well good evening everyone and welcome to this regularly scheduled meeting the holland city council we are glad that you're here in chambers if you're here in chambers otherwise watching at home or somewhere from around the world today is of course national grammar day so we're like immediately thereafter will have the pledge of allegiance to the flag if you're in chambers tonight i would invite you to rise and join us in both of these lord of all we pause before this meeting to give you thanks and seek your blessing on our meeting and on our community we thank you for the many resources that you have given us individually and collectively help us to be mindful that to those whom much is given much is expected instill in all of us a spirit of compassion and generosity we thank you for those who faithfully protect and serv those that control our neighborhoods that stand ready to aid in emergency the provider utilities that maintain and clean our streets we ask you to continue to keep them safe in their work protect to we ask those who defend our freedom around the world guide us in our deliberations tonight and in our inner interactions throughout our lives to treat one another with respect to seek thank you bob there are written well printed agendas copies of the agenda in the rack in the rear of the room for those of you who are in chambers tonight i dish and only if you have an electronic device of some sort  you may find not only a copy of this evening's agenda but also all the background material councils reviewed in preparation for this evening's meeting and you can do that by going to city of holland dot com go to the calendar page today's date and you'll find information about it  you'll note as you look at the agenda there are a variety of items to have an asterix next to them these are items that are on our consent agenda meaning we think that they're relatively routine or been previously discussed by council in our intention is to handle them all with one motion and one vote now just because we think that they're routine you may not in fact think they're so routine in fact you might be here tonight specifically to talk about one of those items so i'll explain in a moment how we can handle that of situation but first of all we will ask our deputy city clerk to read for us what is presently situated on the consent agenda to approve the minutes of the meetings held feb eighteenth and twenty five  item eleven to accept and file out of office from various boards and commissions item fourteen in one to approve a contract with davis construction in the total amount of fourteen million three hundred thirty thousand for the wastewater treatment plant improvements subject to approval as to form by the city attorney fourteen eight to two approve a contract with associates inc in not to exceed amount of fifty two thousand eight hundred for the natural gas line electrical engineering services subject to approval as to form by the project attorney i don't fourteen eighty three to approve a contract with wesh or consultant in a not to exceed amount of eighty four thousand three hundred sixty eight for surveying the services of the natural gas pipeline for the new hauen energy park subject to approval as to form by the project attorney i am fortini for to approve a contract with western lamp services in the end and an amount not to exceed forty eight thousand four hundred eighty two dollars for the one thirty eight k v interconnect electrical line subject to approval as to form by the project attorney fourteen c one to adopt a resolution for the does admission of the deputy city clerk as the foyer cord areas to to approve a lease agreement in the amount of two thousand three hundred thirty two dollars with grand valley state university for the use of two former police vehicles to be utilized in connection with the grand valley state university police academy subject to approval last a form by the city attorney item fourteen the one to refer a claim filed against the city to the city's insurance carrier and city attorney for consideration i'd import team d to two of to resolution to schedule a public hearing for the march eighteenth consul meeting for licenses that are not in compliance with the city's liquor policy for the renewal of annual liquor licenses from the michigan liquor control commission and that the deputy clerk be instructed to notify those not in compliance allowing the license holder the opportunity to respond item fourteen three to approve the taxicab business license request on behalf of united taxi l l c subject to approval of vehicle inspection schedule for march five with sergeant of the public safety police division in fourteen before to approve the two thousand and fifteen tulip time festival contract an insurance certificate as reviewed and approved by the city attorney fourteen east three point one to declare a surplus of various equipment as outlined by the parks division and to dispose of them all that is most beneficial to the city and fourteen eat three point two to approve the firm of arthur j gallagher as the agent of record for the city of public works property casualty and worker's compensation insurance program effective july one two thousand and fifteen and to use agent of record for service only effective immediately and to authorize the finance two to schedule a public hearing on march eighteenth at the request of a p a one ninety eight tax abatement application submitted by challenge manufacturing company thirteen forty seven washington avenue and that the deputy clerk be instructed to publish and mail the required two thousand and fourteen invoice from the fiscal year two thousand and fifteen budget subject to approval asked for and by the city attorney's office and item fourteen five point four to approve the appointment of council member handle with one motion and one vote now if you're here tonight to talk about one of those items and you'd like to have it taken off of this consent agenda please step forward of the microphone and tell us what number it is and we'll handle it where it ordinarily shows up in the region anybody care to remove an item from the consent agenda all right and one of the council care to remove one or more items from the consent agenda cults member birch believe it is south shore drive between sixteenth and seventeenth streets we invite joel di the interim director of community neighborhood services to introduce this item for us all this evening thank you thank you mayor and city  council this evening you will be holding a public hearing regarding the vacation of a small eastern portion of sauce or drive right away between sixteenth and seventeenth streets this public hearing was scheduled back on january twenty first two thousand and fifteen at a previous city council meeting since that time to city clerk's office has submitted the necessary public notice requirements in the hall and said no also this afternoon we did receive a check in the amount of four thousand two hundred eighty one dollars and ninety eight cents from the adjacent property owner lake mack developers which is required for this vacation to go through that check was deposited into the city accounts like i said this afternoon to give the people in the audience and those at home watching t v a little bit of background on why we are here late mack developers is in the process of doing the crescent marina redevelopment at the former crescent marina to help you get your bearings lake mecca towers the blue shaded area at the top of the screen this is sixteenth street and crescent drive and a south shore drive off to the southwest where it merges with sixteenth street and seventeenth street and then becomes crescent or south shore drive as part of this development the developers do in a multi story building with the first floor will be residential the next two floors of the first floor of the retail  restaurant the next two floors the upper floors will be apartments as part of this development to get the building they need in the building the city desires part of their building will be your what will go onto an existing right away therefore we must vacate that portion of the right away so their building can proceed as we would like it to proceed what we will be vacating is what we're going to be vacating is just this northern part of this green shaded area as you can tell this white line that goes through here this is the ad of the south shore drive road so what we're going to be vacating will not affect the design of the road it will not effect the width of the road it's more or less just going to be affecting their sidewalk and their area on their development specifically the legal description which i will not read is identified in your resolution and then again on the screen here but it's represented in this hashed area identified as partial be on the map or front of you again this will be a public hearing tonight then after the public hearing the vacating goes through the clerk all right we have this evening was a public hearing which we've heard the report on and this time i would declare the public hearing to be open there's anybody in the audience that wishes to address counsel on this matter know your opportunity come to the come to the podium and you would have five minutes to speak but since i forgot the and can't reach the we won't have the the light system but we'll let you know when your five minutes are up so anyone are well on our way with so sure and excited about what this developments going to bring to the community and to to the shoreline and excited to see the selling season coming for us thank you  questions for the representative i drive by that development just about daily back and forth to work and it's been exciting to see the progress that's been made looking forward to when there are going to be models open on some fine new home sites in the city we're very excited about that anyone else who wishes to address the site and if not i will declare the supported by the third ward representative indeed any comments from members of coun very nicely all right then the other special for the day here is the deal of the matter dealing with public hearing and sestak before the central avenue for snow melt assessment district and for this item i don't know if  director of transportation is going to introduce the ryan white chief or if the city manager will hold you guys arm wrestle for crime i will explain the details of the snow melt assessment on your screen if i had to put money between the city manager and mr white in the arm wrestling match right welcome ok all right good he made dexter good evening council members tonight before you have the hearing of necessity for snow melt improvements that are part of our central avenue reconstruction project this process that we've gone through over the last couple of council meetings leading up to this point  basically trying to determine the extent of the still no improvements that we want to put into our central avenue project the map that up on the screen here goes into some detail about  that basically we're looking at the area between six treat to the north and thirteenth street to the south and as we've discussed before there's really two components to the snow melt we've divided into transmission which is shown on the red at the bottom of the screen there that's basically the big pipes in the street that get the snow melt water out various parts of our district brickwork that goes into the sidewalk and so those are both the components that we're talking about here tonight should point out that from the assessment standpoint in the hearing standpoint we're really focusing in on that top area there that is the area that would be shared with adjacent property owners and  right our questions for brian we've had pretty extensive discussion with six percent being towards the tax exempt property right ok right this is the time of the place for a public hearing of this particular item as the mayor pro tem mentioned a moment ago if you want to address council on a dial up in a public hearing in a moment please step forward to the microphone so everyone can hear what you have to say council rules state that you must have a name and residential address for the record and then you'll have up to five minutes to address council and because i have the nifty little device next to me  you'll see a green light go on when you get to the four minute mark i e one minute left it'll turn yellow when you hit the five minute mark it will turn red meaning your time is expired so if anyone would care to address council at this time on this item the microphone is open the public hearing is open as well you to them so central avenue great project we've been brewing out for for four years it's great to see it move forward awesome the snowmelt component which we're talking about here huge opportunity and i just commend again the hard work and putting together the assessment the detailed plans and all i can say is a few things that i've learned over the twenty seven years since we installed the original systems and in one nine hundred eighty eight every additional link makes the whole system stronger it makes it more usable for everybody makes it more attractive to the entire downtown area second snow melt enhanced as downtowns image and brand and capability to attract future investment customers etc and it's interesting lee really interesting in great part of the community energy plan and the rainbow of opportunities we see within the plan this is one of the shining examples i can guarantee you that in one nine hundred eighty seven and eighty eight through thinking about snow melt it was much more nebulous what are we getting into with this million dollar project you can imagine the discussions but i don't know if in a really important five to three vote city council back then decided to move ahead with what was then viewed as a very amazing and strange project twenty seven years later we know it works you know if you were downtown if you moved around in the community yesterday with three inches of slush sleet and rain i was at meetings all day walking around downtown but at five thirty a street was dry it was dry and there were dozens probably hundreds of people running doing their tuesday night training and work up for their marathon work but the question has been raised beyond the scope here how far should we go how far should we extend the thermal grid the thermal spine the the plan is to bring the transmission lines down to thirteenth street potentia the sidewalks trying to thirteenth which i would certainly advocate and support and hope you can do at least the transmission pipes but how much further the general rule that we follow the street and on river in anywhere else if you had major streets openness to put the big pipes and because that's the moment to do it you have one chance to do it and it's it's the best time to preserve the potential opportunities going forward so i gave mention this to individually in some cases and also with the pre concert and other discussions that i want you to be aware of a serious effort to raise capital to help the project go further south beyond thirteenth street to get the transmission lines further south to get a snow melt sidewalk on one side of the street or the other farther south than the advocates and supporters are those a bunch of folks interested in getting to evergreen carmen's which was always part of the plan the central avenue project i said connection down to twentieth with snow melt and thermal potential being explored that scope was changed in recent months and we're now at thirteenth street this group is interest in raising money to in the form really of a about matching grant that would allow council to receive we think the majority if not more than a majority of the dollars that would allow the i think brian a said it's a myth about a million dollar project to do what i've just described transmission lines in one sidewalk down to twentieth we've only focused on modern commercial zones to date the street river and now we're talking about central and i would say in general we haven't touched residential areas this is starting to explore that on the other hand central is not a normal residential street it's one of the river being that they are to real central as the most important probably north street next to river were evident evidence by this project evidence by the by claims we're trying to install in potentially this thermal group that we're trying to put into place it can become a really important energy corridor for us so the opportunity to connect snow melt and thermal capabilities here city hall the library if you think about central fourteenth street c r c along with central c r c that's going to be plugged in midtown potentially the jubilee buildings the sixteenth street shopping district in that ultimately evergreen evergreen has no designs on instant use of thermal energy for district energy or snow melt actually they are interested the supporters of evergreen are interested in getting the sidewalk through the central neighborhood core of the community and for all those neighbors that live near it to be able to get onto that sidewalk and move north and south certainly to every but certainly to downtown they're interesting helping that happen details to be worked out ryan and brian and tim and i have been talking about this we think there are a couple different ways we're we're putting a challenge that all we're going to bring a chunk of this money hopefully the majority over majority but it means there's more challenge for council i think there are several ways we can get at that that i'd be happy to talk about with you separately but we are excited about the project we're excited about snowmelt and we're excited that and would ask you to consider extension down as far south as twentieth street thank you thank you the public hearing is still open all right we will close the public hearing then right now i know we have members of visit dr wright and state and local government class here this is where you really gather the credits right now you're going to watch the sausage being made in this moment because there's about seven different things we could do bits pieces and parts  a motion to get something going some discussion go move to support her right can we haven't understanding of what exactly is being recommended brian yes sure so within the recommendation here basically it's it would include all the transmission from street to thirteenth street again understanding the transmission isn't part and parcel to distribution necessarily in terms of how we share that cost but it is it obviously we can't have distribution without the transmission piece so so that would come into it but from a distribution standpoint what's in the or no yes so we're not proposing any improvements down there by w h to see you know transmission is correct that that infrastructure is in place as it stands right now all right so that is what is if i can ask a question first of all to start this off we were speaking of transmission lines which are the big main arteries so to speak when those are installed and i correct in believing that along with are junction boxes installed as well that's part of the installation of transmission lines typically yeah that's a good good question and yes so when we talk about the transmission lines going in the cost associated with space in the parkway between the curb and sidewalk within a box basically so that at some future date if we decided to go ahead and go ahead and make that snow melt  happen along those specific areas that we could do that without getting into the street just simply basically put the necessary infrastructure within the box the manifold and then out from the manifold would be the next tubes that go underneath the sidewalk so there'd be a little bit of a construction worker associated with that but again we wouldn't need to necessarily go into the street we would just start at the box at that point so when all is said and done to  what you said the streets all finished and paved you free chose to put the snow melt in one of the sidewalks it's just a matter of tearing up the sidewalk putting the pex tubes and replacing the pv correct streets stays pristine go all the way to tenth basically what we're looking at is that piece from night to tent i'm sorry if we take the distribution out would there be sidewalk work necessary oh intersections typically we're going to have some eighty eight requirements that we need to upgrade those intersection areas of the sidewalk system with so that's with the the truncated domes that go right at the landing and then also if there's any slope issues that that are there present we would fix those and bring those up to eighty eight standards also if there is some utility laterals that would need to be brought out as part of the central project and then there may be some disturb to the sidewalk from that perspective as well so there is you know some work that will go on you know project wide for central avenue but we're looking at probably that be in focus to to the areas at the intersections and then where we cross for utility laterals the whole point of the question is if we decide not to do the distribution we are not necessarily going to be ripping up work that has been done basically to dave's point about not putting the transmission in line not putting the transmission line in right away if we don't do that we would not be turning up work that was just done yet again with the that would go ahead with snow melt sidewalks is that correct  that as the current ok but the people in that area would be assessed for what they would not they would not be assessed so again the recommendation is from six to tent understanding that the the notice went out for six to thirteen yeah that's right it's just referencing what was in the packet in terms of recommendation of course we talked about multiple number of options and that would be subject to counsel amendment of the motion just so we're clear what's presently on the floor for discussion right now is only is so ago but we did receive some correspondence from the central avenue reform church they actually are between graves place and tenth street then you had an opportunity to look at that just  a short while ago at the pre cancer meeting but i think if we decided to go with the recommendation we may want to consider including that piece based on their correspondence with us that they view that as favorable again just wanted to point that out and you can do that will with the transmission here yes correct with the transmission only going to  little hole in one second but we had representatives from hope college upstairs tonight saying they want to so just so just so we're all clear what we would be voting on right now does not include the church nor any of the whole college properties nor the main property now that's the way council wants to go so be it was not you know make the mistake of not understanding that's what we're looking at come from right within i'm still just a tad bit confused because this map included in the spit in the packet the recommendation reads to recommend the city council top tax fizzles necessity of central avenue with project limits from six tree to ten st so we didn't we wanted to have the maps show you a number of different things but that's how the resolution read so and so we would be in order to pick up that piece between one thousand tenth basically we would be using you know prices from the bed distribution sorry i'm not an engineer and for purposes of a motion to amend i need a little more clarity one are you talking one side of the street both sides of the  street but we need to know that so we can vote on the amendment assuming it's supporting one side of the street the eastern edge oh my goodness all right so that in the form of a motion yes seeking an amendment all right we heard the the motion to amend the original motion is there support for it i support the right supported bergstrom so now only the amendment is before us and the amendment to be clear is to extend the transmission from tenth street to thirteenth street on the eastern side of the street distribution them stores that i see transmission avenue under the same terms and conditions as the rest of the assessment district here as per the assessment roll with a sixty forty split for some of those property right which is precisely they all right any discussion on the amendment yes council three i'm sorry but i can't support that only for the reason that it's the same can dundrum that we come in with putting sidewalks and putting sidewalks in one side of the street doesn't make any sense putting snow melt in one side of the street doesn't make any sense to me of central avenue on from ten to thirty east side any final discussion on the motion as amended and just to be clear the discussion that m holcombe brought to us this evening in theory there could be non assessment ways or amendments to the to the contract if we found a way or wanted to do that soon  but not yet tonight yes so as it stands right now there's a fair amount of engineering work that would be needed in order to go beyond thirteenth street so the sooner that we can get that information the sooner we can put to paper and and see what that looks like both from a cost standpoint as well as just physically understanding where those pipes will go and how those will be put on the ground proposed tonight we will not be able to assess anything in the future even for upkeep or maintenance am i correct in that statement or incorrect mr city attorney you're talking about assessing for the cost of going to be out there if it's if the transmission we've already determined is typically of no assessment type of thing we have not done that there was a proposal for future maintenance minimal cost and that the assessment that we're talking about primarily happens to be on the distribution side that the proposal that was put before us was a short period time that that may be waived this is obviously going to last more than four or five years which was proposed at which point we are then burdening potentially burdening the residents for something that they had no say in because it's in front of their house and all this and you've been assessed to help pay for that if we do not do anything with that tonight and we approve are we going to have a chance to approve or deny without holding this whole thing up weeks and weeks and weeks more or must that be decided tonight if there's going to be distribution beyond thirteenth street if there's going to be distribution be on thirteenth street and have to be another hearing for if there's going to be assessment of that cost because the the notice that went out on leave leave extends to thirteenth street terms of the description of the property to be a that going beyond that would require another public hearing another assessment district for an amendment to this district but it would require another public hearing to assess cost going beyond thirteenth street to the property owners and we don't know if if we're not going to consider that we don't need to do anything further with that except to say something to brian that yeah we want to explore what that's actually going to cost we're just the transmission correct if there's not going to be any assessment we're clear and free to do that but we better do it pretty quick if we're going to do that that that would be correct there's a clear that's correct good thank you i don't use anymore no that's a good question from tenth to thirteenth and from both sides from the ninth to use six correct now the only problem i have with that is the property owners up to so what we did with the ph d c in that area we sort of said well they were not interested in ok we kind of pull that back and i realize it's not the same trying to traffic area but i do have a problem assessing people k thank you thank you for a comment on this tonight and for two more stuff in the future on this all right so we have some unfinished business dealing with some information from the traffic please say i all right i oppose the same all right it's back on the floor we just need the briefest of introduction again this once and to benefit yes so what we have before us tonight is a recommendation from the traffic committee  we did hold a public meeting with the area residents back on february seventeenth to try and get some consensus behind a proposed no parking on the south side of fifteenth street between harrison and ven  altie and we did we we would recommend that we limit that to school days only from the hours of seven thirty a m to three p m again recognizing that it tends to get to be a pretty narrow street with parked cars during the day specifically during those times and we feel if we can prohibit that it'll make traffic flow a lot smoother through there so all right any questions for brian this again is a for a public hearing so here to talk about this one please step for the microphone name residential address cetera et cetera a public hearing is open all right see no one will close the public hearing with recommendation from the drug the committee is there a motion please movie approved by peter's support supported by hoekstra discussion seeing none please call audience otherwise known as a time for extra credit it's good local government if you're here to address council on anything that there's not otherwise show up on the agenda here is the chance to do so rules of council or relatively simple as you've heard before step forward to the microphone so everyone can hear what you have to say state your name and residential address for the record we have up to five minutes to address council the microphone is op event and he will be here a little shortly later if you can why don't we do this let's suspend the rules if you're ok with readjusting the agenda will come back to this item at a time future unless there's objection will suspend them to bring back this item for the entirety of the central avenue project basically the extensive that central avenue project third street to the north state street to the south and there is some side streets  there that are included as well the project includes quite a bit of work there's going to be new storm sewer put in as part of the project to relieve some flooding in the central  put put in some non motorized improvements from twelve to state street going to be bike lanes and then from twelve to the north proposing some some  estimations again with what's come out of the hearing of necessity i believe we're going to have to increase the snow melt funds by approximately seventy thousand dollars to cover that additional distribution  from tenth to thirteenth on the one side we could do that in a couple of different ways if you want to award the bid at the as a bit amount we can certainly do that with the understanding that staff would make  o the seven point nine to a basically the bit amount of cane are in award on that basis so not sure if there's a preference there but i would staff  with city attorney approval if it's possible to have a dollar amount on that he just yeah i don't have the exact dollar amount but it is going to be on the order of seventy thousand dollars just correct and i don't think the actual number for the base bid was put in here and you want to put that on the record yes so again for the recommendation and this comes off of the chart on page one the bit amount was seven million nine hundred twenty eight thousand ninety nine dollars and thirty five  so mr city attorney if we put in something along the lines of not to exceed two hundred thousand dollars that that give sufficient limitation on the discretion of staff that would be good so whoever makes our motion might wan just mention a little piece to satisfy the city attorney as well as to give our staff the flexibility to get this project moving ok discussion comes from which is really placed before discussion i have a question along the mayor's lines of cleanliness on this whole thing if if we were to make or attempt to make an amendment or the adjustment to include the transmission line from put thirteen self would you want that as an amendment to this or just directive to staff to investigate it and we would talk about it some of the time what would be the cleanest yeah i think a recommendation that we would investigate it assuming that something would come forward that would direct you know that would trigger that so to speak then i think that you know that would be appropriate at that time once we do know that there's a definite interest to go into the south there than we can pick it up from there and look at it from an engineering standpoint may i make that request that we least investigated some harder faster numbers on the yes questions for staff we have a motion on the floor discussion on it please right what about eight half million dollars project wow you know most of it is where at least half of it or so is beneath the surface community aquatic center on community pool of already think technically as its name is here with us and andy kenyon our director of parks and recreation is here and you'll introduce this item for us a wonderful partnership for this upcoming season something that jack and i have talked about for a while now we tried to get something going last summer and didn't the timing didn't quite work out but work cited that we've gotten moving on this quickly and it's something we're both very excited about this opportunity to have and it's basically the gist of it is that the aquatic center would take over all of the management of the pool they would supply the labor for the pool and they would do the programming at  summer we've talked about some exciting opportunities to increase our programming through their expertise that they do very well we as a city which still maintain the facilities which include the grounds the buildings the pools all the chemistry involved in the pool we would still do as well jack has some great ideas for some programming opportunities that would include new competitive opportunities for some swim teams some free swimming lessons i want to give give him an opportunity to talk about that a little bit as well so you know i'm in the thank you and members of council thank you for this opportunity it's been kind of a dream of  there to support the city in a new partnership we have kind of in the past focused within our walls and now our goal is to really kind of grow outside those walls in this represents a good opportunity to do that  very thankful to the balance family presented a great gift to our community a number of years ago i actually swim in that swing pool and would like to be able to say that it's this thing that will for many years to come so in that manner i'd like to come alongside city of council and city of holland and support it with our capabilities at the aquatic center so as any mention we would like to take over the responsibility of programming and labor we'll take our best and brightest and bring them over to the bow school during the summer and offer some lessons it's our intent to do those for free and reduced children and at no cost it's our outreach as a matter of fact and it's our goal to utilize our social media venues and and opportunities to get people to support the program actually click on our website click on a swimmer who loves to dice a swimmer during the summer receive a tax credit opportunity at the end of the year and thereby really support the program and the city's objectives so we're ready to come alongside you do it we can really utilize some of our contacts within the usa swimming pool the nation to ask for grants to also support this and as i mentioned it's just jack thank you any questions for either into your jack all right then no question please wildest appreciation i'm just very grateful for your creativity in coming up with a way to help support kids in their passably olympic dreams and swimming and maybe they don't have the economic support to do that and so for people in the community to come along and help support them and then for that for those students to take their expertise and give to other kids that would not be able to enjoy swimming lessons and learning comes through the through the summer like that and to have mentors who have been there done that and can inspire them to think beyond their situation today that's just an awesome gift of of everybody working together to to build the community in so many great great directions and i think it's so great to encourage kids to mentor younger students as well in the gifts that they've already been given themselves sides a brilliant way building into the community we appreciate your heart of two thousand five hundred dollars from the holland area convention and visitors bureau digraph nature center received three donations gives from foreign land improvements project from a melinda harbored in the amount of fifty thousand dollars holland garden club also donated three thousand dollars and johnny b and in bash company in the amount of one thousand five hundred dollars in kind donation cultural festival received one hundred dollars donation from robert dinoire chevrolet and kenner industries in the amount of two hundred fifty dollars martin luther king day and additional one hundred fifty dollars the victim services unit for the public safety division received donations from biggest donors in the amount of one hundred sixty five dollars the fire division two thousand and fifteen save the symposium received two donations one from white house insurance group in the amount of one hundred fifty dollars and consumers energy in the moment in the amount of one thousand dollars it is recommended that these donations be accepted with appreciation and an expression of gratitude to be forwarded to the donors what is the pleasure of causes that people care about and give toward in the city and i also tonight in our discussion about snow melt by i think it's been about twenty years since ad prince passed away this week and it really in what greg said about the his presentation of asking for snow melt it at such a difficult time when the road was getting torn up and nobody had ever heard of it and that the whole downtown in its beauty and success is then the work of very many people dedicated over these decades but i i would  acknowledge the gift of up at prince to this community in his creativity is innovation in his vision for sustainability and using the power that's the heat that's already in the water from the power plant to begin a project like snow melt for our community and it is something that we will forever be grateful for here and it really puts holland on the map and all that we have of add prince besides the gifts to the community are his footprints his he never put up a statue wouldn't want a statue he was a background person that wanted to be a catalyst for us all right we have emotion too except with appreciation all in favor of doing so please say i post the same that passes thank you all right one final action item this evening and that is from the discovery center or to the outdoor discovery center project clarity appropriation brian please brief introduction on this if you would i thank you mr mayor the city council considered the budget last year requests from project clarity based on a funding formula for all communities in the region to assist with this twelve million dollar effort unprecedented for lake mack a towel benefit but really it's for the benefit of entire region because it's probably nothing other than jobs that i believe could benefit the area as much as a clean lake mecca tower so we looked at the wetland areas and the drainage and the sediment and the problems with phosphorous in the algae blooms and considered the options about what to do about it project clarity is a partnership involving these institutions as well as the neighboring communities and the conclusion is that with told me a dollar effort involving all of those communities there could be a huge difference made in our lifetime so the city's role would be to act on an agreement to provide for the first year of ten years of possible funding the amount invoice was ten sixty thousand dollars and subject to this agreement and the other communities are contributing similar amounts based on formula involving  their linear frontage as well as their population and other factors thank you should also be noted that seventy five percent of the twelve million comes from the private sector twenty five percent is coming from the various municipalities  so it's really you want to talk about private and public partnerships the triple p which gets overused in so many fashions this is one however where you can't help but seriously point out the fact that half in the private on the matter all right  ryan returned to you thank you for that build up mr mayor and i did i'm going to start the trailer music in just a moment i have three items and it doesn't quite feel like that build up the first one deals with the budget  their budget proposals this year as you know we were trying to be strategic in terms of the delivery of services and where there have been numerous cuts in years past just to make the ends meet we're trying to be sure to check in terms of making those services the very finest that they could possibly be that involves innovation we saw an example that tonight with the pool discussion you just had the central avenue project involves in line for get what's called it filtration to improve lake which is something we've never done before at least not in the scale and there's other innovation happening next study session you'll a parks and recreation and strategic plan it's something that we've been talking about for a few years we now have accomplished it's involved one quarter of the entire parks recreation and transportation teams  the conclusions will come due on march twenty fifth there's eighty nine recommendations as of right now and we're going to meet a couple more times make will be pared down but it's innovative and the team has been involved in that  the largest recommendation is to have two separate departments i think you probably heard that from me a few weeks ago rather than the combined one we did three years ago when do the leadership of any kenyan and brian  white but there is eighty eight other recommendations and it's timely because some of it involves budget and some strategic backfilling of personnel in a way that is intended to make our services as best as they possibly can be a continuous improvement so more to follow on that and the last thing i'd like to say and i think i know there dexter is has a plan here if so when he is done i would like to recognize the activities of the communications plan the cable t v social networking and all the innovation that has involved much of which has come from starting from council three years ago and map and i can well explain more about how it's coming about after ma with thank you many questions for ryan that let's go right to the last thing right i was talking about today the department public safety released their twenty fourteen annual report and report is on line in the city's website but they also made an introductory video summary of it working with their communications department and we thought that since the report was fresh since the news is outstanding we have a ten year low in terms of crime in this city and incidences and now the thing just went quiet try that again why don't we see if we can see the video helen department of public safety is pleased to release the enya report for tw fourteen there are several areas both police and fire services that are worth noting the report reflects more than statistical data and highlights the importance of crime in fire prevention we believe community engagement is the key to having a safe and welcoming community the police department saw an overall drop in police incidents in two thousand and fourteen compared to two thousand and thirteen with just under twenty thousand incidents serious and violent crimes declined by seven percent in tw fourteen compared to two thousand and thirteen juvenile arrests large decrease of nearly twenty percent in two thousand and fourteen community policing and outreach programs like the holland youth connections continue to have a positive influence for prevention and intervention the fire department has increased their call volume in two thousand and fourteen medical response is accounted for over half of these calls the number of fire inspections also rose more than fifty percent several public safety personnel were recognized for their lifesaving efforts in three separate incidents in two thousand and fourteen two patients in respiratory arrest and one in cardiac arrest all survived and are alive today as a result of their efforts there were over fourteen hundred traffic crashes in the city the report highlights where those high crash intersections are located the most common violations cited in these high traffic areas are speeding and fail to stop leading to a rear end collision police officers concentrate there in force when efforts in these high crash areas to promote safe driving the junior police academy and citizens police academy classes continue to provide great interaction in education for the community at no and fourteen volunteers and policing services were launched with ten participants these volunteers and forced parking violations and provide safety checks and observe and report suspicious activities the holon department of public safety provides both police and fire services to the citizens and visitors of the city of holland every day of the year utilizing full time part time and volunteer personnel our goal is to provide residents with excellent public safety so holland remains a safe place to live right apparently straight here on my monitor i can see it just fine for the dice matters not so much and i'm not sure about folks at home but it will be online if it's not already you can also search for it on the city's with page as well as the full written report you can always reach out to us via city upon dot com which of course is our website information about how to contact each member of council as well as a senior staff and all sorts of information about the city things you can find out about not have to come into city hall take care of certain aspects of business can also be conducted on line as well so we want to hear community out the good thing about that and the thing that makes our jobs easier is there's so much positive information in this community that we have no shortage of things we can cover their communications group is really big it's all relatively new as you know  v has been in house just for a couple years back has been new in the position for about six months now and those folks are jelling to see the creative juices flow and how they operate in the neat things that they're able to do with video and social media is really were awarding for me in my position so i give them all the credit and i give all of you all the credit for continuing to support the idea of cable television and communications to our our constituents so it's a great thing and i don't want to overshadow the report here you know crime being atenolol a ten year low in our community is a really a testament to our public safety folks and that is just absolutely wonderful this community thank you ma'am all right communications members of council tonight anybody have any emotions or resolution well then sadly we have only one thing left to do and that is