just have to one in the list of policy potential discussions coming up in a future study session  might be some partnerships that could be aligned but that's something i want to make sure you have heard as well so the second item here is this city will be working on submitting a grant to the community foundation nineteenth so that doesn't allow a lot of time for council discussion but i don't think that there would be any objection but if there is please let me know and we will make sure that we get that on the next study session otherwise we'll just proceed all things pickle ball though i think they're going to have some hot dogs and other kinds of celebration there so it should be a lot of fun in a neighborhood park that's just getting redone and revamped so the beef join the fun and also course saturday farmer's market we're in full tilt with wednesday and saturday farmers markets and they'll be starting the chefs series at ten o'clock every saturday and there of the things for kids on wednesdays those types of events are going to be held at the northwest corner of the whole civic center place so just kind of make your way over there if you want those kind of events and have have fun with those and the street performers are back there starting this next thursday the fifteenth we're going back to the original type of schedule of a six thirty to eight thirty time bracket so they had like eighty people apply and about sixty were chosen so should be fine and having the street performers at full tilt between six thirty and eight thirty and thursdays we're glad about that and then speaking about police we have a really fun item that just happened this week and maybe you saw it on t v maybe you didn't so just in case you didn't there is a new truck in town called the polar patrol which is a fun name i think suharto came up with from our community neighborhood services and this is a donated van and that has been revamped with all kinds of donations the whole interior has been redone with their freezer in the sink and and they put in a side door that they can the slider that they can open up and serve and they've had donated ice cream it started out at peach wave on tuesday and it will be appearing throughout the community this summer and this is all part of and after to encourage good communication and good relationships with in the community and the police it's just a wonderful afeard and it's so fine and  so sweet for the kid to protect and serve frozen treats and i couldn't like that and the crew and they have a polar bear and a police uniform and i think i'd be a great way for children to feel comfortable with police and be willing to accept their help in difficult situations and i we're just so grateful for a long list of donors that really care about this project and are willing to give to support the police and in this day and age and the type of national conversation there is this is a priceless gift not only to the police department but often also to the children of the community and to the relationships that will result in a much safer much tighter fabric in our communities so we are grateful for all those people that were involved in making this possible and have fun with the frozen treats the summer so will i we're moving on to communications from council members as anybody have something they would like to share your brain you have something oh nobody ok then we have motions or resolutions from council members anything then we need a motion to go into a closed session to review