our colleague council member david hoekstra and after that we'll do the pledge of allegiance we would ask that you would stand in join us if you  snow for a time to be with family and friends for the life you give us we're going to do work to accomplish goals and to make life better for each other with thankful to for those who work on our behalf i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic of which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you dave now will go on with the consent agenda and i will read a whole list of items that are on your agenda and at the end of that we will ask to see whether you have come here to speak about one of those items you have then we will remove that item from the consent agenda and will handle it in its sequence as it appears so in a could you please let us know what is on the consent agenda item four b to approve the minutes of the regular meeting held july fifth two thousand and seventeen for c to accept and fire executed most of office from various boards and commissions item ten a to postpone second reading and adoption of the broadband ordinance to august second two thousand seventeen and adopt the resolution to schedule a public hearing on the how on board of public works updated broadband business plan for august second two thousand and seventeen at seven pm and that the deputy city clerk publish notice of the hearing twelve a one to approve the purchase and sale agreement was c reese coal company for up to fifteen thousand tonnes of coal at a price equal to or greater than twenty three dollars per tonne authorized mayor and deputy clerk to sign an a general manager to solve remaining coal inventory as stated in report item from twelve two to adopt a resolution authorizing the mayor and deputy clerk to sign contracts that are approved by the how on board of public works board and are within the fiscal year eighteen budget guidelines item twelve eight to adopt a joint resolution between the hound board of public works and city to appropriate six million two hundred ninety six thousand and sixteen from the electric utility funds for fiscal year two thousand and eighteen for the general purposes of the city of holland item twelve a forward to approve an agreement with ryan incorporated central in the amount of three million five hundred fifteen thousand eight hundred ninety one for the colon ash pan closure project twelve a five to approve a contract with plumbers environmental services inc in the amount of one hundred thousand six hundred ninety four and the contract was mana form l o l c in the amount of one hundred fifty thousand one hundred sixty for a variety of manholes the sanitary collection system rehab and to approve a ten percent contingency in the amount of twenty five thousand eight hundred ninety five dollars associated with said contracts pending approval asked a firm by the city attorney and authorized the mayor and deputy clerk to sign such agreements twelve a six to approve the purchase with m tech company in the amount of ninety one thousand three hundred seventy four dollars and fifty nine cents of which one hundred  i thousand eight hundred seventy seven is a quote in price with the trade in credit in the amount of seventeen thousand five hundred dollars for the replacement of sanitary sewer camera equipment in the television televising van for the public works twelve eighty eight to approve the fiscal year two thousand me thousands salary structure for the b m in b p for the hauen board of public work employees by two point two percent retroactive to july one two thousand and seventeen authorized the general manager to award non base non base wage compensation of up to two point two percent to employees who remained redlined under current structure item twelve c one to adopt as recommended by the city attorney and the holland border public works board of directors irresolution of the city of council appointing the general manager in finance director as appointive officers pursuant to section three point purchase agreement item twelve one point three to accept an easement and remit from the outdoor discovery center in the amount of one thousand five hundred fifteen dollars for roadway and drainage purposes associated was a michigan department of transportation project for the relocation of a portion of sixty four st at at the m forty subject to approval less to form by the city attorney with funds provided by the fiscal year eighteenth street improvement fund authorize item twelve eat two point one to schedule a public hearing to obtain citizen comment on the annual action plan in the proposed use for fiscal year two thousand and seventeen community development block grant entitlement funds to the regular city council meeting scheduled for wednesday august second two thousand and seventeen at city hall to seventy cells river item twelve easy to point to to approve the hire of the substate substation noble research group to provide consulting services of the city's solid waste in recycling program with the cost to be allocated from the solid waste recycling fund pending city attorney approval item twelve efore point want to schedule a public hearing for  thousand and seventeen to consider a twelve year p a one ninety eight industrial facilities tax abatement for a trigram steel components inc located at fourteen forty eight lincoln avenue and instructed deputy clerk to publish meal notice of same item twelve efore point two two accept the bid with unix at a cost of seventy five thousand nine hundred dollars for the purchase of two up in flour bulbs with the cost to be allocated between the windmill island gardens parks and recreation budget and that the tulip time reimburse the city in the amount of one thousand six hundred forty two dollars and fifty cent of its cost before point three to approve the bid of j k b construction inc in the amount of one hundred sixty one thousand eight hundred eleven for the digraph nature center improvements authorize a mere deputy clerk to execute in agreement with cost to be allocated from the specified donations fund and legacy funds subject to resolution item twelve east six point two to approve the residential sidewalk variance requests for two eighty three to eighty five to eighty nine in two ninety one to ninety one in two ninety seven east nine hundred street only as it pertains to multiple housing construction with the understanding that this variance is temporary in nature it would not preclude any future requirements for sidewalk variance item twenty six point three to approve a sub recipient agreement was lakeshore advantage for fiscal year two thousand and eighteen to include economic development services for the city in the amount of fifty thousand authorized the mayor and deputy clerk to sign an agreement to be funded through the fiscal year two thousand e economic development assistance budget subject to approval last a form by the city attorney i am twelve he six point four to approve the reappointment of spring sweet and sharing beer tice to the downtown development authority board term expiring on june thirtieth to twenty twenty one and i am twelve e's six point six two adopt a resolution to approve the merced service credit purchase as requested by captain robert a thank you ana so perhaps you came here this evening because you wanted to talk one of the about one of those items we will as a council consider all of them as a package to vote on in just a minute but if you would like one of those items taken off so that you can address counsel on handling it as it appears on your agenda where more than willing to do that just step forward to the podium give us your name and address and tell us which item you would like pulled out of that consent genda that seeing any we will close that opportunity and move to counsel does anyone on council want to pull any item off the consent agenda not seeing any do we have a motion to approve the consent agenda as read motion to whatever they would like may as long as it's not something we're going to handle later in the agenda just come to the podium give us your name and address in you are free to speak for five minutes the green light means go the yellow light means one minute left and the red light means your five minutes are up is there anyone who would like to come forward water festival this year the mecca to have a water festival there are some things on the screen and i do have just a real brief report you'll get a longer report later we had over four thousand this year twenty five percent more than we had the for the last year and a lot more than we had the first year this is the third year when mel island and the festival was actually started in two thousand and three twenty four participating partners we had there three universities and i think something to note was we had a lot of people from other states as far south as florida new york they're all up on the screen and we had many people from china france  we took a survey walking in dubai so there were a lot of people that have come to holland maybe not for the water festival but they came there are other slides so if you want to go through it just gives you a few things we had tents set up the weather cooperated the next slide and you can see where we had a lot of experiments it's an educational arm of our project clarity goals we want to educate the community on water quality issues as well as this year ecosystem health and that is up cycling recycling and composting and you see we had the kayaking very popular if you go on one more you can also see we had fishing which was very popular biking and i believe there's one more slide i guess that one didn't show up as well but we had a very good time with the four thousand people that did come my colleague would like to talk just a bit about some other exciting things that are happening to connect windmill island with a part of the community so just to give you a brief update we've been to study sessions in the past month or so we're continuing to of the other features around there we're continuing to work with the board of public works and barn malou on getting the east side of the railroad track put in a pedestrian connection there we're continuing to pursue the pedestrian tunnel underneath t s x line and we'll continue to keep you guys all informed as to progress or we can learn you're also working with the grants that we're going to go north and south and now we're trying to east in last right correct yeah you know we really appreciate your partnership with that is so exciting coming to the island and so many people from having aware i'm sure that before you had that festival of a great percentage of those people had not been to windmill island gardens unless somebody in their family got married right away yeah so that is just amazing exposure for our community and what a great topic and way to inspire him and that huge kayak thing you had that you can take twelve to fifteen people is that i do a county parks has voyager canoe it's a twelve place and it's called the god and i have to mention that we had a lot of partners and sponsors myer is our largest sponsor and this sheet there are too many to mention today but we could not do it with out the all the sponsors partners that we had are putting that out and they put a lot of work into it and we start now next year july fourteenth put it on your calendar great thank you so much we just appreciate you being willing to come in on wednesday right after doing that all day saturday and thank you very much for telling the story of these yeah wonderful thank you thank you cough so i wanted to stop by introduce myself pass out my business cards which have my cell phone contact information one of my main responsibilities is attending township village council meetings city council meetings meeting with constituents working on a lot of grant projects any kind of collaboration or argumentation you need to do with the state department maybe the  q so please feel free to give me a call if you have any concerns i work with greg for a long time on the airport so we have a good working relationship and i'll pass these out and please feel free comments will close that section then well i'm sorry i looked down just as you stood up i guess i'm down hello hello my name is donovan gomes i came here well i travel to holland from saginaw michigan to come down here to work the city of holland i really have nothing but positive com i would definitely do more research into that and come back on your i do have a question what is or how would you ok so this is all located on your website correct right ok yeah because i have like literally no idea half the words that are on here but i was very willing to do some more research into that and come back  following meeting with the educated response thanks thanks danny appreciate your interest in what goes on and appreciate your feedback about the city and are glad that you feel welcome we appreciate your feedback thank you for taking the time to come in thank you any one else i will now look down ok we're close the public comments and we're moving on to reports from special committees we have the cap and station dangle that out they're going to get out there for so so thank you for moving it out of that if you know no there's a road race taking place right outside and i hit it three times on my way here today so people are moving great they're having a great time out there but  i'm here representing the the compensation commission we need biannually which i'm sure that you are aware we met this year on june sixth june two thousand and six and the first thing that we did at that meeting was took a look at a decision that we made two years may recall that prior to two thousand and fifteen all of you were compensated on a salary plus a stipend per meeting system it was recommended by city staff that perhaps we might want to look at a salary only system  there is a whole lot of recordkeeping that the city was having to do in order to keep track of all of your activities so we decided two thousand and fifteen to move to a simpler straight salary system and the compensation that we put in place two years ago was twelve thousand dollars per year for the mayor paid in a monthly instalment of one thousand dollars a month and then city council members were being have been paid six thousand dollars per year paid at a monthly rate of five hundred dollars per month one of the things that we did at the meeting was look to see whether there had been any appreciable change in your attendance at meetings over the course the last two years because you had been encouraged to attend meetings based on that stipend system and congratulations there was no appreciable change in your attendance and meetings so apparently you were not greatly motivated by the fact that you were going to make a few extra dollars for attending a meeting i knew this was likely to happen already because i know based on what it is that you're compensated and that i know most of you  that you're not here for the money you're here for the service and so we decided that it probably made sense to keep the salary only system moving forward it was it's just easier for city staff to deal with and it's not making any effect in terms of what you you all are doing the next thing that we looked at was the relative compensation between the city council members the mayor and the mayor pro tem president position to see whether it really made sense to have first of all the mayor making twice as much as the city council members or being being paid and also whether it made sense for the mayor pro tem position to be paid exactly the same as a city council member position the  terminations made by the committee that we did think that the relative workload even though we think all of you are underpaid we did think that the relative workload seemed appropriate based on the relative responsibilities that each one of you have we know that you are all attending way more functions than you are required to do you're putting in way more time than you were required to do but we looked at the required responsibilities of council members and mayors and thought that that was was probably appropriate the two times for the mayor but then when we looked at the at the pro tem position we said you know what the pro town mayor pro tem actually has more responsibilities than a council member does they have to sit in when the mayor is not here there is time that they have to put in and doing things like signing documents when the mayor is not here as well they may be attending functions in the place of the mayor and so we saw that there was a real responsibility that the mayor pro tem had that other council members did not have we didn't look at you in particular mr truly we looked at the position itself we do think you're doing a great job but we weren't looking at you we were looking at the position and i wanted to make that clear from the commission that this was not anything that had anything to do with any particular council member it was just the position that we were looking at and so what we decided was that it made sense for pro tem to have a slightly larger salary than a council member does and so our recommendation is going to be to increase the mayor pro tem salary by ten percent so would be ten percent larger than the city council members would be and then the last thing we looked at is did we think it was appropriate to recommend a raise for all of you and we do we looked at what the economic environment is we looked at what other relative one of the communities of similar size and council members  mayors with similar responsibilities were being paid and we think that it makes sense and is warranted to recommend a raise for all of you and so the recommendation of the compensation commission is really is three fold one is to maintain the the simpler salary only system to increase the mayor pro tem salary by ten percent and to increase all salaries by two percent and so as i said that prior to this year the mayor sorry was twelve thousand dollars per year mayor pro tem salary was six thousand dollars per year and city council member salaries were six thousand dollars per year with the increases our recommendation is that the mayor's salary be increased to twelve thousand two hundred  forty dollars per year paid an equal monthly installments the mayor pro tem position b six thousand seven hundred twenty dollars per year paid an equal monthly instalments and the city council members salaries be six thousand one hundred twenty dollars per year paid in equal monthly instalments and while i'm i'm sure you're all aware i'm not sure that the members of the audience are aware but the recommendation of the recommendations of the commission are automatically effective unless city council by resolution adopted by two thirds of the members rejects the recommendation so that is that is our recommendation this year i'm happy to answer any questions that anybody has moving now to the city managers report transportation with the approval of the funding agreements with the michigan department of transportation will have ryan white as director of transportation services help us with that thank you brian include the it's a five lane section through here and we would propose to put up a median island there to allow those gates to function  there and then there's some pavement cross section there as well at the fortieth street crossing we're looking at again lights and gates at this crossing in addition to that there's some same time and make some improvements there with regard to storm water these these improvements are basically the genesis of an office of rail safety they go around the state and and look at different railroad crossings and evaluate them on a safety basis they've come up with these improvements to these two intersection or two railroad crossings and you know we certainly recognize the fact that it's go be a safer crossing and also important to point out that there's funds available that are dedicated specifically to railroad crossing upgrades these are  state and federal funds that are going to be utilized to do these improvements so there's no financial contribution required from the city these are all against the federal funds that will be used  to make these improvements so before you tonight the recommendation is to approve the funding application agreements that are closed to do these two upgrades and city clerk to sign those agreements on behalf of the city with the understanding again that all the associated costs will be funding provided by and be happy to answer any questions so they came to us they watch over river crossings and decide where we need something to ensure better safety yes this is none of my business but are they going to zealand for that other i expect so i'm not familiar with the communities but i know they're quite active and i would expect that they're looking at that yeah yeah definitely i think if we can avoid one accident save one life it's definitely worth it having those kinds of safety things in that in place and thank you for including the storms the other work as well fortunate in that regard yeah that's good timing ok could we have a vote please an brian that won't be coming immediately right twenty eight hundred twenty one thousand or so yeah the railroad has has its own schedule that is quite quite lengthy but i would say twenty eighteen at the earliest there's some engineering work that needs to go into it as well as some other things before we can get into the construction phase ok thank you very much chris all right moving on to management administrative services the reporting of gifts that could you tell us about that the city manager's office is pleased to report the following gives parks and recreation for the sales per  scholarship program received a donation anonymous donation in the amount of two hundred six dollars parks and recreation for digraphs nature center received a fifty dollar donation from john edwards howling in bloom for the rock parks and recreation received a donation from the to the big event that was held in the amount of twenty dollars how a news connection for the fifth year of the program received donations from a sharon mcmanus in the amount of one hundred dollars michael mary marilyn eighty in the amount of one thousand dollars shell edwards in the amount of one hundred robert and barbara springer see link in the amount of twenty five dollars in joshua and alyssa garth in the amount of twenty dollars michigan safety services department received a donation for the community policing an ice cream truck in the amount of five hundred dollars for a michael finnie the it is recommended that these donations be accepted with that passes thank you so much such a variety and such a wonderful generosity as i read over the list i have like how many councils have a list of donations to their municipality every meeting i don't remember a meeting in the last twelve years that didn't have donations from people and that is such such a comment about the generosity and kindness and and willingness of people to be involved in what goes on here and above and beyond basis and we are so grateful thank you community now we're going on to the west michigan regional airport which is having milledge boat and greg robinson is here in his first public meeting as our interim city manager and i don't mean to run over that i just kind of switch back here always having been here gregg we appreciate that and we know that you have  the manager at the airport over the last three years after you retired officially from the city and you are retaining that position as you help us out in the interim as city managers so that you have both hats on tonight and we'd appreciate hearing about this milledge for the west michigan regional airport ok good so at your last study session response in time on this but the for those who might be watching and for man to person particularly who was instrumental  helping to form the airport authority amanda i don't know what your vision might have been back then i know what the group's vision was but hopefully as i run through the slides i will have met or maybe exceeded what we had hoped when we first started talking about the so as we talked about last wednesday this airport is per primarily right now serves the employers in our area which means for us jobs maintaining jobs growing jobs and this slide here if you look at the top slide in particular this is one day at the new apron at the airport and this is a day where perhaps we could have asked ourselves if we build that apron area large enough because it was full of aircraft and a real challenge for those who are trying to park the aircraft so it doesn't always look like that or maybe even often like that but i can tell you just when we had the zealand city council out to the airport on monday and there were a number of large jets on the on the apron at that time and what the inspiration to me is that's business that's that's going to have to help maintain and grow jobs in our community help to win contracts for additional jobs and it's really an inspiration to see these aircraft on a daily basis coming in and out of our community just to give you just a feeling for the size of some of the aircraft that use the airport this here a series of logos as these are all the companies that use the airport but there are a number of them and as you look at that list whether it be hayworth or gentex or zealand farm services or herman miller or you know right on down the list almost every major employer in our community relies on your port to some degree it is truly our highway to the rest of the world  their aircraft there is a is an aircraft or one of our local companies and not sure if it's loading or unloading but you can see the relative impact there this was the first vision for those  visiting our community from from the from traveling for it from the air so this office building this was our primary office building for probably over thirty years so when you think about the millions of dollars that our companies have invested in their or their facilities and when we're bringing potentially new customers or current customers to those facilities this could be the first impression of our community it certainly doesn't reflect the economic vitality of our community and so we in september of two thousand and sixteen we open this facility which is our new terminal and it just gives a whole different pressure and when you holland now and we it is serving just the way we hoped it would so there are those who didn't think they would use this facility that are now using it for their business meetings and actually not only that but community meetings we're holding down here as well so we're bringing more people from around the community into this facility and in closer to the airport so let's talk about economic benefits here for just a couple of minutes the state of michigan considers our airport a tier one airport so if i were able to share the definition of that to you it includes either the word critical or essential in terms relating our airport to the overall value to the michigan aviation system so we are to your one airport there are all sorts of criteria we need to meet in order to remain and to become a teacher want to airport and we meet every single one of them so that's a credit to our airport authority that they have done that over the years and that we are considered this it helps us to obtain funding to maintain this airport you know i showed you the terminal building those are exciting things maybe not so exciting for us around the table perhaps are things like concrete and blacktop but if we don't maintain those services at the airport we won't have those aircraft landing here we can't have potholes we can't have any damage whatsoever so that enables us to receive some additional funding as well we estimate that the federal aviation administration puts on enya will operations at the airport there's almost thirty five thousand there are nearly seventeen hundred direct jobs related to airport operations those are mechanics those are pilots those there are those who schedule the flights those that are dreadfully related they would not have those jobs in our community if not for the airport and then there are thousands of indirect jobs whether they be jobs that may not be here if those companies were not able to have air access through our airport they may have grown somewhere else they may not have located her o or they may have located somewhere else closer to an airport so there are thousands of indirect jobs and there are also those jobs that are service jobs or other jobs in our community cr created because of these jobs people have to buy gasoline they have to buy food and all of those types of things that are spinoff jobs from the jobs created at the airport for those or for only those jobs created at the airport  estimated that there's nearly one hundred sixty four million dollars in annual income to our area so nearly one hundred sixty sixty four million dollars and that doesn't take into account the indirect jobs so when you add those numbers it's in the hundreds of millions of dollars that are somehow related to having the stop this airport in our community we received  in the in february of this year excuse me we were presented with the two thousand and sixteen airport sponsor of the year award that's really like airport owner of the year and there are over two hundred airports in our classification so we were selected out of all of those to be the airport owner of the year and i'll just mention that we were also selected in two thousand and six so twice in ten years out of over two hundred airports so that's i think amanda nother credit  to the airport authority three governing units the city of holland city of zealand and part township and each appoint three representatives to the airport authority board an elegant elegant county appoints wan official member and ottawa county appoints one as well and we have a for the current fiscal year we have a about a three hundred ninety thousand dollars operating budget we have a capital budget of the year we just have completed a five hundred fifty thousand and one thing i want to note there of that five hundred fifty thousand this particular year seventy percent of that came through the f a a four percent of the state of michigan  twenty six percent through the airport authority sometimes with our projects we will receive ninety percent funding from the f a a five percent from the state and five percent from the airport authority we  debt free at the airport right now so we save money we've been able to do this for our capital projects so we just completed a major project with the terminal involved property acquisition construction a new apron area connectors to taxi ways and so forth lighting we did that debt free so we feel pretty good about that and it's big because of the airport authority there but the board's ability to save over those years in order to do that i don't know that will always be able to do that we have some big projects coming up where we would be we're looking to have some flexibility in case we have to bond or borrow for that the millage is a tenth of a mill it's the lowest lowest milage rate  governing unit any authority in our area it's a tenth of a mill but that amounts to forty eight percent of our operating capital budget in the current fiscal year we have other revenue sources twenty three percent come from fees  that we levy on when we sell aircraft fuel or for aircraft that land at the airport they pay us a fee unless they're based on r and r techs in the area and then we lease land and that's about twenty percent of our budget for all those leases and then we receive private contributions so for the new terminal building for example we received over three hundred sixty thousand dollars in cash contributions and one hundred fifty thousand dollars in furniture contributions so the building is completely furnished through the generosity of hayworth and herman miller so the military know well we the first milledge was approved by voters in two thousand and seven it was renewed in two thousand and this two thousand and five two thousand and twelve and those are five year militias now we're asking for a ten year milage renewal so sometimes when we did those votes there were election costs for us this year they'll be a cost between twelve and seventeen thousand and park township for us to run this election i don't know that there will be one city of holland this year and i don't think in zealand either will there be a cost to us or if there is will be just a small cost a relatively small cost but sometimes when we go out for these you never know what cycle it's going to fall upon and so there could be additional cost so the board thought it was prudent to go for a ten year milledge we do realize that when we go ten year that means we can ask for any increases in the milage rate over that ten year period that it's going to stay at a tenth of a mill and it may even be less than that due to the two and hedley adjustments but still that will prob provide some additional flexibility also in case we do need to do any borrowing it's very difficult to do that when you have a five year milage that window is very narrow we did talk about whether we should do this for year just do it or on every presidential election cycle but i tell you what five years goes fast and it seems before you know it we're already preparing for the next election and four years would make that even tighter and would even further limit our financing ability beyond saving and pay as you go so we're requesting a ten year milage renewal and for the average city of holland residential property that would be five dollars and ninety cents for an average residential property in the city now keep in mind our companies are businesses they pay the tax too so they pay far more you know on the average and five dollars and ninety cents  polluting those who use the airport they're paying thousands of dollars in taxes to support the airport for the city hall and this will generate nearly one hundred seven thousand dollars we estimate in the first year  the city council approved this on monday evening ten your milage and we go to park township on august tenth so what we're asking you to do tonight is to adopt a resolution to place a tenth of a was two thousand and seven i got involved in supporting the first milledge request and i was working in banking at the time and could clearly see the economic impact in that job not just for the businesses that leverage the airport but quite honestly how that works its way out as greg talked about economic multipliers two point seven  associated with that it was plain as day and even more so today i think it's that obvious and i think it's an amazing asset for this community that takes this broader community not just the thirty or thirty five thousand people that call the city limits home but expanding that and i think that's the whole point i think this is a great example of a collaborative effort where multiple jurisdictions have been able to see that  well and you know i'm glad to see that we're keeping it affordable but i'm also glad to see that the ten year request because i think the will be on proof of concept now and we're into implementation mode in this gives us a lot more stable footing to make sure that this regional asset continues to grow it has access to appropriate financing facilities and mechanisms to to have an even greater in the audience is also city hall and our representative on the board great business after business says how important it is to bring future customers here to be able to see what we do just flat screening what we do is not the total experience and when they can come here see things and then go back in the same day then we play with the big boys in the world of industry and they can convince them that this is not like anywhere usa here in holland michigan and it's in the numbers speak for themselves the amount of money that we can leverage in investment and from federal and state additional funds to this is amazing and it provides so much for the region so we're grateful for those with the vision to have put this in place thanks man that greg novels that were in the founding of this and all th served on the committee sky and tired we appreciate everybody's involvement in this so we need to have a vote if there's no more discussion and could you call that roll please e staff has gone out of their way to assist me providing you with information trying to get me up to speed and i really appreciate that and so we still more work to do on that and they haven't rolled their eyes too many times at me yet so i think that's working out ok you know certainly have pre show any interaction that you have had with me those of you have reached out to me and in a couple of different ways and i appreciate that as well so you know in these first few weeks and maybe beyond  you know i'm trying to learn as much as i can about what has taken place the last several years and some of it for whatever reason it's it's in here somewhere and it's come out and i can't believe it that i could remember certain things that i haven't thought about for years but there are a lot of things that are new and i have to keep reminding people treat me as if i don't know when and i'll let you know if i do so we're getting there and i just i really appreciate that the it's provided to every one is provided to me so thank you for that thank you great we really appreciate your willingness to serve the city and you undersell your experience that but it's only been three years since you stepped out full time and you have been involved in the authority and so you have been circling around here so and live in the community through we we're very grateful for your level of expertise and your ability to already have the categories in your mind of things that happen when you're in municipal government this is that you're not starting from scratch though you have really caught the baton and kept running with us so we really appreciate that thank you and we'll have company coming i think it's always good when everybody knows that companies coming and it's this sunday they will be from the communities in bloom organization is that isn't international organised like we've been doing america emblem for six years now this is communities in bloom and that's organization you cannot start there you have to start in the united states with the american blue and then you can be recommended to go on to communities in bloom and we have been and are accepted and so we have two judges coming by lewis from ontario and bob i have a son from the united kingdom so they will come fly in i think saturday be staying near the airport and really hitting the ground in holland probably sunday night they'll be leaving on wednesday so they'll be bob and bob see you can't say the wrong name if you see them and be sure to be friendly and please tidy up your place so that we can look good for th company that's going to be coming really glad about that and also remember farmer's market on wednesday and saturday it is so well attended and people are having a great time we appreciate everybody's flexibility with the civic center closed and we should be having a couple walls of that come down pretty soon but if it is in process and it's been exciting did you have anything you want to share matt about things they're finding in there are some interesting things you shared in our study session before this sure so the internal demolition of the building is well underway they've begun to do some of the site work and through that process they actually found something that's very interesting and those are actually old i think they're actually city of holland or city hall  water mains and they are about six feet long they look like a six by six piece of wood and they've got about two and a half inch hole around to the middle of them and that's how they used to provide water service to probably what was prior on that location prior to the civic center we would hope but these are would actually would water mains that they've dug up and we've put aside one to keep and probably drop those and was you know more who knows maybe they will find a way to integrate them within the building itself to showcase what was there prior to our new civic center being redone and rebuilt wow that's a long time ago and you found a foundation to down there right yet not not exactly sure what it was from was it was pretty deep that that  area has been built on a lot of fill but yes there was a foundation well under the surface of what is now a parking lot that was there in there for a very long time and it wasn't removed so it's going to be there for a lot longer now yeah maybe there were like fifteen businesses that burned down i think with the fire that we had an eight hundred seventy one we don't know very interesting the archaeological digs of the civic center goes on and on and i thank you for being our owners representative over at the civic center that will appreciate that yes and we'll have street performers again on thursday night that's hugely widely wonderfully attended people really enjoy that and we're glad to have that every thursday evening people have asked a little bit about the closing of the roads  that is given to the discretion of the police officers that are working the event so if they feel as though it is becoming unsafe with the numbers of people they have authority to close the streets but otherwise we keep them open and places that have always closed streets or chosen to close streets for a time tend to kind of kill the involvement of people and as difficult as it may be to navigate around cars and and everything that happens there's a certain vibrancy to that and it does seem to lend itself to great community activities so just so people know that it is up to the police officers to close those streets of it appears to be unsafe but we love having so many people come and enjoy and all that we have to offer in downtown holland in the summer it is hard to beat so any other communications from council members this evening mike did you something mike i do think you just a shameless plug which i haven't done yet this year so i would make a very brief year comes six weeks from now but i don't want to wish the summer away but six weeks from now there's a special holiday called labor day and there's a special prey that happens on that i just want people to put that september for labor day community truck parade will be going on along with the boardwalk two traditions that have been going on now for ten twelve years in the city hall in the hope to see everybody out there little challenge this year because of the construction but we'll still make it happen maybe a couple less trucks but none the less ice cream and fun will be had by oh so see it on labor day and you'll hear more in the future it's great thank you and the other comments from council members you know we appreciate the mention of the labor day boardwalk too for industry and for families it's a great place to be in emotions and resolutions from council members seeing nine i guess we need that final motion for