well good evening everyone welcome to tonight for us there we go sorry about that ordinarily this is a study session week for us but with the odd schedule with the fourth of july holiday we cancelled last week's meeting and are having last week's meeting tonight so with that please call then brings us to the opening items which we conduct at every meeting which is to first of all begin the meeting with a prayer tonight would which will be led by our colleague mayor pro tem bob end of us he followed immediately by the pledge of allegiance to the flag so if you would  kindly join us in both of these items god of power and my wisdom and justice creator of all that was is and shall be through you authority is rightly administered laws are enacted in judgment as to creed sist with your spirit of wisdom and strength this city council and all of our city employees grant that we may always seek the ways of righteousness justice and mercy and that we may be enabled by your influence to lead our city and serve our citizens with honesty and integrity for the common good of all we ask this in your name amen i pledge lead us to the flag of the united states of america to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for a thank you bob book of common prayer i'm no sort of sound that way all right then that takes us to item four tonight which is our consent agenda there are copies of this evening's agenda paper copies in the rack in the rear of the room additionally for those who are either in chambers with an electronic device or following along at home you can go to the city's website city of holland dot com go to the calendar page go to today's date and you can find all the materials not just the agenda but the background materials councils reviewed in preparation for this evening's meeting as well so i invite you to do so and if you're in chambers you can grab a paper copy of the agenda you'll note on the agenda that there are a variety of items that have an asterix next to them and these are what we have indicated as the consent agenda items regardless of where they show up on the engine agenda our intent is to handle them with one motion and one vote collectively because we believe that they're relatively routine and that they've previously been or they've been previously discussed by counsel now just because we think that they may be retained doesn't necessarily mean that folks in the room think that their routine so what we will do is have our clerk read for us what is presently on tonight's consent agenda then i'll give an opportunity for anyone in the audience to take an item by number and remove it and we'll take it in its order where members of council can remove one or more items from consent as well clear as mud we'll work through it and see how it goes and please read for us what is presently on the consent agenda thank you item five to approve the minutes of the june five twelve twenty six close meet close june nineteenth regular meeting and june twenty sixth two thousand and thirteen study in special meetings item eleven eight to accept and file executed oaths of office item eleven be to accept for study and report a p a one ninety eight tax abatement application for trans matic located at three hundred east street item fourteen a one to approve the updates of tables up job classifications for various how and board of public work employees effective july one two thousand and thirteen with the rates and schedules as filed fourteen b one to accept as information communications received and reviewed at the july twenty four to be reviewed at the july twenty four study session in regards to the formally proposed amendment to ordinance section four dash three section c in regards to honeybees fourteen c one t approve the revised job description of the director of public safety services as amended by the city attorney's office to include the language any duties performed by officers including but not limited to invest in criminal  arresting individuals item fourteen do you want to read for a claim filed against the city to the city's insurance carrier in city attorney for consideration item fourteen d two to approve the metro permit five year extension agreement for  requested through december thirty one two thousand and eighteen and that the city manager signed the agreement on behalf of the city item fourteen d three to adopt a resolution to publish notice regarding delinquent and non operating utility invoices which remain unpaid three months prior to july one two thousand and thirteen and to be placed on the two thousand and thirteen thirteen winter tax roll item d four to approve a class c liquor license transfer and ownership for el rancho mexican grill and bar to be located at seven seventy sixteenth street suite item fourteen d five to accept as information the passage of house bill forty one seventy one ph fifty one regarding the elimination of local board of canvassers and to recognize the local board of canvassers for their service provided to the city for all previous local elections item fourteen point one to approve a purchase of eight l three flashback in camera systems for the police division that the purchase be funded through the technology services budget in the amount of thirty seven thousand one hundred fifty five dollars plus installation cost of two thousand dollars item fourteen eat three point two two approve the purchase of two cannon multifunction printers in the amount of fourteen thousand eight hundred seventy six dollars and that these purchases be funded through the technology services budget item fortini five point two two approve the snyder electric proposal in the not to exceed amount of one thousand six hundred dollars for the preparation of stage one work of the building energy performance labeling task force funded through the municipal capital improvement fun i am five point three to affirm the appointment of a shop cried oh as a human resources director by virtue of the city managers consent request and item fourteen five point four to approve the appointments of spring sweet handle all of these items collectively would anyone from the audience care to take one of these items off of the consent agenda for this evening so hypothetically if some want to talk about the honeybee issue this would be the time to take it off of consent know this would not be the time but but you need to take it off of the consent agenda in order for it wise we're going to act on it it's going to be done for the evening so that means that the one fourteen b one will be taken off from put and it's norden ordinary spot and what else care to remove an item yes please no no what we're doing is we're this is the consent agenda meaning all these items get a lump together voted on right now all collectively if if it's taken off it's put back in its ordinary spot on the agenda to be separately addressed at that particular point ok anyone else want to remove anything from consent seeing none i would like a motion peters yes birch yes and about yes whiteman yes extra yes yes meir dagan yes motion passes all right thank you takes us then down to item number ten which is adoption of ordinances section thirty nine dash one ninety eight of the zoning ordinance regarding residential infill regulations and we turn to the director of community neighborhood services bill meyer phil thank you mayor this is really a pretty simple amendment before council tonight it's a recommendation from the planning commission to add a section two thirty nine one ninety eight which is the infill ordinance residential in full ordinance council should remember month or two ago approving some changes to the residential the traditional residential neighborhood zone district that dealt with corner lots lawak some greater flexibility for building additions and garages on those corner lots part of the requirements of the sections that were approved at that time included a referral to the infill review for any such additions on additions or new construction on corner lots this is really an amendment that's catching up with those amendments this is a recommendation to add redo the language a paragraph here to the n f l requirements just designating that these types of properties are required just so that there's maybe a little more transparency a little easier to find this in the ordinance if you're looking at different sections this would be number six under thirty nine one ninety eight b six any new accessory building or addition to an existing principal building located on a corner lot in the r t r and traditional residential neighborhood district and that is a list of those that are subject to review under the ordinance thank you phil any questions for staff seeing none as this is an adoption of an ordinance that requires a public hearing so on this particular item if anyone from the audience would care to address this item i would invite you to step forward to the microphone and  state your name and residential address for the record and you we have up to five minutes to address counsel on this item the public hearing is open ok seeing and no one i will close the public hearing and the recommendation to unanimous recommendation from the planning commission is to adopt this ordinance amendment is there a motion please move by peter's support supported otherwise appear on tonight's agenda so if the item you want to talk about is already on the agenda hold tight on that and we'll take it up at that particular point otherwise if someone wishes to address council on something other than an agenda item here's your chance to do so all right seeing no one we will then move on from item thirteen reports from special committees tonight we have a report from the compensation committee regarding the proposed payment for the mayor and members of the city council and i see the chairperson of that committee in the audience tonight mr nathan box attorney nathan vox good evening nathan and welcome to the chambers tonight good evening mr mayor i do have very short report from the compensation commission believe you received a copy of our report our recommendation in your packets we did meet twenty fourth and after looking at previous compensation previous decisions that we had made as well as compensation for communities that are similar in size to how in michigan as the recommendation of the compensation commission that there be a two point four percent increase in the mayor's annual compensation as well as a two point four percent increase in the council members compensation i believe the  specific numbers are there in your package as well we feel that you've all been doing a wonderful job for you we gave you a pay cut two years ago and we'd like to make up for that just a little bit if we could and i'm willing to answer whatever questions you have but there's really not a whole lot else that of information we have for you all right thank you is there are other questions for mr box  so you know all right thank you thank you so much all right now i'm pretty sure this is one of those quirky ones that it takes effect unless we do something to it right or you reject rejected it takes effect there is no motion right unless someone wishes to make a motion to reject and just  the recommendation from the compensation commission would anyone care to address the item please give me that mike your motion if you'd like to address it sure i appreciate the offer i appreciate the good words i don't do it for the money i don't believe on my years of council i've ever voted for a raise in fact the last time we got a raise the money was donated back  so times are better we're still asking your employees to do an awful lot two point four percent on our little thing is a couple three hundred bucks not not that big a deal to me it's more symbolic i'm going to walk the walk that i've been doing so i will be voting this is going to be funny i'm going to be voting affirmative to reject bit ironic i think well personally on the one hand i i resonate with what mike is saying i don't think there's anyone on city here that really got into this gay group the money and we still don't do it because of that but the other half of the equation for me i guess it goes to form and function according to the way that we do things there is a group that is purposely set up to a separate group that's purposely set up to look and determine what compensation this group should receive  and as much as i i would on the one hand would agree with mike that you know we don't necessarily need the the increase it's a really quite i won't see  the what the compensation committee what their purpose is and what their efforts have been in this exercise and that may seem contradictory in some ways but if we do nothing and we accept this increase as individuals we do have the the option to do as mike suggested to return it to the community and various forms so i'm going to vote no to in order to if affirm or do nothing or except this in a way of affirming what this what this group has done and the effort that they've put in and to give justice to their discernment process and then it's up to us as individuals to to decide what to do with that so that's my position right anyone else just real quickly clump our lives i agree with m know this is something that's an honor to do for the city to give back kind of time everybody has got to oh sorry my i'm bringing my closer to closer everybody i think got something the mail this week  was a pretty event with a tax bill and we have an increase of electrical utility rates we have as we have a country where twenty five percent of kids live in poverty we have people living from paper paycheck to paycheck we have people who are underemployed or unemployed and they're really still working hard to make ends meet and i feel for that and this is well senior citizens who are trying to make their payments and  i just feel it's going to be a little token that i can give back to this community into this people who have been kind to me and so i'm would like to reject this and no one else ago the decision was to cut our pay there to cut the thing by ten percent and we didn't vote on her we chose to take that gladly because of the situation that we're all in you know for a body listening who doesn't know what  what kind of pay we're talking on i'm on here i think i get a check at the end of the month for three or four hundred bucks something like that the mayor's i think one hundred twenty thousand dollars compensat but i think we're only if you do the job for a decade he's worth i think there's someone to be said about outsiders taking a good look at this and i don't think that  maybe there's no one sitting up there here right now that's doing it that perhaps is that three or four hundred bucks a month is a make or break deal but i'd hate to think that there's somebody out there who wants to sit back here some day who wants to run and maybe that would make a difference too and i wouldn't want to have that be a factor i mean that nobody's here for the money but maybe someday it'll help somebody just a little bit decide to run i don't know but i want to respect the work that nathan and his group get i'll be voting no thank you alright anyone else ok we clear yes me run place i just want to point out in terms of the vote majority required to pass the motion it's a two thirds vote by council to pass the roberts and his rules ok anyone have anything else they'd like to say or are we clear as to what we're going to be voting on to vote in favor of the motion to reject is a yes vote to  sentially side with the compensation committee is a no vote mr mayor one thing here right now he said break up your last day here but i would say mr box is probably very familiar with the yes for no and no for yes as a member of zoning board of appeals where sometimes so the only one not laughing in the room is mr box who sat in these chairs on our behalf and made the yes for no a no for yes i thought would be fun point that out writes the motion fails the motion fails all right thank you mr brock's and we will express our appreciation as well to the members of the committee so thank you all right continuing on then we moved down to the item which was removed from the consent agenda which is item fourteen b one communication from the planning commission regarding potential proposed amendments to section or ordinance section four dash three subse regarding honeybees phillis still here self fill maybe the briefest of introductions on this particular item because even a council passes this matter tonight essentially will be looking at this issue at a study session coming up later in the month and we can talk about that as well sure this is a communication from the planning commission following their review of the issue of modifying our ordinances to allow honeybees in residential zone this is an issue that came to city council through a communications from the audience back in march individual living on maple avenue had gone through an experience where he had had to remove his his hives from his property because our ordinances currently do not allow the keeping of honeybees in the residential zones this and went to the planning commission planning commission had quite a bit of discussion about sort of the pros and cons of keeping  honeybees they had a couple of members from the holland area beekeepers association that participated in some of their sessions and provided information about beekeeping planning commission reviewed ordinances from other communities both in michigan and outside of michigan and had quite a bit of discussion about what the possible ordinances might look like there was a proposal made a draft ordinance put together and that was proposed to the planning commission the commission ended up voting two in favor and four opposed to simply not to recommend this to city council so that has come to you as a communication on that matter and there was indication to the planning commission that this would then be picked up at a subsequent study session by city council right so your plan at this point is to have this on the agenda for the study session currently scheduled for july fourth two thousand and four meaning no action would be taken at that particular moment but the council then would have the opportunity to learn more talk more about the potential issue and then if council is of the mind to do so to bring something at a later business meeting like this one to two potentially alter our existing ordinances so tonight all we're doing is receiving this communication from the planning commission and it will be on the study session for the twenty fourth but i know there are some people in the audience who came tonight specifically for this matter so we certainly want to invite you to make comment if you'd like the rules  are relatively simple we just require you come to the microphone so folks in chambers and at home can hear what you have to say state your name in a residential address for the record and you have up to five minutes to address counsel and rather than having me whisper out to you you've got thirty seconds left we have a green light yellow light red light system so the yellow light comes on at one minute left in the red light means your time is expired so if anyone would like to dress council in this item here's your chance to do so absolutely good evening and welcome my name is sandy brick house i live it to a four west thirteenth two years ago i contracted lyme disease when i was unable to work outside of our home as a result my husband and i found ourselves living on one income i struggled with lyme for about a year and a half but we were able to maintain the basic requirements of daily living as well as maintaining a large vegetable garden i sewed my own curtains mended our clothes preserved our own produce and generally learned to live much more sustainably my husband and i chose not to apply for ongoing state aid but chose instead to do what we could to take care of our own needs where possible way of work with our own hands to supply what is needed for daily living in the course of this time i began to realize that sugar is expensive and so i began my search for a sustainable sweetener this is worse when i first began to research the idea of beekeeping in my research i discovered that beekeeping is not only reasonably safe but it is also vitally important it seems that our country is experiencing a shortage of honeybees which translates to less pollination of our crops and higher prices at the grocery store for my own garden honey ees would mean a greater production of vegetables which you did equals greater sustainability for my husband and i with less reliance on others i will spare the council further details and fast forward to today i am here to ask you to reject the recommendation being handed down to you by the planning commission regarding a local beekeeping ordinance by making this request based on the fact that the decision of the planning commission appeared to be reached more or less on the basis of fear and personal preference than on fact and research the proposal which you will receive today was submitted and voted upon based on arbitrary ideas were rejected solid facts gleaned from knowledgeable professionals i am here to request that the proposal that was presented by the planning commission be rejected and that the city council enact their own study based on input from area experts in the area beekeeping including don l president of air holland area beekeepers and the beekeepers and grand valley state university's holland campus in defense of mark vander palooka the planning commission i would like to say that it appeared that he worked very hard to base his recommendations regarding beekeeping on fact rather than personal sentiment i would therefore like to urge the council to include him in short future discussions regarding changes to the ordinance as his input may greatly reduce the work thank you very much and if you would like and i'm sure we don't have to but if you'd like to give your notes to the clerk we can enter them formally into the record but certainly your comments will be noted that it doesn't work well either way if you'd like you may do so but there's certainly no requirement to do so thank you very much the microphone is open still if anyone else would like to address council on this item be here anyhow just like she said we are also a family that is trying to be to have a little bit more to be more sustainable you know to provide for ourselves and and things like that but the issue here is that there really harmless insects on the twenty fourth i'll definitely come back and give more more info more more input but i mean i cities like new york city are allowing for people to have babies on the rooftops i don't see why we can't do it it would be a lot more beneficial to us too because of the farms and you know all the things that we have around we started a garden this year as well so i think it would be wonderful for our garden and just like she was saying bees are an insect that seems to be kind of you know going extinct at the moment so not only w benefit us would have benefit but it would benefit each and every member of you all all of your families as well i hope you consider this i hope you think about it and on the twenty fourth we'll definitely see each other again ok thank you all right well we made a motion to accept this for information and i would welcome that at this point move by the mayor pro tem supported by weitzman and we will have the scheduled up for the study session on the twenty fourth to have a more informal and more in depth conversation about this particular matter please call the turning into fourteen eat two point one an item related to windmill island gardens ryan mr city manager good evening first you've heard me i think tonight the first i think we've heard from you tonight mr mayor members of the city council this report isn't willing garden specifically that is one windmill in march of two thousand and twelve to repair of the platform the beam broke on the window and fortunately with the help of representatives from the netherlands company over by we were able to piece together what happened and why and did an up top to bottom inspection which led to the need for major repairs on the windmill i think that you are aware of there has been a fund raising effort made significant funds have been secured and a great deal of effort was produced at the leadership by the leadership of jody sciences director of parks recreation transportation department to  make it possible to have the windmill turning again hopefully by the end of this year what you will hear about tonight is the largest step necessary to date in order to make this happen the lumber was ordered the bridge design was done the bridge contractor bid bid was let the right of other design efforts were undertaken and tonight you had before you the result of the bids for the general contractor these bids were liquidated damages which were found to be unnecessary in the case of the bitter who is bowker's we did only receive one bit however we're grateful that this one bidder is very familiar with when they will having been a part of the platform work and has worked with the individuals from the netherlands has a good working relationship and we are comfortable and satisfied that they will be a very very good general contractor so what you have before you is  picture of the window and the beams that they believe it is this beam is is the one that broke which led to the top to bottom inspection and the need to repair significant turning devices underneath the cap as well as repair issues with leaking in the cap of the cap and of course the bridge work is necessary to get the crane to the island in which the work can be done expeditiously by removing the cap and  on the ground so these are some pictures of similar work that was done in poland provided by by and it shows some of the intricacies of the copper roofing i have many friends in case they're watching this is this one mel is of course authentic i like to think of it as the oldest structure in michigan although that needs to be verified by some independent authority so in summary  action tonight would produce the construction management of services needed to roll the whole project under one authority being else in the volkers and get all of the services necessary to effectuate the repairs the next slide here shows the dot dollars associated with all of these repairs totaling six hundred eighty nine thousand dollars i want to say that i'm grateful to jerry science who put these numbers together she of course was very familiar with but she actually pulled them together two days after she retired and so we're grateful for those that donation if you will of her time to make sure that we got off on the right foot here the next slide is one that i put together based on charities numbers which adds a ten percent contingency factor for a total potential cost of seven hundred sixty dollars sixty thousand dollars and then backs into how the costs will be covered i think you can see that  the largest two the largest figures are ones that you have heard about to one extent or another fund raising donations and challenge grants is a large effort under taken by mary dykstra fundraiser nordstrom and a variety of individuals who are very believe deeply in this project and there's been two hundred thousand dollars in challenge grants that have been pledged to date as well as as of last week seventy five thousand dollars in na well that totals two hundred seventy five thousand i learned today to inveigle a that we also have twenty thousand dollars that has come in so the actual total is is north of that number we have more than that in fundraising and expected so we pretty confident with that number the last number three hundred seventy five thousand dollars is based on and expect to expected grant it is under way and we hope to have written on within the next two months and the top number eighty eight thousand dollars those are funds that are already spent that were part of the total cost of the prior slide so that leaves a plug number if you will of twenty five thousand expected from what we term the cities like to see funds these are funds that rim asked through sale of property in recent years that were preserved in one spot for purposes such as this so  twenty five thousand dollar number would be necessary it may go down depending on the success of the fund raising it may go up depending on the if any fund raising doesn't if any pledges don't come through but we don't expect that to happen so that's how the project will be paid for it gets started in earnest in september some work and august in earnest in september and hopefully will be turning again by the end of the year so the recommendation is to approve the contract with subject to refuse to form by the city attorney's office with funding produce provided by the president ations and grants in the city's like a c funds as well as the prior funding that you are already approved from the mystical capital improvement fund let me double check to make sure i covered  also subject to the mayor and the clerk being authorized to execute the documents all right thank you brian any questions for staff on this item ok motion please mov moved by to bork support supported by any conversation nancy please that that is a huge and glorious list of numbers that came through a lot of concerted effort and i know that bill johnson has been involved and of course mayor dykstra time and time again and and ryan and all kinds of people it's so exciting to see people come together to solve a problem that was impossible to solve we didn't have the money and we had a broken window and it's so great when people step forward and realize the value of this legacy of the structure that we were we've been entrusted with and as a community that we can come together starting with the high school kids and their run of the mill and their auction and all the other people that have worked so hard to make these other efforts happen that so many people have stepped forward to say yeah you know i can do it i can donate a small amount i can donate a larger amount and i'd like to donate to encourage other people to donate with a matching fund amount and that that is really exciting and i really appreciate the mayor's efforts on the state level as well to think beyond our geographic boundaries to what icon is for the state of michigan it really does put michigan on the map as well and it is what everybody thinks of when they think of holland that we have this two hundred and which is a fifty four year old structure  is an amazing gift from the netherlands and something that it we have come together to make it to keep it in shape and and to honor it and so hopefully people recognize that and continue to give an order to make this go the whole the whole distance but this is an amazing beginning and as the wood is coming over from the netherlands where ready thank you nancy other comments yes one please yeah real quickly this has been a very interesting time and i just want to thank all the people who have worked really really hard on this particular thing and i you know i  really sweat a lot on this when i think back and forth and it's really reassuring to see that these funds i'd really like to see them in the bank you know we know that we haven't for sure but i think from what i've what i understand and what i've heard here is that these are solid funds that we should feel good about them i did not want to see a spend all of our legacy funds on that there are many other projects in the future that are that we want to look at but i think this is a realistic approach to things and we'll support those it's going to be really exciting to see this and if you're thinking about donating this is the time you've been sitting on the fence it's time to get off the fence and support us if you are feeling in that directions great job everyone for doing anyone else yes top place i'll just echo a little bit of that i had reservations myself this is as exciting i think it's appropriate much like all of us i think you know kind of going where where's this going to come from as you know fall from heaven or the skies like mann a and it seems to be that way in the early going here and so very excited for it i know there's a deep history there that probably the mayor and the mayor pro tem have as much freedom village activities and that is where some of the challenge granting is also coming from and that's a very good thing we have received a variety of donations from near and from far and one of the very large donations as noted to you know we want to mention that that is one that has come in from a partner not well for funds located outside the community so that is excellent news as well but the effort is not is not finished and i've got i don't know if this will show up on the screens or not but if you go to the city's web site and i have it screens in the chambers i don't know if it's showing up at home but if you go to the city's web site right very close on the right hand side is the entire campaign information about not just the window but the entirety of the gardens and it is a project that is much larger than just the wouldn't allow itself the windmill piece certainly is a major component of it and sort of the driving force behind the reimagining of what the island can look like but it's not the entirety of the piece so that is why as council member clum parents indicated this is not the end and if if you are interested in donating there is still lots of opportunity to do so with some of the path issues and access issues and other kinds of improvements that are planned under this proposal and if you go to the city's web page you can learn more about what is being proposed for the entirety of the island and opportunities to do some some funding and gifting in that particular place as well one just bit of clarification i know the city manager didn't intend and and maybe i'm being overly sensitive but the beam did not break because of the work being done on the deck it just was in some ways fortuitous as the deck work was being done as we had experts in the city from the netherlands who knew when mail things is when the beam happened to break at the windmills close to two hundred fifty years old i guess these things break down over time and so it is it will be a wonderful project to see at the windmill done to see it turn and really would love to have the entirety of the project completed by windmill island gardens fiftieth anniversary in twenty fifteen so the access pieces the new sidewalks paths bridges to the north of the restoration of the organ the restoration of the carousel the restoration of the windmill itself all done by twenty fifteen so we can throw a grand fiftieth birthday party of the swans presents and when will island's presence in the holland community with that please call the roll an yes motion passes thank you then we go to fortini five point one some gifts please the city managers office is pleased to report following gifts donations of a box of pickles valued at twenty four dollars and forty five cents has been received from  j heinz twenty dollars was also received from and am cotton in support of the hauen news connection program parks and recreation and transportation department reports received were from two hundred dollars from john flower plan thousands one thousand dollars from johnson controls blue sky inc for trail improvement work at the geographic nature center by thousand dollars from melinda hybrid in memory of eric khyber to support environmental education programs at the graphic nature center five hundred dollars was received from the house and board of public works to support the two thousand and thirteen how and in bloom contest one thousand dollars was received from philip miller to support planning efforts for the vendor altie farmhouse in barns project and a total amount of one hundred thirty seven dollars was received in support of the south scholarship through the recreations office from  please actually all in favor please say i post the same that passes thank you let's take this down to item fifteen communications from the city manager this evening i only have one tonight want to talk about the construction  washington avenue it will continue of course the intersection was opened i think you're aware and the pavement milling will begin next so what you see is utility work across longitudinally the pavement milling make it quite a bit rougher base repairs will follow that two way traffic however will be maintained the entire time the schedule completion date is august thirtieth and the project is on schedule so we want to thank our engine ear and ben for working with the contractor as well as our interne who's assisting them in what is i got to tell you one of the smoothest projects i've been involved in so want to thank the community for their patience  well right thank you i'll echo those sentiments and continue to give my general advice over the summer if you can avoid that part of the city probably a good idea to do so it is a it is a mess it's gone very  smoothly but it's still a major construction project and we can at least look forward to in a few months having it completed and having it very well completed so that will be good communications from me this evening only a couple of items one is our usual one that you can find information about the city about us about how to contact us what we're doing as far as meetings go schedules forms permits all sorts of things on the city's website city of holland dot com and we certainly look forward to and appreciate communications we get from members of the public quite often and quite frankly we do not have a lot of communication on most issues that come before council so we do appreciate hearing from members of the community so that we know what is on your mind and how you believe things ought to happen here also of course we just celebrated the fourth of july and i would say it was a very successful fourth of july celebration fireworks display was excellent and ought to be reminded that the the holland community fireworks display is a cooperative effort of most of the local units of government in the greater holland area all the members of the makah tau area coordinating council contribute based on population size and we pool those resources together to have one magnificent display and again it was wonderful this year collin park was full i suspect denton park on the north side was also full and lots of other places as well were filled with people witnessing fireworks fireworks ordinance the amendments that we passed a couple of weeks ago are now in effect and keep in mind that aside from the federal holiday period of time i e the fourth of july holiday for example the day before the day after fireworks that shoot off the ground are not permitted in the city of holland again go to the city's web page right in the front page you'll find some from ation about how the ordinance regulating fireworks works in the city of holland we have some interesting projects underway across the city on some of our younger community members youth members with the i challenge you program it's run through the intermediate school district and we have a team of those persons here in city hall working on a project that sort of a collaboration planning project between the city and the public school  system and i can tell you that everybody who has interacted with them has been duly impressed with the degree of creativity maturity and insight that these students bring to the project and they will be competing over the next couple of weeks with other student team members working at other institutions in the greater holland community to see which one of them judges selected as the kind of the best project planning exercise among all of them so congratulations to those students that is my list for the evening go to the and web page go to the calendar page you'll see lots of information about friday concert series in the park saturday farmer's market and special events all throughout the summer here in holland anyone else have communications this evening park parties and the p c r is pleased to help co sponsor a couple park parties that are coming up in fact one is tomorrow evening thursday july eleventh from five thirty to seven thirty rosa park green that is on college avenue between one thousand the twentieth and then we will do a repeat performance on tuesday the twenty third of july same time frame brother birches area five thirty to seven thirty there will be food will be games there will be prizes there will be music hope to see everybody out there it's always a great time good time to know get to know your neighbors a couple of advance things here a national light out of college park will be on the sixth of august this year and don't forget the labor day trucker it watch your tongue i mean it's only the middle of summer mike you're talking labor day already goodness sakes and you can never be too far ahead agrees that good point boardwalk sponsored by the city which starts over by the heinz plant and goes all the way to gorgeous windmill island gardens where you can hug his wine and have pancakes in the pavilion it's an awesome time to be with family and friends and enjoy the whole connectivity of that wonderful boardwalk system and the water that is in holland excellent anyone else we do have a couple of or one appointment one  resignation reappointment tonight putting before you the replacement of john had a shot to the second term on the board of appeals which has an expiration date of june one thousand and sixteen and also to regretfully and appreciatively accept the resignation of david from the h r c he has been on the h r c board since twenty zero five and has done a fantastic job and i know has an interest to continue serving on a board commission and we're still figuring out the right spot to have david join again because pass anyone else have anything else tonight motions resolutions or anything else seeing none that leaves us with one item and that is to adjourn as their motions move but with supported by peter's all in favor say  the same we stand adjourned evening everyone and will be back next week wednesday for our regular meeting which happens on the third wednesday of july good evening