are very thankful that you're all well enough to be here after firecrackers happened so we want to start with a roll call please and couple things that we have done for decades we'll start with an opening prayer led by our colleague councilman whiteman and after that we'll have the pledge of allegiance we usually stand for that mage you would like to join us you're welcome to  please join me in prayer father in heaven we come before you today thankful to call this amazing place home way and that we are privileged to be part of this great place and we know that your hand has been on it for generations we pray lord tonight a special prayer of thanksgiving for the freedom that we just celebrated and we think you for those that have sacrificed to retain that through many conflicts and battles over the years and so we think those in service and we think those that protect those freedoms today and so father as we said about the the business of the city tonight keep us mindful of the actions that we take and how they impact those freedoms and may we be sensitive to those in need delicate as we try to make sure that freedom r i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for  thank you tad whiteman with your thoughts and prayers and now we'll go on to the consented to the consent agenda is a list of items that we have already spoken about as a council and have agreed to approve with one one motion however you may have come here because you want to talk about one of those items and if that's the case after anna reads the list on the consent agenda i will open it up and you can come to the podium give us your name address and which item you would like pulled from the consent agenda and then that will be handled in its sequence as it appears on the written agenda that you have so anna please give us those consent items to approve the amended agenda item four executes the absence of council member byrd for b to approve the minutes of the june twenty one regular meeting june twenty eighth study and special meeting in june fourteenth  from located at fourteen forty eight lincoln after study and report twelve c one to approve various documents with the apple during assisted living project which require dedication for road drainage and other matters and that attorney fees and costs which have been incurred in connection with the preparation review and execution of these documents be paid in reimbursed by apple during assisted living center twelve do you want to refer claims filed against the city to the city's insurance carrier and city attorney for consideration to adopt a resolution granting local first educational foundation a special permit to serve alcohol in washington square on august nineteenth two thousand seventeen from three p m to nine p m twelve the three to adopt a resolution to place on the two thousand and seventeen winter tax bills unpaid utility charges and not operating utility invoices which remain i'm paid for a three month period as of july one two thousand and seventeen and which are not paid in full on or before november tenth two thousand and seventeen and that the deputy clerk publish the required notice two point one to adopt a resolution indicating support for pursuing the redevelopment ready committee's community's certification twelve eat two point two two approved germination of the mechanical inspector contract with hal in charge of township p procedures in the contract previously approved on july sixth two thousand and sixteen and to authorize a director of community neighborhood services to send correspondence to the township of the contract germination provide a thirty day notice of the decision and notifies at the last day of service will be august twelfth two thousand and seventeen item four point one to declare barry s items in bicycles acquired by the police division as surplus with donations to be made to seventy times seven and also listed property room dot com for disposal in sale four point two to prove the purchase of a john deere utility tractor with loader and a current front here carrier loader mount snow blower from green america equipment inc at the cost of fifty one thousand five ninety nine eighty nine to be paid from the centralized vehicle and equipment found four point three two except the may two thousand pending approval last a form by the city attorney four point seven to approve payment in the amount of forty eight thousand one hundred thirty seven dollars to write way plumbing and heating for the replacement at the a fluid cooler at hauen museum and to be paid from the municipal capital improvement plan twelve the four point eight to approve the bid to purchase to sixty to seventy two inch taller toro zero turn mowers from western brook mower at a total cost of twenty nine thousand eight hundred seventy dollars and ninety cents to be paid from the sun tries vehicle and equipment fun twelve four point nine to approve the purchase every two thousand eight hundred international in chasse's from west michigan international at a cost of ninety thousand five hundred eighty one dollars and twelve cents and a monroe r d s stainless steel combination salt spreader dump truck from truck and trailer specialties at a cost of thirty one thousand eight hundred ninety nine for a total cost of one hundred twenty two thousand four hundred eighty dollars and twelve cents to be paid from the centralized vehicle and equipment and item twelve e s six point two t approve the proposed wage is just made up two point two five for our general nine city nonunion employees for fiscal year july one two thousand and seventeen to june thirtieth two thousand and e thank you hannah so where any of those items things that you wanted to talk about as a part of this meeting if that's the case please step forward give us your name and address and which item you would like pulled from that consent  twelve to please thank you the local first foundation quest any other items yes i would like twelve or i'm sorry twelve four point council about something and you are welcome to do so one at a time and please step forward to the podium give us your name and address and you have five minutes to address council the green light means go the yellow light means one minute left and the red light means your five minutes are up so we open to public comment at this time good evening mayor de boer and council members my name is mary white ford on the state representative for the a t f just worked in allegheny county and i just wanted to come by and give you a legislative update today i have been on appropriations i am the  and then i spent a lot of time on the health and human services budget the final budget has been completed we are just awaiting the governor's signature hopefully that is what we are going to be in session next week i think he might be waiting  for some support on one of his initiatives before he signs off politics unfortunately but there's a lot of there's a lot on the line there's a lot of of money on the line for our communities so i just want to make sure that that is taking care of so that we're al going into the new fiscal year my priority going through this budget number one was revenue sharing i heard that from you guys and ice told the chair at that that was really important so we did increase that to two and a half percent by two and a half percent the proposal was to keep it flat but that wasn't an option so i want to make sure that you guys get as much of your statutory money as possible in the counties actually get an additional one percent be in the chair the d e q i wanted to make sure that that money we was being spent efficiently we did use less general funds money on that budget but we're really maintaining a good gov good environment broadband it's not so much in holland but the rest of the county broadband is a really big issue so the governor did set aside thirty six million dollars for an infrastructure fund and i am staying in communication on what exactly they want to spend that money on make sure that the fair so much of our money has been going directly to one point in the state or two points in the state and there's a lot of michigan left so i want to make sure that we all have some equity to that one of my big priorities i was on the community mental health railgun county in the region including out of a county when i was on that board i found that money was not going to where it really needed to be with our vulnerable people and so i got very very involved in that budget working with councilman whiteman as well on that  i didn't get exactly what i wanted but i think it's a lot more more complicated and one particular thing is how medicaid money gets into the state and how it's dispersed and so i'm going to keep that conversation going i'm going to iowa next week to meet with other legislators and try to figure out the best practices to make sure that money isn't staying up at the top it's getting down to the people that need it most and we see it with the drug abuse this opioid crisis is really terrible and it's believe it or not ninety nine percent of all opiates in the world are being used in the united states something is not right so i've got a few things that i'm working on with that and some pain specialists as well auto insurance auto insurance reform i don't know if you know there's basically three parts to it one is the catastrophic care for people have insurance another is the no fault and the third is the assign claims and that's uninsured victims we had a package of four bills and i had one of those bills that was probably the most controversial to  requirements that a person has to go through to apply for benefits simply made it the same as the rest of us rate payers i could not get enough support in the house so i'm going to keep that battle going because it's a really big issue and all of our elders all of our elderly people on fixed incomes probably every single one of us we've got at least one car in those costs i just keep rising every year and it's going up another ten dollars people say it's only ten dollars and i say well ten dollars and ten dollars and ten dollars you're bleeding our people before you know it rates have gone up so high as they have so many keep that battle on my summer agenda does i'm really going to put a lot of time into that mental health issue i'm also working on the you i was reading in a consumer's report july of last year that explained that michigan maybe it's other states as well the insurance companies actually use a lot of different criteria other than your driving record to there's more to it than that but you seem to be fairly worse than this is that is that part of this it's one of the many things i mean we we here in west michigan don't have quite as much of an issue as a real urban area for that but there's so many factors and a big thing is that it is not transparent we mandate it as a state but we can't have that information so we can't get to the freedom of information act to find out specifically where that money is being spent it's a contradiction i don't think that's right i think if we're mandating as a state and is to be transparent just like any other state agency and it's a big battle it's a big battle but that is one of the many things so you're hoping to have a good package going into the fall what i heard from my colleagues was either it wasn't enough my little teeny assigned claims part or one of the lobbyist thinking about it so very very frustrating i know there's something called michigan connect connect michigan and they have everybody's set up into blocks right well so if that's the case one hundred ninety seven percent of eligible counties covered ok but that's my number one issue so you can have just a little teeny area that has coverage and they say ok you're covered the whole township has coverage right so i would prefer to not have them quite at the table because the information's so skewed but i've sat down with every single every single stakeholder over the past year and even the railroads sure and i've got some ideas and i've been working with congressman upton on them as well and then with the governor's staff as well i think a big thing is grants i think we need to help people at the last mile the big companies are going to go there so how do we make sure that that they will go there so let's grant let's i would like a community to be able to define there is a high need areas and be able to apply for that so that's where i keep getting back to but hopefully we really fresh on a lot of people's years ago fireworks ok little discussion on the radio this morning about that throughout the community i understand that there's thirty days  year my neighborhood started on father's day i didn't know father's day was now one of the ten national holidays and i have to say that last night i swore that there was dynamite going off two blocks over now i understand that there's a lot of money coming in from that i hope the states real happy with that money because there's a lot of people that are really upset with it it's not a popular item to bring up again and somebody saying well you know if you don't like it leave well when i have to lock my house up and put the air conditioning on so that my dogs and my grandchildren are not scared it's come to a point where it's ridiculous i'm not going to deny anybody any time for their celebrations that's what it's all about when i was younger a couple of bottle rockets what have you but this is just gotten out of hand we need some help from the state level specifically because the state is the one that put the rules that we can't do anything about we need some help on the regulation cutting the dime down cutting the type whatever has to happen we're going to have some catastrophic problems here real quick and i really really feel sorry for the vets i've got  i've got a son and daughter in law are sorry and in every sense i have a daughter and son in law that both served in iraq in the first time that they came back it was heartbreaking i don't want to see anybody go through that we need to do something and we need to do something soon put the power back in the communities whatever has to happen but it needs to be brought up and it needs to be brought up very quickly thank you thanks for sharing your story you thank you mary we really appreciate all your hard work and just the breadth of these questions we realize that you're only one person but you work very hard we understand that too so thank you for being willing to listen and to report and to give us a  face to go with what we read in the paper and that and a real person to talk to i did want to mention i know that you care a lot about sex trafficking and and the problem with for a show that throughout the state throughout the country and i just heard  some excellent things are being done in houston texas they have a great program going there that has really made a dent in all of that underground activity and so i don't know if there was anything going on at the state level that we could maybe make a connection about that you know well we'll talk about it later chris like to get your e mail about it so thank you ok great and thank you everybody for what you do for the community this is such a wonderful community and thanks for always being open for discussions to throughout the past year and a honorable members council bob jeanette's he with a brief update from the county clerk's office i appreciate the opportunity prior to the meeting is your where i handed out to each of you a list of services that we provide our county clerks and registered deeds office that's not a comprehensive list for a comprehensive list you in your constituency i want to look at the website unfortunately county website needs a little bit of work so i've been touting the paper around the county as best i can and to answer the most frequently asked questions that both my constituents and yours have of us down an alley and so you see the most frequently asked questions relative to or the answers to the most frequently asked questions relative to marriage licenses doing business as agreements sort of hide copies of your birth certificate if you're born in allegheny county and there are fewer and fewer people in that situation because there are no more hospitals that do births in allegheny county except on a an emergency basis which does leave us a big trend of an awful lot of people doing county and they have to bring in the little newborn him or herself in the in the little swaddling clothes and i get to id the baby id the parents and sign off on the birth certificate right there which is a unique opportunity on the second page him from ation on how to file a notary bond as well as processing in d d two fourteen which i'd like to come back to across the hall in our office we've got the registered deeds office at one thirteen chestnut where you might file a deed by the counties latest plan book or or have passport services not to compete with the fine job the deputy clerk paralysis does here down to city hall but find yourself in the middle of the county where we're welcome and we'd like to help you out as well want to jump up to the middle page there are two processing d d two fourteen's i know that hounds are very patriotic community and you've got an awful lot of people who have served in the armed forces and those who are currently serving it's incredibly important that you being community leaders encouraged those who live in allegheny county  to bring their d d to fourteen which is papers of honorable discharge down of the county clerk's office so that we can process them there typically when a soldier sailor airman or marine leaves the military he or she gets one copy of those papers and if you lose thought dealing with the federal government was fun on april fifteenth losing those dd to fourteen and trying to get in replace is really a difficult task so what you want to encourage those veterans to do is bring that paper down to the county clerk office will process the paper give them their original back a certified copy and then forever and ever they will be certified copies they're the clerk's office and they can access them in their heirs and with that they can access the g i bill benefits the v benefits and the missions better instead the nation on the driver's license that i was proud to vote for while in the state house is a free service one of the few free services that actually do out of our office so please encourage your veteran says to get down there and take advantage of that as you're probably aware there was a recent election on may second public schools had an election and it was our pleasure down in late town township to cross the border and make sure that we can make those results results and then working with us to tabulate all those as you may have read in the paper as as you're aware you're getting brand new voting systems you're getting different ones and we are in allegheny county you're going to go with hardener civic because of the very fortunate situation where by out of the county purchases your elections machines it's very nice situation for you and it's been a blessing to work with clerk roebuck he's been a fine mentor we went with different voting system south of the county line but you'll all have the same i'm bored here with hardener civic under clerk roebuck we were pleased in allegheny county to defer any costs through the grants offered by the state legislature they were originally provided by the help america votes act that you might recall came out of the hanging chad situation in florida congress who was worried about all of our abilities to vote and so they allocated ranch money so the kernel election machines that we have in both alley in and out of the county and throughout the state were paid for with federal funds those help those help america votes x money there was a little bit of that left about thirty million left at the state legit state level and that was allocated to provide grants throughout the throughout the state thirty million and that was the federal money and then the legislature tacked on ten million additional to provide those grants to the secretary of state's office we appreciate the work of you and the work of allegheny county commissioners in passing the resolutions to allow us all locally to participate in that grant situation councilman burke you asked about a kind of broadband collaborative in and throughout our county at this point allen county it appears to  to be taking place at the township level is not necessarily from what i can see a county wide movement in that direction of course the counties kind of disjointed in in service providers with that in mind i will remind you that when the  light answer further i think the diversity you see in the providers is typical of most most communities or counties that have a sharp divide between urban and rural and you see it not a county as well and the reason i asked that of mary if there was something coming through there is because of the conversation has been having in iowa and you see very very rural parts of the northern part of our county that have coverage and i'm using air quotes around if there's a way for you to have that conversation at the county level i think that kind of would help and if you know you and mary were were able to talk about that a little further i think it would be an advantageous tool for you and ruin allen county would appreciate your high speed internet without without money to back in it's a challenge and it seems like it's going to have to be a strong initiative from either the state or the federal government to strongly courage providers to do a little more to offer that as i mentioned over the love for us to have been able to put the our money there unfortunately the federal government wanted those directed toward shovel ready projects and i can tell you how that benefit is has benefited us long term but i think the rural communities didn't benefit as much from the monies as as the some of the more urban communities but i hear you and i appreciate the opportunity to continue talking about that thank you any other comments or questions thank you bob coming in good to see everyone thank you k we'll move down then to the local first education foundation requests for the oh i'm sorry what a close thank you i'm sorry is anyone else have a public comment did to staff people i'm sorry sorry i mind your name address and what you'd like to talk about he got an engineer here today he at this meeting i did talk to about it i think yesterday or the need before they were going to discuss it we they had a meeting i wasn't notified about it i had a neighbor have to tell me about it and you had your city engineers down there and for the better people that don't know it's going on it never passed inspection they took samples of it in your engineers said well the materials were all proper materials but my complement a man with two first name brian lee and came out and looked at it along with some of the done nothing has been said i wasn't notified i've lived there for forty six plus years and i wasn't notified that they were even having a meeting down here in a city engineers would honor and i see all the other people down there and they will admit it doesn't look right but it does pass the tests well let me tell you passing a test doesn't mean anything you know you can take stone say in an asphalt and you if you don't mix it properly you're not going to get the proper thing is just like cement people all the time i read in the paper about the they're finishing cement downtown in holland they don't finish cement they finish concrete and cement is just one of the products that goes in to make concrete and when you don't mix asphalt with the sand in the stone and you know those things that go in with it you don't get a proper design and mix and i want to know why the city hasn't done anything about it and why they have notified me when they were going to have a meeting so you don't tell me that you're you're not an engineer and you don't understand that because i've heard that story before i want to tell you that we're as the south shore projects moving along we're going to have a meeting with the people on the street there to talk about with the contractor with all of you and i'll make sure to get you the information after tonight's meeting and you got my cell phone number you call many times well so this is going hear no yeah so we're as part of that as the constructions moving down south where they were going to get a timed in at the same time so we'll get you all the info and make sure that you're comfortable with the solution i know it's a little bit of a unique dynamic there because of the your property that you guys contracted with them directly so we'll make sure we get all taken care of well i'm for meals school i don't have e mail and all the other stuff but i do have a telephone and i do have a mailing address and there's only other three other ways that you can do it they all used to say it's telephone telegraph and tell a greek so i hope they tell the greek thank you thank you sarah you know i was emailing brained about that today i had some conversations this weekend so this it's not over and we're still working on it we want to do the right thing for all of you so thank you for coming in sir and he went out so have something for public comment just proceed to the podium give us your name and address you have five minutes this time i think we're done ok thank you we'll close public comment and then we move to the local first education foundation request for sale and consumption of alcohol for their local first lake shore street party this you know thank you thank you this report comes to us to you for consideration local first week sure st party has been this is their fourth year i believe coming to washington square to hold  event and so what we need to do is adopt a resolution allowing this to happen on cities property on the street so they've hosted their very well known in the grand rapids area they've had held street parties for eleven consecutive years there they have the experience and the capacity to hold the smaller version here in our city the area will be completely fenced off to control access to and from the party and all servers  will our tips trained and they will ensure per serving of alcohol on alcohol and so what we're asking is to adopt a resolution to allow this event to happen at washington square on it's a great event everyone should go to it it's a lot of fun it's just a little business district you know the great lakes i've been to that to people like it and the other comments was certain credit card fees should be paid and the attached agreement which was signed by chef provide specific terms and conditions to resolve the credit card fees and repayment plan to fully reimburse the amount that was overpaid by the first of march on to us the first time i think i don't want to speak for everyone but i know i sat there kind of in shock at this number you know the two ninety six  three hundred thousand dollars that we we overpaid and i guess and my question is how did this happen and how do we prevent this from happening again  the reconciliation was done after we had some staff changes which was initiated by real my office or my office actually discovered this information i will say that  the yard waste i mean amateur much into the easy go with the yard waste was billed to the city on an annual basis instead of the during the service months it was provided that's how that's where that discrepancy came from so it was we were paid we paid them for services for a twelve month cycle and seven a month cycle so we could have we would so we kept paying them for more months is that is that how this word we received invoices the pay back of this is that correct they've actually started ripping some of the some of the dollars have already been repaid to citi this plan calls for a cash payment as well as a monthly payment that will last the caught up as i said within a period of the months so that the catch is that the cash people that you're as referred to in that resolution that initial payment correct ok ok so everything should be rectified by next march if nap before correct is shifts plan to try to to exceed that we discussed a quick repayment strategy and  parking deck agreement and i believe that brings our finance director back up again thank you sir could you help us through this interesting conversation this is a pretty exciting project that has been under discussion at work for some time tonight counsel is going to be asked to approve it agreement with going into cock properties l l c to transfer property construct a parking structure on one street between river and pine and to enter into a lease agreement for parking spaces to sort of summarize what we're talking about here let's see here real the agreement basically is going to transfer some city owned property relook begin construction on a three hundred eighty space parking structure and then after that is completed the city will buy that parking structure back for an amount of six million seven hundred eighteen thousand five hundred dollars that transaction will take place before the end of calendar year two thousand and eighteen it could be earlier than later that's current discussion has been somewhere in  two spaces and as long as that deck is in place and then finally g d k will be paying taxes in the maintenance costs for their spaces so all the costs related to their use of that  of those spaces will be covered and paid for by the group let's talk a little bit of how we're going to pay for that basically the city intends to issue a debt issues and sell bonds for that so in two thousand eight hundred the city intends to sell some bonds in the amount of seven million dollars the debt service payment will come from property taxes paid by the new buildings so the way it works  the taxes paid currently on the properties in that area will remain the same and it will be paid to the current current taxing jurisdictions however similar to the seventh street parking structure both  these cities currently owns this property that property used to be over in the city did a property swap with judy k some months ago that allowed the construction of this building and exchange to receive this property we did an appraisal we didn't a valuation so there was a kind of a per square foot dollar price equitably price and then what will happen then is once this property this property be transferred over to g d k somewhere around the first of the year and then when they can deplete the parking structure on this entire larger space in in a minute doug's going to show us what that's going to look like then once that's all completed then the city will acquire all all along with the parking structure that's going to sit on top of that if you do the math on what that parking structure will cost us at six point seven million that's about sixteen thousand dollars a space it's about a third less than we paid for the parking deck on seventh street about a decade ago so that's a stream competitively competitive price for that and it along with that of course comes the property that currently zone by d d kate so those are the sort of in introduction to what those agreements talk about is sort of the looks it takes a look at what the property looks like and i'm going to at this point in time turn this over to  explain a little bit about what the parking structure will look like and then a little bit more about some of the additional structures that will be built in that area thank you jim jim just such a good job of helping us understand all those finances if we could have the pictures of the of the parking ramp now that's just a vision of what it will look like from ninth street as you can see it's very similar in design to that's that's kind of a bird's eye view again from ninth street and there you'll see in the center that entrance that i was just shown on the previous picture all the way to the right is another entrance and that entrance will go down to the lower level and the lower level be reserved for for our folks who are living in condos and apartments and so forth and that's the purpose of that will be gated those will be reserved spaces they'll be able to go down there parked their cars and go up to their apartments or condos maybe next picture that that shows the picture from a little different view shows or a new building there  there's also a small parking lot to the south of our new building it just didn't work for the for the structured to go any further to the east it got too close to the central building which is kind of the pinch point we had to work around maybe next one tim that kind of shows the west end of the of the parking structure and there will be a drive through there too and we're anticipating another building on the corner there on ninth and pine and that will be probably some more retail building and maybe some apartments above it well and then the last picture and that shows between the parking ramp and the proposed buildings that we have along a street you can also see where in the distance there the civic center and this area will be snow melted it will be similar to what we have behind a lot of the stores downtown now which is just a nice walkway comfortable about it will be twenty five to thirty feet wide it will provide for  deliveries but it will also be a very comfortable place to feel comfortable walking from store to store on the back side of the store it also provides a nice transition from the parking ramp to to the  stores and restaurants and we expect to have a long night street i should also mention that what you're looking at there is the center tower the center tower will have an elevator in it as well as a stairway and then there will be a stairway on the west and the east down as well the rampal have three floors on the north side of it it will have two floors along ninth street for a total of about three hundred eighty parking spaces there and then i think there's about another eighteen or twenty in the lot directly behind the new building forty four west eighth that we're under construction with now if you can i guess i'd like to just summarize a little bit where we've been on this whole project and i'm assuming that we get approval of the of this tonight we want to go forward with the plans and go to the planning commission on august eighth with the parking structure and get the approval on that and then we would expect to begin construction as tim said earlier sometime in january we think we can have it finished about jun another piece of the puzzle in what we're doing in developing this this block as you'll recall i think it was last april or may when we kind of brought our plans forward for our vision for this block and that included  building some retail and mixed use buildings along a street that really kind of meet what we've done in the past or what we've got existing on a street right now with the retail but also some apartments and offices restaurants and so forth we really want to connect the farmers market the civic center area with downtown and this block leaves a little bit to be desired that seemed like a good place to start working on our first building there forty four west will contain canterbury cottage on the main floor canterbury cottage will be doing a new furniture store there and they will continue to have their other store which will be focused more on the canterbury kids line so they will have two stores downtown and they're very excited a lot about expanding here we have to look time occupying a part of this  building as well and then towards the back of the building as you can see there's kind of a nice little what we call a pocket park between the building in the back and the rears rear buildings or the rears of the building of  ers world and that's and those stores which will work out nicely the second and third floor will each of the eight apartments and the fourth floor will be five condominiums the central building next door will has been renovated for the sentinel the one east portion of that the main floor is going to be occupied by seventy six restaurant seventy six restaurant is owned by lucas grill who owns a public restaurant in zealand if you haven't been there you should you should go there because it's a really fine restaurant and we're really excited of lucas as part of  maybe the next picture tim is sixty west eight we've just brought that in front of the planning commission and will be at that meeting next tuesday this building is directly to the west of the central building and to the east of courthouse square it will be a four story building with retail again on the main floor retail or restaurant and then the third fourth and second third and fourth floors will be apartments we're looking at probably about eighteen apartments in that building six on each floor so between that and the residences we have in forty four last will get will we will have  brought almost forty units residential units to downtown just in this little bit of time i think it's always good to kind of review the goals that i know chuck again and my partner and i have had  with this project but i think i think they're shared by by most of you as well and that is you know downtown hound's a beautiful place to live and work and be and shop and we want to make it we want to continue to make it better and as i said earlier this block i left a little bit to be desired i think we've got a great start on it and we want to make this fit continue to fit more into downtown there's been a desire to have more residences downtown  as i just said when we're nearly forty units in these first two buildings and anytime you can bring people downtown to live in and eat work and play and everything else it's just a good thing and  so we're excited about that and then finally and there's many other goals but i guess these are kind of our three main goals and that is to connect the downtown to the waterfront i've been hearing about that is for years and years how an important that is and how we should strive to get that and when i look now compared to even five years ago when i didn't really see that as a possibility i look now at this block and i look at what we're doing to the civic center and i say we're halfway there ready i mean this is really exciting stuff and if we can connect downtown to the waterfront it's really a tremendous advantage for tourism for the strength of our downtown and for a community of the whole and i think  really made a large step in that direction for those of you who kind of decided not to take advantage of this beautiful night tonight you're going to get a nice treat tonight because you're going to get in on the ground floor of the fourth building and the fourth building if you want to put that up right here and this building will be about a twenty thousand square foot footprint it will be two floors although it looks like multiple floors but again we wanted to keep the look of downtown holland so it appears to be multiple buildings but it's really one building it's it's two hundred feet wide and one hundred feet deep roughly and many of you are probably focusing on one word there right now and that's called sentiment and i am pleased to announce tonight that  we are going to have a movie theater downtown again after many many years and that movie theater is going to be you know first rate technology it's going to be the newest and greatest and  comfortable seating restaurant and the whole works and we're very excited about that we would anticipate starting this building in january of next year and  opening it probably the following january february something like that if everything goes according to schedule one thing i guess i should mention too because i know there's been some excitement and that we're going to have an escalator and that's because that's the only way to move off people from the second first reed with charterhouse holdings and chuck e is graciously agreed to say a few words a night about what he's going to do inside because he's the guy that's going to open the movie theaters so chuck if you don't mind  quite some time and doug and chuck and i have been working on a location for probably a little bit longer than we all have to support it but fortunately we've come to an agreement that if this is the right time in the right place to put a movie theater for some of you don't know this will be our second we just opened up our first in port huron in december it's called sperry's movie house and it's outfitted and designed by charterhouse innovations our company that also made city flat hotel if you've ever heard of city flats hotel we designed that furnished as well also have another company called first class seating where we make theater chairs recliners and all of the best chairs that we have to market so will be another show room for us to showcase our ability to provide the best world class movie movie experience in the world so what we've done over port huron is we took in one nine hundred twenty three department store and turned it into a boutique movie theaters when i was like two things of beauty we should have about looking about ten screens will be an intimate feel when you go  there the other thing we'll do is it'll be the second in the world where all the chairs will be run off of one hundred percent renewable solar power so we've got a a terrific way of taking solar power and then taking that solar power and story it into repurposed prius batteries and able to operate when the sun goes down so we're a little unique obviously we like to do our sustainability and that's our way of doing it so we're very pleased  to to create another new little landmark in downtown to go along with our city flat so we've got a place for you can eat watch a movie in and spend the night so we've got you covered here in downtown holland for all your  entertainment needs we should have about five hundred seats that's rich we're shooting for we'll have a restaurant on site with all reserved seats the finest recliners that you can you can get it's all i can say so since december i will tell you this one little quick story we got a call from disney studios it's a small outfit out in los angeles or somewhere and they called us out of the clear blue about two weeks they wanted to know what the secret of our success or sperry's movie house and here we are a new guy and we're competing with actually the same two competitors here in holland and we've now taken over the lead the market for the last two months with several hundred fewer chairs because we have obviously the best the best chairs on the market today so that's what we plan to do is bring that same same quality of design  will be made right here in holland so everything you get is about as local you can get is all the furnishings designed in the chairs will be made right here in well merry christmas and look at how exciting and yeah thank you so much check and it is great to have the synergy of creativity and design and entrepreneurial vast meant and construction people that understand the value of all of that and i'll holistic group of investors that realize what a gift downtown is but how much more it can be in the not so distant future and to be able to have people go shopping and then have movie and a restaurant and stay overnight because there's just so much to do you get to check it all out and that is very exciting and then opening a conference center with the civic center and people drifting off from that to catch a movie and to go shopping and to stay wow that is just an amazing picture and it is very very exciting does anyone else have something to say sorry i couldn't help myself yeah mike yeah i was going to give you a little bit of a hard time because you mentioned twice about the the forgetting your about the feel of downtown i think i use the term the urban canyon but i believe what we've got going on here is not going to make it feel as such it's it's going to give the  openness that we need that we enjoy along the street that the buildings are not going to overpower the street and i appreciate that being able to use the progress that you have there the different looks of the building project with charterhouse really shows an openness of thought and a willingness to experiment and in check read this is just incredible i didn't know anything about sperry's before this kind of came to us is as a as the the property deal and it's just you should be lauded for being able to do this type of work when others much larger than you have no interest in doing this type of work in a city like this they see the two cinemas that we currently have and they just shake their head no and he said yes and that's that that that really shows a lot of bravery and we're looking forward to this and we think will be well used by the by the residents it's just amazing to have a movie theater in walking distance terms of our parking deck and say well you know six plus million dollars a lot of money to spend on a party that maybe we should be wonky more parking and driving lives but that's certainly what this gives another example of how things work well in holland where there is a willingness both on the part of the municipal side of the equation as well as your private sector to make it investment  in the future and in the in the make up of our community obviously you know that investment wouldn't be made if there was a wasn't a pretty good idea that there was going to be a good return on that investment but i think we the other partnership in a local manufacturing company being involved in this and all showcasing you know the best of what this community can do is  brain just when i look back about six years ago when the economy was really going down there wasn't much happening in holland and a lot of other places and yet we knew that the jigsaw the pieces of the puzzle were going to come together and moving it was the power plant washington school being developed and saw the westward part the civic center all of these pieces are starting to come together and wonderful ways and this is a great another step in the vision of holland to move ahead and we are so blessed to have such creative people who believe in this community and step up to take a risk and i think all of them for doing that this is going to be a great thing for how long we are moving ahead and this should be a catalyst for many other people to jump on board with us thank you for doing that  thank you so much and i'm a fifth it was a few years ago there was an engineering party that chuck was hosting at charterhouse and the fledgling engineers were hanging out and what do you do with engineers you talk to them about engineering and then you shop chairs and they were just so intrigued with how they were designing these chairs so carefully and exacting to what people like and then remodelling them by what they preferred and it was just a very long detailed arduous process in serving the customer to the tee and while it is that pay off and you really inspired all those engineers that holland does things differently when it goes about anything and so besides having the creativity and drive and just courage to decide to go where no one else has gone you've also inspired another generation of engineers to think about what they could design and how they could be a part of making the world a better place with their gifts and engineering and to involve craftsman and design people besides engineers in putting all of this together with the entertainment industry is just we're just so grateful and to have it all so beautifully designed on that street i mean since i moved here i drove by that street saying what everything so gorgeous and then you go to this and i was like what happened here and didn't anybody notice and what is wrong with that building and then then there'd be a sign up and then that sign would disappear and then something like kind of happened i'm like whoa great there and nothing happened and i kept thinking somebody  do something and i didn't know that underground there was these there were people meeting and thinking and talking and negotiating and eventually they would be having this amazing plan to make that whole area to have an entire block of downtown redesigned and redeveloped at this level of quality by a private investment with only providing parking on the part of the city is unbelievable we're just there's no way to put words to how grateful we are for what this is going to catalyze for the entire western and of downtown and as as you said our march to the waterfront you cannot ignore it anymore we are on the way so that's so so great we can't we're just loving watching each one of these floors go up and all the hard hats and and everything happening and to have all that parking provided by next summer how great is that have four hundred more parking places available by next summer and that end of town is really transformational so thank you so much i please and i like the drama roll call i need clarification this is for items twelve four point five correct yes thank you lynn yes right me issue bonds for that and i think tim you cover the bat do we need more presentation and that is everybody understand that we have a motion if you understand it reproof moved by peter yes you're divorced yes motion passed unanimously thank you and thank you sir thanks for coming in tonight moving on to management administrative services gifts and i could you please tell us about those the city managers office is pleased to report the bowing gives community human relations in its fifth year for the hauen youth connection graham received various gifts i will start  the alliance for cultural and ethnic harmony and an anonymous donor in the a moment to ten thousand richard and alice camerata global concepts enterprises lake michigan credit between one hundred fifty dollars to ten thousand dollars public safety services public police operations received from the hound police officers association eighty four dollars and seventy cents public safety services for police operations for the ice cream truck freeze and supplies program received donations from helen collision also known as adi by the experts of holland in the amount of fifteen hundred american taliban in the amount of five hundred in crown motors in the amount of two thousand eight hundred dollars digraph nature center adopt an animal program for the received a donation received donations from january one to january thirty of this year in the amount of two hundred nineteen dollars and the cell per program received donations from city employees from the time frame of january one through january thirty in the amount of three hundred eighty dollars it is recommended that these donations be accepted was appreciation in an expression of gratitude be forwarded to said thank you hannah motion  services for its nature work for its recreation for children a wonderful list stuff people that care about making this an even better place and helping people at whatever stage they're in in their lives donations go along with what we start of the summers call the operation polar patrol hopefully most of you are already heard of that you're not hearing something new because it has been out there but what that is is we've got several generous donors throughout the community that have given want to time a bunch of money a bunch of products to us for us to go out in the bill partnerships in the lation ships with their kids and also adults couples live there on that we started this program june seventh of this year since june seventh we've been at thirteen different events already in the month of june and we have about sixteen more that are already scheduled so anybody out there that has any events that they want us to participate in bring the we referred to an ice cream truck that we should refer to as frozen treat truck because we have all kinds of frozen tree glued in trees including frozen yogurt as well we've handed out over twenty five hundred treats already you get ahold of my e mail or phone number we glad to schedule you and if we don't already have one schedule for that day however we've we've got a little three on one day so we can make some arrangements where we've got three events and one day so that's really been a cool project we're we're very very thankful for this community that's why but i went after some of these yes because the talk was given in this community we've had a huge outpouring of gifts the generosity has been amazing we the done without our donors this is this the truck that you can see on your screen right now everything involved with the everything the inside of it we've got several freezers the whole way scream all of the ice cream the trees everything has  donated it hasn't cost the city anything get this thing up and running and it's certainly been very valuable and many of us that we've we've been at this summer the second thing i want to talk about real quick is what's called caught being  to speak and they're caught wearing helmets or life jackets while they're out on boats and those kind of things this is actually going to be a necessarily a public safety officer berth firefighters we have these coupons and all of our fire trucks so we're trying to get out there and reward kids for being safe and a couple of items are joining junior police academy this year it starts july seventeenth and we have a record number of kids that are signed up this year so this is really growing we're really thankful for that we have fifty four kids that are currently registered and if you know anybody else anybody the kids that are in seventh or eighth grade please tell me contact us we'd love to get them to come to the police department so they're going to stand a what we do and it's a really it's a great time we have kids that they sometimes show at the first day and are a little reluctant by the end they don't want to leave they're ready to stay for another for another month and probably some of their parents while want to stay for another part of the month as well but this is a poll on starts twenty ninth is from six until nine anybody that's seventeen or older will want to come in this kind of check out what we do how we do it most importantly why we do some of the things that we do with all the media everything out there now some of it can be kind of negative we like to bring people in and really show them what we do why we do how we do it and those kind of things answer any questions they may have to show how transparent we are and our department is obviously our communities department in more than welcome to come  any time for sure our doors are always open and we certainly would like to have anybody come in to say this is a police academy we welcome go to our website or give us a call and we will have you come in on monday nights we can't make every single monday night we understand because a lot have communications from the mayor i just wanted to mention i was connected with a city in the netherlands they emailed us and it's called celine and they are having a big festival starting tomorrow through sunday and they're celebrating the people that i guess they're celebrating the way their people came to the united states that been royalty left to their area with like sixty one people from the little town of  came from there and it was the result of they said that the government was taking over the church and so the government wanted to run the church and the people didn't want that and as this retired pastor described it to me and so then royalty and his group decided they would come to the united states and so they did and that created quite a rift in their church but he said  they have come back together as a church and so they are very excited about being a united church again and they want his liberate what has happened in their bringing people to the united states and they were very grateful to include a statement from us in their brochure that they're handing out and that shows the role tees ship i guess going from one to the other and they also have a statue the same as ours and centennial park that they have as a part of their community to commemorate his coming to the united states so it was very interesting to hear that and i guess mayor mcglynn did travel to this city quite a while ago and met that mayor at that time and they really appreciate continuing the connection with holland michigan and the netherlands  so that was an interesting thing that happened in the last few months also we would like to present a resolution oh you know that's a repeat ok we would like to present a resolution tonight and would probably be the best one to explain that for us thank you madam mayor the resolution as proposed and before you does three things for first off the background as everyone knows says effective june thirty former city manager ryan cotton resigned from his position as city manager and chief at messrs stepped forward to fill in the gap for a very short time to make sure that there wasn't a vacancy in the office of city manager the resolution would then approve a contract with greg robinson to continue in that role as interim city manager chief nasser has a lot of things to do in the department of public safety in this position you know takes up a lot of his time as well and there are two of them so we've talked with greg robinson who recognize the name as being former city manager and former interim city manager former assistant city manager former interim city manager for the city of holland so this referee resolution would approve an employment agreement with him for that position i'll get back to that in just a minute secondly i would appoint him as interim city manager and the third thing would be to terminate the appointment of chief messer effective july ten which is the date that greg robinson wouldn't to space starting as interim city manager the proposed agreement would employ greg robinson on an hourly basis for a term of seven months that's renewable on a thirty day basis thereafter the goal is that during that time period the city will search conduct a search for a permanent replacement a city manager and then that person would take over and greg would would leave his position as interim city manager basically covers thank you and wondering i greg you would be willing to come up to the podium we really appreciate greg and great to see you back in city hall and how we came to meet with you and kind of talked over things and he told us about your good life very good at that your life has been very good and but you're also willing to listen to a request and i wondered if you would want to speak with us a little bit sure so  thank you for this evening and for considering this and certainly the mayor and mike and others who have talked with me about how this might work and i met with you last wednesday also to talk about this so  you know our city attorney mentioned some of the terms or some others as part of this agreement i look forward to working with you to helping you through this period you know the more i've thought about it since this came  up really there's an incredible number of projects you all have before you have in the works fortunately there's a great leadership team others here who are working on all those things and certainly at the same time keeping the services that the day to day services going so there's just a lot underway right now so if i can help i'm certainly willing to do that to look forward to it so monday would be the official date i think there's already been some warm up i can tell you with just a reading some things and paying a lot more attention to them now than what i have for the past couple years but i have a lot to learn but i know just as there's great people around to help me with that so i'm looking forward to if you approve it here tonight it's not everybody has me here probably i guess everybody here has yeah so that's great and to be able to have you as an interim city manager as an experienced interim city manager and as an assistant city manager for how many years we with the city you know i've been in the city manager's office i was there for about twenty five years you know almost yeah you came in has the downtown manager came here as the  downtown manager and then was planning development manager and assistant city manager those have been some pretty successful projects was it was it's been a good career yeah thank you so much really appreciate you coming in tonight and your willingness to do this do we have a motion willing to give casey at the bat poem some time in the summer for city council this will give him an opportunity to practice and be ready for that but there's a particular christmas what were the possibilities and you know just got a chance thought maybe greg would do this we really didn't know what would happen but really appreciate stepping up we know things are very busy for you  and that you're still committing to your obligations at the airport yes but this is really appreciate you stepping up in this time of your experience is really valued right now and that's what we need most in city hall so thank mike from my head as matt and matt you know the other city staff great is going to need help and we know that your you probably have the shortest interim city manager you we appreciate you stepping up to the plate took us through a transition period and that's exactly what greg's going to do now probably get us back to what holland does very well not get any more major projects out of there with as you said we've got enough and give us some time for transition and we're all is going to go in there and our leadership team is going to go in the future so i want to thank both of you and i know there's to be a major role that you're going to be playing in this transition not speaking for greg but like i can just imagine but even for the shortest time thank you very much i know that both of you jim actually for that matter served as interims or acting i should say at that point for ryan when he went on vacation was out of town so we've got a great amount of talent here and we've just added one more here so people you care for them and you have a way of i think in enabling people to do the the best that they can and you have a rather calming effect at city is that we have such a competent gifted group of folks not just in leadership but in the whole organization that we can move forward in sort of spending a lot of attention know looking for you know the next right leader knowing that all of you folks will be paying attention to the stuff that needs paying attention to and moving the projects forward  you for be willing to step up a little bit more joy he said pressures as best we can but we're really grateful way of working with staff and and being a guardian for the city and its development and now your expertise and your kindness and near our gracious person will serve the city so well and we're very very grateful for your willingness to serve us once again greg thank you so much i guess you have to vote to make this official  definitely honed in on public safety but you are our public safety in the world the city manager is there and we know that whenever we ask you to step forward for the city you will do that one hundred percent and that's a huge security but we also realize the busiest time of the year in public safety is summer because people don't always behave when the weather is nice and so we're very grateful for you to be able to be a stopgap person and keep us all intact until next monday and we really appreciate your flexibility and willingness to service in this capacity as well thank you so much matt and  and i know you have been informing everyone in every direction and you will be working as well with greg a lot and all of these things that are in place in the conduit for communication from one group to the next and that is so valuable really appreciate your being the fiber optics of of the management office there thank you very much so do we have any communications from the council members i do believe we resolutions by council members pretty chance when you have something tat you know that you mention it as i mentioned upstairs i'm sorry i have to follow greg up with the conversation pigeons of all  things as i mentioned you know through conversation with some constituents over the weekend just noticing that there's a may potentially opportunity for us to either clean up an existing ordinance or add on to the ordinance however  see to see us give direction to staff to study the idea of competition be accommodated somewhere within our existing ordinances similar to again the backyard chickens or be ordinance wherever that fits and i think ron you would mention that since section four of our ordinance so i would i would i guess what i would put forth is a motion that we send it to staff for study and report based upon the section of ordinance that ron would give guidance two terms of a best fit and that would be part of  question if there was any pending issues going on relating to that were once would be appropriate to have a stay of enforcement during this time period what's being studied or no i think that's what we did the last time with the chickens five remember is that's correct i'm not aware of any enforcement action going on right now with animal issues but in terms of competition agents or other animals but yeah that staff would exercise thank you i guess we'll have that sent to staff for study come back to us at a study session thank you and the other most motions are resolutions from council members easy for me to say i know