good evening ladies and gentlemen welcome to our slightly delayed business meeting we had a very full pretty council meeting so it took us a little longer to get through everything so i asked the clerk to please call the roll to make sure that we have a quorum thank you their devor here meeting of the first as a prayer which is evening will be delivered by council member nancy deplore and that will be followed by the pledge of allegiance i would invite all of you who are able to stand and join us in those two items this and wavering and without hypocrisy pray that you will grant us that kind of wisdom as we make decisions for this city as we know you would like it to be a city on the hill thank you for the hard work that has gone before us for the many good hearted people that have done so much to make this a wonderful place to live i think especially the house to her this past week where we saw the fruits of all the work of the partners of renewal of the taking root ministries jubilee and home corps as they help people with new futures and the skills they redid the homes and neighborhoods we thank you for all that work and for heart like that that gives back to our community we pray father that you will help us in this day to be ambassadors of goodwill to care for those around us to show your love and h be the people that what others will look back on and say they did their best for our community in your name we pray be routine but have been discussed and  if however one of the items that will be announced for the consent agenda is something they used pacifically came to address council about we will give you the opportunity to ask for that item to be removed from the c consent agenda and any items that are removed from the consent agenda will be considered in their regular place on the agenda but in order to find out what that is could we have the clerk please give us a summary of what is on the consent agenda tonight thank you item five is to reprove the minutes of the august fifth regular and closed meetings and the august twelfth two thousand and fifteen study session item eleven a to accept and file oaths of office from various boards and commissions item fourteen a one to approve a facility encroachment agreement with c s transportation incorporated for the ninth street reconstruction project including payment of the associated encroachments and railroad protective liability fees of one thousand one hundred twenty five dollars ending approval as wonder where software for a not to exceed contract cost of one hundred forty seven thousand dollars pending approval was to form by the city attorney item fourteen eighty four to approve the transfer for contingency of six thousand dollars for the engineering and installation of six new potential transformers at industrial substation increasing the project budget from twenty thousand to twenty six thousand dollars item fourteen a five to approve the acceptance of grant easements as prepared by the city attorney for the building of the natural gas pipeline and one hundred  thirty eight k v interconnect line for the holland energy park and fourteen a six to approve a contract with d c buyers company of grand rapids michigan and the total amount of two hundred  twenty three thousand eight hundred thirty one dollars for the service center brick remediation pending approval as deformed by the city attorney i'm forty eight a seven to prove a contract with moran ironworks incorporated for the unit six exhaust plenum and diffuser replacement in the amount of two hundred four thousand six hundred dollars along with a contingency of twenty one thousand dollars to cover remedial additions that may be discovered pending city attorney approval was due for item fourteen d two to appoint mayor of and of us as delegate and council member at large to bore as alternate to attend the m n your convention to be held in traverse city missouri at the park place hotel on september sixteenth through the eighteenth two thousand and fifteen item fourteen d three to accept a grant from the h a v a funds for the purchase of fifteen eighty a voting booths in the amount two thousand six hundred fifty and to instruct the deputy clerk to complete and submit the necessary paperwork to the bureau of election by september thirtieth two thousand and fifteen item fourteen d four to approve the appointments of karen bastion employed elegant and chanda shaab cried oh general city human resources director  officer delegate to attend the murders annual meeting of two over eighth and ninth two thousand and fifteen item fourteen d five to approve the two thousand and fifteen public lodging license for the economy  with conditions established by the community a neighborhood services department item fourteen he two point two two a prove the bid submitted by brenner excavating incorporated to provide a construction crew at a rate of forty two hundred dollars per day to make necessary and repairs to the storm sewer culverts undersell us or drive to authorize a purchase order in the amount of forty eight thousand four hundred thirty dollars and authorize staff to procure other material and services in support of the project than estimated total cost of sixty eight thousand four hundred thirty dollars with funds to be allocated from the street improvement fund item three point one to approve the purchase of a toral workman h d x utility vehicle from spartan distributors at a cost of twenty one thousand two hundred seventy three dollars and fifty one cents for use in the parks department to be paid from the centralised vehicle equipment found item fourteen easy for point one to accept a grant in the amount of seven hundred fifty dollars from the ottawa county health department for youth tobacco compliance checks item fourteen eve five point three to approve  license agreement was sherburne properties l l c for the installation of four canopy roofs or on ngs at skip's pharmacy seven hundred michigan avenue fourteen eve five point four to approve the reclas ication of the director of finance treasurer assessor clerk from c m b to c m a fourteen eve five point five two approve the reclassification of the assessing administrator from c m c c m b and fourteen eef i point six two accept the investment grade sixty percent report and authorize schneider electric proceed to complete a ninety percent audit report with inclusion of councils preferred options noted in said report i stand corrected i hear i should know better thank you all right you've heard the extensive consent agenda that's before us this evening is anyone in the audience who would like to have an item removed so that you can make comment about it this is your opportunity we would only ask that you would come forward to the probe state your name and address for the record and indicate which item you would like to be removed and then it will be removed and dealt with in its normal position on the agenda so anybody that would like an item removed from the consent of agenda in the audience five the public lodging license so you know it and it will come up in its regular position all right having heard those amendments and withdrawals of items what is the pleasure of council on the remaining items on the consent agenda motion t appreciation and a welcome to the new members are you handling this wonderful thank you so we're here again once again this year  introduce to the city council the new members for the youth advisory council and i'm just to give you a few brief numbers we will have fifty seven students as your total count on that's on the core council subcommittees and i do have all of the positions and then some filled on our youth on boards this year first time ever and so out of the fifty seven students that we have we are welcoming twenty and and then out of those twenty seven new kiddos we've got fifteen the youth on boards that are new out of about the twenty positions that i have an youth on board we have a lot of new students that will be coming sitting with the adults on the adult boards and commissions a share so that's very exciting because they will be learning a lot about how city government works in in holland here and then we have twelve new students that are sitting on the youth advisory council subcommittees that's the recreation social services and special events so i'd like to enter duce first the students that are on these boards and commissions and then after that i'd like to thank the students that have graduated and we have fifteen students  that have graduated this year that will be saying goodbye to that are going off to better bigger and better things so after we introduce new ones we'll say thank you to the graduates so first of all i'd like to call up the cor highland from inside city limits kim also could be here tonight choose an eleventh grader holly christian and she was on a board and she'll continue to be on an adult ward but she's also going to be encore this coming year counsel and they are overseeing all of the subcommittees and everything that everybody else is doing so welcome to you so you can see and then come back up again after christian nate harder could be here today but he is also on the west michigan or port authority and he'll be in eleventh grade a high school and then zachary babies is also on the west michigan airport authority so we have three kids on west michigan airport authority this year and zach will be in eleventh grade at home christian sara program will be on the downtown development authority and she'll be a senior at holland christian and just so you know i have had more han christian students this year apply which is a very exciting because i've always had a real hard time getting holland christian to be interested so it's really exciting that we have this is most christian kids that we've had on the council this year so it's great  the human relations commission and she'll be in eleventh grade at home christian sam will be on the human relations commission as well joining aliyah and he'll be in tenth grade at black river and i believe in both of their parents served on boards for us for the city so they their last names might be from a new guy gasp will be on the neighborhood improvement committee and he will be in eleventh grade at black river  me american will be also be joining him in the neighborhood improvement committee and she'll be eleventh grade a high  and then jasmine martinez she will be on the police community relations as well as core this year and she'll be in tenth grade then grettir will be on the sustainability committee and he'll be in the eleventh grade at home christian so these are kids serving the new ones that will be serving on the adult boards and commissions so we've got a good good group of kids joining the dot boards t you guys can have a seat and then i'm going to introduce now the kids that will be sitting on the subcommittees for the you council and first the special events committee mckenna bigelow will be joining the special events she'll be a junior high  committee this year joining the social services committee as friends francesco he'll be a sophomore black river than abby will be a sophomore at west ottawa will be a sophomore at west ottawa dialer lynch is a junior at black river in addie pansy is a sophomore at west ottawa so these three will be joining the recommend and i have the largest subcommittees this year i pad hopefully i have a bit off more than i can you and then last but not least we want to give a big thank you to our kids who are graduating and it's always sad for me to see these kids go because you always wonder if we're going to get as good a replacements as some of these kids have been so they're just they've always amazed and impressed me and every year i know they always do so clara baker will be leaving us i don't know maybe they can say a little something about where they're going to get him to talk services and she also sustainability committee in mcknight was encore and also planning commission and what are your plans next year i'm going to count college at nine am tomorrow special events committee so wake him was on the special events committee and aaron shiling was on the special events committee then we're losing susan fender and joey is always jurgensen and they were both and social services for us to the university of michigan to study computer science and marching the michigan marching band so go blue next year order and then diana hernandez and angelica rosabelle served on the human relations commission and these gals are our two best friends like two peas in a pod and they been with us for several years and both joined us the same time for the h r c and have been faithful faithful board members there done way more than i think any you know a lot of kids prior have done and then oh yeah what are your going to fare state university hoping to get in the middle medical school meet michael sam deval served on the police community relations and i don't think so anyways thank you guys and the ones that can be here so much for your service charge community and it's just a there any thing anybody wants to say before we well we certainly want to thank our departing i act members of your contribution over the last few years has been greatly appreciated and  we trust us to use your experience to go on and do great things in other places for a while and then come back and do great things here at holland and to the new members you're in for a great experience and we appreciate the that you're going to make and behalf of our community as well so we hope you have a great year thank you for the students and their families their eyes do ice cream social after this so we will be dismissing and i'm incorporated at ten twenty one he's fortieth street start out with a report from steph thank you mr mayor members of the city council tonight it is a public hearing and action on  exemption for new of are located at one zero two one east fortieth street for land and building improvements in amount of two point nine million dollars as is my practice i really value the opportunity to visit these industrial facilities and show you what's either in process or has been done in this case here is the new building i think it's a forty forty five thousand square foot addition which will house a number of staff up to thirty including fourteen new positions and it is up look it up before the street as i indicated i enjoyed speaking to mark kiper he was here tonight as well and and will be available to answer questions about the business it's essentially started in one thousand nine hundred nine with zero employees and no customers and and up with one employee and one customer and has ground significantly from there and you can see a little bit of the history on the screen up to one hundred twenty five members now they do contract manufacturing with all of the most of the large manufacturers and have an opportunity and capability there to realize products via development management supply chain and continuous improvement methodology s so here are some of the products that they have a manufactured or seen that they've been manufactured i ended up sitting in the conference room on a chair that felt as like it was suspended in there is pretty amazing so  the initial product that they first began producing was for herman miller and it's these medical cabinets which they still produce and as well as the other items noted there so with that the recommendation is that the city council approved industrial facility texas action with move our for up to twelve years and that this as you know produces an opportunity to reduce taxes by fifty percent in terms of the valuation of but it's a glass half full because this new forty five thousand square foot addition plus the four thousand new jobs is the outcome for the city of holland behalf of the applicant we would be happy to hear from you he asked that you come forward to the podium state your name and residential address for the record and you have up to five minutes so any one wishes to make any statement about the second facility we have in town hundred twenty five team members and really really it's a testament to the hard work of the team it's it's you know we've got to the point where it's big enough now that without all the team members and all the hard work that they do none of this this would have happened so counsel have any questions for me any questions for the applicant looks like the sky is the limit for the types of products you down yeah it really is we started off doing the medical cards for herman miller and got connected with steel case in the late eighty's ninety's and started doing work for and got connected with izzy a few years ago we actually do all of the seeding product for a company out of kansas city called kramer seeding so all good if there's a lot on our player right now and there's a lot of potential work out there to thank you so you are hard workers who come through  actually appeared in our current package but i believe it's some questions that are typically asked by the by the review committee well i guess i would say no really i like that in the packet it gave a lot of information and  eight zero thank you the brings us to item twelve communications from the audience if there is anyone in the audience who wishes to address the council on an item that is not on the agenda later on this is your opportunity again the standard rules of golf supply step forward to the podium state your name and residential address and you have five minutes to tell us what you'd like us to hear all right that brings us down to you mayor and members a city council for those in the audience and those who may be watching on t v tonight let me introduce myself my name is joe di i'm the interim director of community and neighborhood services before city council tonight as a recommendation that you approve a two thousand and fifteen public lodging license for the economy and i would like to step back and give counsel and those in the audience just a brief history on why we're here this evening on june third two thousand and fifteen city council upheld the recommendation of the clerk's office to deny the renewal license for the public lodging at the economy and which is located at four o nine u s thirty one northbound the clerk's recommendation was based on some reports from the community neighborhood services office as it related to several code violations that we found at the economy and during one of our inspections since june inspectors from community neighborhood services has been working with the property owner to correct this code violations and most importantly the plumbing system has been completely upgraded so we no longer have issues of scalding hot water shooting off through the showers the cleanness of each room has been addressed security concerns with video cameras and so forth have been addressed and we're now at a position where the inspectors and the department directors of community neighborhood services are comfortable coming to the city council and recommending that you approve the public lodging license for the economy and a lso i'd like to point out that the owner of the property and mr emmett patel is in the audience this evening so if counsel has questions directly of him he is available to you know answer any questions you may have part of the recommendation assistant director upstairs has the opportunity to go look at the condition of the stairs going upwards we had some concerns with the lack of risers protection or risers protection on the back of the stairs as well as the height of the handrails we've been informed by our inspectors that they've made progress and they've met our concerns we've heard from the property owner of that they've met our concerns however city and i would like just like to see that with our own eyes tomorrow so the recommendation tonight is that you approve the public lodging license however the condition is that only the first floor units can be rented out and that the second floor units can be rented once department directors and yasmin and myself approved of the stairs going up to the second floor questions the city council has to be just to be clear the jewel if you and cindy are planning on going over there tomorrow correct so it's possible that once you've seen that and you are satisfied you can give them them all these repairs were done by a licensed contractor with all permits both these repairs are done by a licensed contractor at all permits pulled and in conjunction with city staff upstairs that specifically trisha dryer and are plumbing inspector gary hoover had discussions at length with the plumber they hired the other repairs that they had to take care of were mostly meat that don't require permit or one question i just don't know how to ask it in our previous dealings with the other end of the parking lot the first go around with this the reserve subcontractor a manager if you will name escapes me was  gentleman involved in this go around at this point by subcontractor are you referring to a person doing the work he was maybe it's more a question for the owners  i can't remember the jones name i can picture him he was the manager that was going to get everything wrapped up in  situation our our interaction through this process and i can only really speak about this process right now was with the property owner had met you may recall at the june third meeting they did have  legal counsel here representing them we met with a different legal counsel after that which was a very pleasant very productive meeting on us being very clear on what needed to be changed at the motel for us to change our recommendation that was my all accounts a very successful you know connection between our office and their new legal representation as well as with the plumber who was able to more or less upgrade the entire piping system you know from the south end to the north end of that property we did receive one phone call from the property owner to the south or to property owners to the south the wooden chew motel which we had issues with but we only had a phone call from that person we had no other interaction from by all accounts it was him but that really took the bull by the horns more the say on this project to get it to get it to a place where we are comfortable recommending that the place be reopened two weeks ago it was going in myself we went in then we probably our inspectors inspected every room cindy and i probably spot check close to forty percent of the rooms just walking down and opening doors and walking in you know randomly picking groups from what we could tell the quality of the rooms now compared to what they were as night and day that everything isn't totally completed we talked about workmanship i think of rental properties for residents in order to very minor things looks like it's ready to go so i guess i would prefer that no rooms be rented until all rooms are ready stairways in that inspection with trisha two weeks ago so that was an item that we tacked on to the list after the facts out it wasn't like they knew about the stairway or stairwell issue two months ago this is something that we kind of tacked on at the end when we said you know if we're going to do this we need to do it right and then staff had a you know a spirited debate on the difference between building codes and what the height of a you know handle has to be and what a riser has to be and the property maintenance code which is what we approve public lodging license under this hotel was constructed x amount of years ago the built in an actual voting card which we fall under has been amended and changed since that time we can't go one for two months thank you for their clarification their guard though for all intents and purposes they were out of business so they're starting over again why does the newco not coming to put the property mean it's code comes into play but that building code that structure is still grandfather so there are still issues with end that structure we can't go in and make them come all the way up to that new building code what triggers the new ownership i would defer to corporate counsel on that one sorry r be new construction or a major renovation not the repairs that they're talking about here in addition or something that's  entity and therefore i'm more inclined to see us wait to see the full project room for repairs completed again i understand two weeks but at the same time  c it seems as though they have done what we asked them to do the only thing that's missing is the confirmation from cindy and joel's this it but our inspector has said that the stairs do fulfill what they were asked to do after they were given the original list rachel the report received from our building inspector de entirely this afternoon that you know for fifty eight when he got back was it looks good to me towards cindy responded and i agree with cindy osmond we need to go see with her isaac specially since it was sent the you know through her eyes the building official for the city of holland identified them as a concern there in our inspection you know we can have two weeks ago so our senior our voting is better then i say they're going to go are voting officials just saying i do this here with my own eyes and we're going out tomorrow to see them with our own eyes the property owner you know patel just came up and told me they're done so i think there when we go out tomorrow afternoon or tomorrow morning we're going to agree they're done but we do need to see this with our own eyes right so it's not that they have dragged their feet in doing what we've asked them to do they have fulfilled that we asked them to do you just have to confirm the steps which were added two weeks ago correct so it seems reasonable to me to pass the says  recommended and all we need is a confirmation tomorrow if there is no confirmation tomorrow then to stick to all the rooms upstairs that are ready to rent will not be able to rent until the stairs  seems like a reasonable compromise to me at this point in completely finished i was not of a mind to issue any kind of occupancy here or issue a license to operate what i've learned since the time i was a couple of hours at that for all intents and purposes and practicality of things that we've asked the owners to repair and have comply with have essentially been done while worse waiting on hearing is a confirmation from two very involved it's to make sure that this is indeed the fact which is a lot of all really so i believe that with an establishment like this and i would venture to bet that my colleagues would whoever resides there deserves a safe and healthy environment in which to sleep and spend a little time there that's our concern that has been our concern i believe from the get go continues to be  concern and i believe the owners of the establishment understand that and have complied at least to a certain level of standards to meet that expectation that continues to be our expectation and i'm certain that those who need to get that message are receiving it so i'm going to go ahead with the recommendation to see any further discussion like mr mayor unfortunately i wish i could share dave's sentiment in that but i cannot this is not the first time we've been here as i understand this owner is the same owner that was there three years ago correct me if i'm wrong thirty six months ago we were at the same place thirty six months ago the owner was told that there would be no tolerance thirty six months ago we gave a second chance that second chance basically got thrown back in our face because compliance was not he this is a gateway into the city you are representing the city of holland we have visitors coming to your place of employment your ownership the place that you own it doesn't represent the city very well unfortunately i can not support this had the initiative been taken the first time to not be here again everything would be well and good we gave you one chance i told your your important thing to do here moment is to to clarify the the motion because the motion is to to adapt the recommendation and there's a difference between the recommendation in the report and what mr di indicated here so i think it's important to clarify that distinction the report indicates that it's by the second floor not used until ha three stairways are completely rebuilt to the listed in the current building code and as i hear mr di the report was the recommended condition at this point is that the second floor not be allowed to be used until the inspection is passed with department of community neighborhood services i think we need to make sure we clarify what recommendation is has been adopted under the motion i'm assuming it's mr guy's recommendation but i think it should be clear for the record if i mean my understanding was the recommendation was to approve with conditions of his conditions being him an and i think the motel did line around their second chance and i think they did meet and they did fulfill what they were asked to do the only thing that changed was two weeks ago cindy discovered steps that weren't good enough and added that to the list for the motel to fix which they did fix according to our inspector the only thing we need the confirmation of the head of that heart which i do deeply respect and it needs to go to that level but i don't know why we don't trust the motel to have fulfilled what they're supposed to fulfill when every box has been checked for every room the only thing left is the confirmation of the steps which dan said is all are ok so all we need is cindy  there and say the steps are ok and everything has both been fulfilled that we asked at the beginning can do more with the steps from two weeks ago that they were asked to also redo completely rebuilt certainly understanding what you're saying nancy but i don't think you're understanding what i'm saying i guess that they fulfilled everything that we asked them to do this time i don't care if the steps were two weeks ago six weeks ago whatever the case may be we told him thirty six months ago when we were at the same position that there would be no tolerance thirty six months later we're exactly the same place they were two months ago when they started cleaning up their jobs cleaning it up but why did we have again we did it thirty six months ago so now they come back and in it's back in the deplorable condition it was thirty six months ago and now we're saying well ok you came back and you fixed everything up and did every everything's go be a better result no that's not the way it works we should they should not have to be back here yet we should not be going through this again that that is inexcusable what is your recommendation that  recommendation is that they permit a close yes absolutely at the very least they do not get their li procedurally at this point we are voting to authorize the clerk to issue the license correct they are not currently have a licen court to issue that license if this motion passes once the application is made tomorrow how long does it take for the clerk process that and actually is that it be done very quickly if the motion passes ok so it's entirely possible that if if it takes a day or several days that by the time  license is actually issued and they are able to go back into the business of renting rooms that we will already have the verification from our staff that everything is  as it should be correct and your packet is already application for the license upon action tonight and verification by sending tomorrow if it's an affirmative tonight then that license  believe is issued immediately by the clerk's office all right we're ready to vote all right i would imagine that this will be back to us in two weeks once the confirmation has been established as a so the way that we see it happening yes all right thank you take three ok there we go yes thank you mayor van de vos the and city council for allowing you some time on your agenda to talk to you about the downtown strategic plan update extending the vision last year downtown staff stakeholders which included a wide variety of stakeholders from the p s g board the downtown development authority board property owners just interested stakeholders that have been involved over many decades in downtime hons evolution begin the process of up dating the downtown strategic plan the previous version sharpening the vision the intention of updating that plan was to affirm the vision for downtown holland develop a list of specific downtown priorities assist the down town hall and boards and staff in developing a new a work plan and providing the city of holland staff and planning commission with recommendations for downtown holland as it relates to updating the city's master plan which is currently underway extending the vision is a strategic planning report an implementation process that builds upon a pastor to ship planning afterwards in order to continue our efforts to be the best small down town in america during the past twenty five years downtown holland has established itself as one of the nation's premier community centers and with the commitment of the downtown stakeholders and city leadership will continue to thrive for generations to come the document summarizes our strategic plan priorities in key principles and sustaining downtown hound success in addition to our ongoing new in dealey programatic efforts to achieve our vision the following strategic priorities have been identified as key areas of focus for downtown over the next year ensure that existing streetscape and snow mel is well maintained and has expanded were most appropriate identify redevelopment opportunities for key priorities throughout the downtown in the western gateway and waterfront corridors and these sites included are not limited to the highland civic center the james young power plant in western tool actively with private developers and significant commercial mixed use projects partner with the holland court of public works to further investigate district energy and determine plans for expanding snow melt practically manage public parking and explore new capacity throughout the downtown cultivate opportunities to incorporate our water and fire into the downtown streets cape and private development projects and collaborate with the holland board of public works and how entire township to create a mutually plan for the eastern gateway and we are recommending that city council approve extending the vision the updated downtown strategic plan for use in developing in your goals work plans and programming and support development with within downtown holland i want to take a moment as well just to go through a few of the sections and pages that are in the report for the audience this evening and for those that will be viewing this later the document really gives a highly an overview of past strategic planning efforts in downtown holland of which there have been many and we've been following a vision that's been set for some time now and really this document attempts to capture how we intend to extend that vision beyond kind of the core area of downtown how we continue to revitalize that area but also extend some of the principles into the rest of the downtown and you can see on the screen here that there are a number of priority initiatives that are either just beginning or are underway or we envision to happen soon throughout downtown there are about a dozen that have been identified and there's several others that will i'm sure in the very near future pop up as opportunities present themselves the i wanted to take a few minutes just to explain kind of the how we work how we've gotten to where we've gone and where we been and one of the there's been a few key principles in the success of downtown including the importance of establishing a vision in keeping that vision front and center and all the things that we do as we continue to work in the public sector but also the private sector and working with our property owners the importance of establishing innovative long term strategies in taking short term tactics making sure that every day where we're taking steps to work towards the  grander vision that we have for downtown the importance of public private partnerships have really been essential to downtown success as many in this room have been a part of and that certainly is well the process that's used in doing that has really been critical to our success throughout the document what we've done is we've taken each kind of subway or area of downtown if you will and there are five of them and we have identified some key initiatives for those particular areas i won't go through each one of them but we'll highlight a few of the and these are also intended to be helpful as kind of take away terror always when we work with private developers to put it front and center in front of them understanding that it's a lot of material and information to digest we were hopeful that we'd be able to pull out specific sections so that it's really a user friendly document something that is actively used in and certainly doesn't sit on the shelf and that we use actively so in downtown  center the court or street primarily between river and columbia we have identified the importance of broadening the product offerings and cluster and diversity of goods so ensuring that we continue to stand top of the business mix that's in the downtown and making sure that we have appropriate mix of restaurants retail and office businesses that they complement one another and are meeting the demand that's present in our downtown and from visitors in our region and we've identified the connection to the waterfront as really critical both in subtle ways and larger ways wanting to find ways to represent our water  connection in many different ways both visually and physically in the downtown on a street even though it's not right next door it's not too far and we want to make sure that that's represented throughout our downtown another is broadening the year round events activities and amenities that occur in downtown and having a thorough evaluation of those activities and making sure that we continue to have world class events and activities for people to enjoy and that it reaches a diverse group in population enhancing the connections to transitions between downtown in the downtown neighborhoods making sure that there is ease of access between downtown in the neighborhoods that surround the downtown and recognize the important role that they both play one another customer first parking stablish ing excuse me  making sure that we continue to promote the idea of customers first when establishing our parking program the importance of parking to our downtown as really infrastructure to support our  businesses and their success and then pay attention to the street and the customer experience so does both daily and ongoing efforts to make sure that our downtown is user friendly and friendly and that we are implementing projects that continue to enhance the street environment a couple other areas that i'll touch upon the western gateway in future waterfront on a broader scale and we go into great detail this particular section but examining the mix use redevelopment opportunities and we've identified a number of areas where that we have lots of opportunity for mixed use projects and i'll talk about the santa ana moment but housing in particular as as a potential opportunity but also appropriate commercial activity as well to enhance that but also to complement the strengths that we have within in downtown now  so we take it essentially block by block block in this area is everything west essentially of river avenue when we're talking about the western gateway and we also touch upon traffic movement and the importance of a valuating the current modes of transportation but how visitors and our community accesses this particular area so there has been a suggestion as well looking at the traffic movement in regards to whether one way or two way traffic is is something that we want to continue with moving forward and then the third larger bucket if you will is pedestrian character in continuing to enhance a in this area of downtown we also take a look at some focused topic areas as we continue to grow and downtown one of those is what we're calling downtown d n a and making sure that we're evaluating  what the d n a of downtown is what is it today and what should it be moving forward a lot of the renovation revitalization of downtown has been focused on our existing building stock and we're getting into areas where we're seeing infill development and the ability to add new buildings to downtown so we really encourage in this particular document that some time spent on evaluating our current scale and what we might recommend moving forward as it relates to scale and city and downtown to make sure that we do have new buildings complementing our existing buildings but certainly not necessarily falsely replicating our existing  downtown as we continue to grow and then secondly a focus on downtown parking and that's mentioned common thread throughout many of the sections of the document of the strategic plan but this provides a little more detail on some recommendations for looking at potential strategies and actions formed in the parking system in downtown and you can see on this next slide just for commons conversation looking at some options for where we might see some additional parking moving forward another focus topic areas housing we see definitely a lot of opportunity for housing in our downtown in a variety of of building formats as well  we really experience tremendous excuse me a lot of a lot of housing right now is completely filled in and as soon as something is empty it fills right back up so we see just anecdotally a lot of demand but we have also had the housing tard market analysis done to look at certain building types and there is a tremendous amount of demand in the downtown and greater holland city but especially in downtown so we want to take a closer look at how we work with the private sector and increasing the amount of housing that's in downtown focusing as well on character and compatibility with existing buildings what amenities we would include or encourage and certainly the density how dense do we want the housing to be in downtown and we're starting to see some interest in housing in this area pulled from community developers but also from outside of the city as well and this next graphic just gives an indication again for conversation where we see some potential above commercial some new buildings that might be residential in nature and some rehab of existing buildings and single family homes that are on the edge of downtown certainly by no means prescriptive just giving some suggestion of where we could see some housing in the downtown and certainly there's opportunities for other locations as well and here just a quick flip through these just housing examples types of excuse homes which currently we don't have directly in the core of downtown and the multifamily residential opportunities none of these images are intended to imply that we want to replicate exactly an existing image but just give some sort of indication of what we're talking about when we're talking about these building types and then moving forward the final section of the document focuses on sub area vision maps as what we call them in this is an exploration section intended to encourage dialogue or not prescriptive and they should be considered conceptual distance by your thinking and discussion about specific sites throughout the downtown and so a few of these that i'll just touch upon is excuse me the pillar church block here you can see for instance we started to get in some suggestions about potentially a change in  parking line or building some new buildings that are being suggested maybe you are at least for conversation you'll notice as you look through the document in a lot of the corners we focus on both buildings but also on different well but really taking a closer look at a whole block when we're not just talking about a specific site and working with property owners on a block by block basis to look at the entirety of of the entire block and then each one of these pages we also have just some suggested or potential next steps again none of this is prescriptive in terms of these explorations but encourage trying to encourage dialogue and creative thinking about these these blocks and sites the chamber block we have to give names that's not necessarily the chamber takes up the whole block but a couple different versions of different ideas for discussion about not only the chamber site itself or the existing west coast chamber sits suggesting maybe some  new buildings but also reconfigurations and and some shifting of where parking is and some of these so that there's more of an emphasis on parking on the back side of the street versus the front side of a street  so there's some suggestions there at looking at the configuration of buildings as it stands right now and looking for ways to improve and set the tone for higher entering into downtown from chicago drive another option is looking at town homes a cost from the post office a couple different versions in this block as well and looking at some of the ideas that have been presented about housing options in this particular block and then on eighth and ninth street from river to pine some suggestions or ideas about opportunities for redevelopment commercial mix use opportunities and maybe some potential synergy between this block and the civic center block looking for ways to increase connectivity walkability between the two and identifying some opportunities for redevelopment in this particular area and then this continues on into the western gateway as well with some mixed use redevelopment opportunities presented here potential growth and a few ideas here kind of backing up higher level view  more than just a block but a whole section in the northern gateway here just looking at some sites what we've turned to susceptible to change and also some opportunities to expand the green connection that we have with the greenway there up to the north so that's our document and in a nutshell it's a very brief overview of what we're recommending and will help we hope will help guide us as we develop our is a study in your goals and our work plans and we're excited to keep the momentum moving forward and work with both the public and private sector to implement a lot of these projects and hopefully we start generating some conversation and get some big ideas out on the table and keep things moving forward for damn time holland you guys have any questions downtown how essentially my whole life i went to lincoln school which isn't there anymore replaced but beautiful building and homes campus i'm astounded at how well we have been able to marshal resources not just  city we've always had excellent city staff but we've always been blessed with with i think a piece of an intangible and that's people who have lived in our community that we could draw from who had areas of expertise  enough in our community about our community to stay here and really take what has become i think something pretty special i mean if you look around the country i think we've one of words for national one of the best down towns in america and it just it doesn't happen and i just want to commend the community for coming up with a vision some time ago twenty years ago and creating a framework that we have stuck to built upon to find us where we are today to have this kind of document this kind of dreaming and from where i said i know of some things that are going to happen in a downtown in the next five years that are going to forward i have no doubt with the people around the table that we will so i know that these documents probably barely get read by the citizens in the community i know the people who we want to come into our commune and be part of it and develop it and be there and help us carry it forward certainly pay a lot of attention to that but it's a lot of work on your part i think you guys two of you in the community in our city staff in the great welcomes of the world in the bill johnsons of the world and all the folks in the background that continually did no judge create think collaborate invest all of those things just seem to happen it doesn't just happen it's coordinated and i'm just stunned at how well this community has done in the fifty seven years that i've lived here and i know there's a lot of really exciting stuff on the drawing board so credit you and the community and all the stuff for these kinds of great visually because we're you guys are merging down a great way so thank you for it really tells you that no downtown is an island where young just think of five stories and call that downtown dewey has the vision for downtown gets bigger and bigger and we have been blast with water near us and the greenway around us and a college among us and churches and all all of that is amazing and i think of  quote every time he sends in a home corps report it's that it's a long obedience in the same direction and i think they have been very many people to jay's point to have been willing to leave their own agenda their own whatever at the door and come together to do the best for the community not just today but long term and when people come here to develop they don't get a blank piece of paper it has a frame work on it it has loving hands around it and and that is a strong message that really puts the the beauty the structure the framework the security the  foundation in a city that has a lot to celebrate from those that came before us and for us to be faithful to it because i see the sea of it says in unity is our strength god be with us and we know without a vision the people perish so it is really important for us to keep planning to keep focusing on ahead not to sit on our laurels but to continue to work together and put the blood sweat and tears into it and it takes to listen to all the different sides and work to come up with a solution that's better than anything any one of us could come up with in our own little world but together we can do something so much better so much bigger and it's not like office activity do we see downtown as a space for larger offices nothing beyond the retail bank you know in one particular headquarters of a bank or had until they merge with that organization do we see downtown is that place rick can we entice does this master plan help us entice headquarters of businesses not talking will answer is yes ok right i mean that that's the goal one of the goals i mean we want to be the hub the center of activity and we need to do do additional things to make it so look for opportunities and it is more than a small office we've in fact that's that specific idea has come up of what can we do more of to attract a headquarters and something of that that appeal or that effect so yes that definitely is one of the objectives we need to make sure that we're listening to what it is that they need we have so many of the things that i think are necessary but there's probably some some other things that will put us over the top for it to be an absolute no brainer and make sure we have the right infrastructure so that they can do business well we have the quality of life to attract and make sure that they attract quality talent but we need to make sure that we stay ahead of the curve to make sure that we also have the right tools and resources they need i think we have the bulk of it but there's a few things that you know we're working on baseballs for me but you know something else that comes up in this kind of broader master plan you allude to it with park downtowns connectivity with the water we were seeing an increased amount of activity from the water right we we had the cruise ship in the promus was in sunday and monday and it was another one came in today but it came in today to give up the idea that it's sunday and wednesday  what is it what is i guess what is the potential for expanding that not in terms of tourist purely but using the water as an opportunity for expanded travel to other parts of the midwest  i mean can can we look are we looking at this in a broad perspective that says ok well let's really create a commercial marina that can can use our connectivity to the rest of michigan as an advantage the rail lines the the the bus lines i mean that seems like a potential opportunity that we kind of touch on in this master plan but be expanded little bit more  locations you're not anywhere near civilization or a beautiful downtown retail area as i'm wondering we use our assets in this plan to to think about that right definitely and that comes in to the next level or layer of implementation strategy base you know what are we doing to further those objectives and what are the detail work plans a go come with them to make them happen with real timelines and real steps we do have that as a as a component of this is where we're headed so you know it's just it's working the plan you know it's a you said it's touched upon and now it's at smelling up our sleeves and making it happen  thank you can't wait get this real quick i really like your collection of photographs of places and how places that you brought in here but what really caught my intriguing is the is the drawings of the maps  way first of all i apologize to the brother for moshing ahead of your question my bad hour i really enjoyed reading through this report and i appreciate your taking the time and effort my colleagues spoke so well you know to this what came to mind as i was thinking about this was is a book that jim collins roll call from good to great and one of the things that he talks about is that communities organizations don't mess certainly tain greatness because they're satisfied with being good a community might have great schools because they're good schools or you know government might not be great because it's just good well i think a lot of what needs to be said has already been said that i can't resist emphasising the fact that having a downtown of this quality is a lot of work a lot of work to get the opportunity to constantly for people to come to our downtown stop in our offices and say hi this is great how do you do it and they expect a little formula that they can take back home with them and work on for a couple of months in the office and they're going to have a world class doubt until but doesn't work that way folks we are now extending the vision which was which is the successor to sharpening the vision which was the successor to was it casting the vision from the public sector from the private sector from the community service sector towards making this not only this downtown because as the downtown goes the whole city goes really so this is something that i think we can really be proud of the amount of work that gets done by our citizens and our staff to create an atmosphere in an environment with a level of quality of life that we enjoy is a true blessing and thanks to everybody who is participating in that also relating to john talent possibilities mr what yes good evening mayor friend of us in council members tonight before you we have a traffic related  item transportation related item that also involves to some extent a project that we're planning in the future and that is night street construction scheduled for next year that project next year basically represents the culmination of some pretty significant snow melt work in the city to get things geared up for the new power generating facility so a critical part project a proposal that staff has requested from your s corporation to review downtown traffic patterns if i can just move ahead and you know if we were to do some changes to roadways you know what kind of effect that would have and obviously we're we're very mindful of what the downtown area is trying to do we want to try and help facilitate the vision if you will and so your s basically came up with a proposal to look at the whole of downtown from a traffic pattern standpoint they want to head and broke that down into three different tasks task one basically involves looking at the downtown traffic patterns between the in river avenue primarily seventh the night street  task to basically takes that work and extends it from ben royalty all the way to the east end of downtown where eighth and ninth street merge where the new power gen rating facility is going to be located  and then test three also takes a look at the north south traffic movements particularly pine and river avenue so what we've basically done with established timelines for each of those tasks task one we believe your us is going to be able to get that accomplished by late september early october this year and we hope to be able to incorporate most of what they come up with recommendations into the work that we're planning on ninety three that obviously is i think going to be able to to flow pretty well with their plans for next year task two and three basically take that a step further in extend that look if you will in the downtown area the there are some real limitations in terms of how fast they can turn that study around when we get to that larger scope basically they're saying that that really needs to be something that would be looked at and studied in that would take  you know the work basically into next year into a significant amount of next year so what steph is recommending and again for us forgive me for reading here but it is a little bit complicated and wor wordy is that council approved task one of the proposal from us corporation to perform a feasibility study to review potential changes to downtown traffic patterns and authorize the mayor and deputy city cl execute a contract modification to the ninth street professional services agreement with the u s corporation in the amount of thirty three thousand five hundred dollars and again just for those who may not be plugged into the night street project your s is the consultant that we have hired to go ahead and put the plans together for ninth street the preliminary work that has been done we're going to have an opportunity to update those plans and we again hope to incorporate this traffic study into those plans before we roll into construction next year north south roads correct yeah that would be task three that at this point we're not recommending doing that when we get finished up with task one in september october timeframe you know we'll be reporting that to you and have the opportunity to either stop there continue on with the with the future tasks and the reason you may do the north south streets is because of how they would affect the at truck movements in particular in making adjustments to those truck movements you know some of those may come into play in the north south movements again i  i just as anxious as anyone to look at what comes out of the first task one of the things that we're doing as an origin origin destination study and again it's a little bit involved but it's basically trying to predict if we do  changes where the traffic may go then i think that that may be telling in terms of you know if we make changes east west doing necessarily need to make changes north south or or not so i think you know we'll start becoming educated well that's good i'm glad we need to think about it before we do it but i think i think it's a very intriguing question and one we need to ask so it's great it would help we you know the only question i have is  initial plans and some of the discussion at that particular study session brought up previous discussions reaching all the way over to  some of the influences that waterfront redevelopment may have to will and what we were going to do about ninth street there and that discussion then segue into you know what would it look like to consider night street in its entirety going back to two way and i think you're right there are so that there are some of us that were looking to see some of that traffic  in that we're getting ready to expand snow melt quite a distance to adjacent neighborhoods which to some degree some don't feel that the invitation across main street is all that great rather they feel like it is a pretty good crapshoot to get across one street to go enjoy downtown as it exists today so i think the impetus quite frankly has a lot of  few different factors but i think you're right in observing that you know the there there may be a chance here to to change some of the behavior patterns are driving behaviors on one street  if we can increase a little bit of safety we do not necessarily had anything catastrophic to my knowledge but i think it's probably a matter of time with volumes and speeds and maybe with some of the expansion that we're looking at so my personal opinion is  that we can't just dive into a change of this magnitude without some pretty smart engineering being there to give us insights that to lean on  o i think that's why we're we're contemplating this it least this section of it and i'm one of those folks that truth be told hopes that this this first section of engineering gives us insights into maybe looking at  the task two or task three at some point when appropriate in conjunction with future projects because we need to be able to do this now to match up with some timing relative to the funding associated with this project is that correct right yeah that's part ok the motion on the floor i believe you know for the discussion please call the rule whiteman yes  brings us down to item d three point two finance approval of comprehensive financial plan for pension and other post employment my name is carrie blanchett with public financial management i am a minister financial advisor i've worked with the city for a number of years and your family and scenes and i believe each of you have received the comprehensive financial plan that is required is a pervert of the pension financing i'm not going to go through that plan in detail that plan has a lot of information that really came from your audits and your actuarial reports what i'm going to do is spend time really getting to the points of this financing and how it would impact the city and what qualifies you to do this financing so first we thought we would start with just an overview of act three twenty nine which is the financing statute that was put into place by the unseen to assist  afford these pension in post employment benefit payments and in order to do the financing not every misspelling he qualifies to do the financing so the city is one of you know a few that does qualify to do the financing and you have to have partially or completely ceased your accruals and your defined benefit plan which the city has and the number of its plans and you have to have had or have a top up double a credit rating that is one of the highest ratings that in this pallet he can achieve you have to prepare in approve a comprehensive financial plan and the state actually dictates what should be in that plan and the plan we assisted the city in preparing has all of the required items and there you have to have published in zero seven tent and then that right of referenda period has to expired which it has and then lastly you have to receive approval from the state of michigan tonight if you are a prove the comprehensive financial plan and the subsequent bond authorized resolution you will complete the process will which will allow us to file with the department of treasury to get approval to issue bonds so you can see on this page you've completed a number of the steps and that's the last step required another factor that we considered and looking at doing this financing with the city is where is interest rate what's what does this mean to the city interest rates are at near historical levels so it makes it a very attractive time for the city to look into issuing bonds to lock in the low cost to finance and as we will go into later in the presentation to manage the payments for this liability a little bit better the other thing we need to make sure of is that you have the legal capacity to issue this debt cities in michigan are limited to issu debt to ten percent of your valuation you're well within that capacity you have about one hundred two million of remaining capacity so issuing twenty five million dollars to fund the pension liability w use about twenty four percent of this capacity i should note that there are certain kinds of debt that are exempt from the this limit like issuing revenue bonds for water sewer and then also is your bond payments are made on your  capacity will increase this slide just goes through the current liability for your pension fund pension system as of your last actuarial date so your total actuarial if crude liability is eighty four million you currently have assets of about fifty eight million so your unfunded liability is twenty six million dollars the state law does not allow you to issue anything more than what your unfunded liability as in the resolution you adopted arises you'd issue up to twenty five million sort of bring you pretty close to fully funding that liability we've been looking at the number of different bond terms and focusing on either a ten year bond term for the new payments if you were to pay off this unfunded liability or a fifteen year bond term and as you can see in this slide the fifteen year bond term has a lower in your debt service payment but it does cost the city additional interest over the life of the bond issue so it would be about three and a half million dollars more in interest cost based on current interest rates so two point nine million dollars in annual payments for ten years versus two point one six for the fifteen year option chart i think does the best pitcher of looking at what this will do for the city and the city's finances the orange line at the top is if you do nothing and just keep pain your annual require contributions and your unfunded liability as you can see those payments are going to jump over five million dollars a year when you issue bonds you have the ability to structure the bonds for your payment needs or whatever does you no desire payments you would like in what we've been talking about is pretty level payments so the blue line is a payment structure based on a ten year financing in the i think that's black is on a fifteen year payment structure so as you can see it's a lower in your cost to the city which is you know well below the cost for just you know doing nothing and paying the annual contributions in the one point i make is that is investment returns change your liability would change and that would be this the same under either method so if the money that is sitting in the plan earns less the liability goes up but that's the same it if you find it or not the advantages and disadvantages of bonding the pension liability and advantages are the ability like we've said earlier to structure the peanuts around your needs what do you want to do how long do you want to pay that you know what can your budget absorb  the ability to repay it at a lower interest cost i mean the plate we stated earlier the rates are at the very low levels you can lock in that rate at a relatively low r and it also for your employee groups provides funding and a known funding source that is going to be funded you know once the bonds are delivered if you proceed with the financing that money is sent over to mers and it's deposit to be applied to that liability on the other side you know the question is what's the downside to the city where the downside to the city is you're taking what is perceived by but you probably could just you know reduce it some folks on the other side of the state may have done that however once you sell bonds those are now bond payments those are applications of the city and it's a first budget application of the city so you need to make those payments the other thing is the investment return could be lower than the rate on the bonds so if over the life of the whole pension application which is longer than the ten years as that money is being paid out to retirees if you sold bonds for let's say three and a quarter and you only made three percent then you would be worse off than selling the bonds but if you make a rate of return that is higher you should be ahead as i stated earlier selling bonds doesn't eliminate the need for future future benefit payments or the potential for an increase in the overall liability but that would be the case whether you bonded or not and we already touched on the legal that capacity if you were a city that were up really close to your legal defect capacity would probably wouldn't be standing here tonight we would have just said no don't do it this chart is a church of the that rate of returns for mers which is where your system is through over the past you know since one thousand nine hundred seven and we thought this was a compelling chart because when we're talking about your bond rate versus your rate of return you know that money is going to be sitting there for quite a long time and toll all the retirees are paid out right so if you can see when you look at that you know the ra of turned has definitely exceeded over a long period of time three percent this chart just shows you the entities within the state that have issued either pension or post employment benefit bonds and there's a number of other ones that are in process the law the steps that we need to finish to complete the financing would be again it would start with tonight if the council were to approve the comprehensive plan and the bond resolution then we would in return take the package and file an application with the state of michigan and they would take some time to review the package we have offering documents that we have to prepared to describe the offering and once or receive treasury approval we can actually get into the market we will also need to get your rating your double a rating confirmed and if all goes well you should be in a position to in interest rates i would say in october if you have any questions thank you thank you  this only had dresses those groups that are closed we have several divisions within the city proper there are two divisions the public works are three divisions there are two divisions that are still open to the police in the fire  and we will not be able to address those with this sort of financing the choices there are different and we're certainly looking at those options if we were to close these groups which means that no new employees could get this benefit anyone agree that's a means to close that group then we could issue bonds should be choose to do so that some or tonight there are varying steps are trying to address with that but that that is not regarding public safety there will still be an all standing obligation yes motion passes eight zero and that brings us to a resolution that authorized a number of things elect pat explain those pat great thank you could even mayor and the members of council so the resolution before you tonight is a resolution to authorize the issuance of bonds a limited tax general obligation byron's to pay for a pension obligation that was discussed in the previous presentation just as a little bit of background the council started this process of bonding with an action in june when you adopted a notice of intent resolution which first indicated your intent to issue bonds in an amount up to twenty five million dollars for this that was followed by a publication in the newspaper and now we're here tonight to take the second in what is the final action at the city council level relating to the authorization for the issuance of the bonds carries presentation went through the various steps that are necessary to issue the bonds of the resolution before you tonight authorizes  of the bonds with an amount not to exceed twenty five million dollars that's the amount that was in the original notice of intent which is less than the total liability and that is the maximum amount you're legally allowed to borrow but the bonds will not exceed twenty five million dollars they are going to be used to pay for the liability for the five close plants and one of the things i think the question there at the end that's an important one to point out is this legislation only allows you to issue bonds for plans that have been closed to existing these are new employees and the reason for that really is that the legislation was designed to be a tool for communities who did something years ago which was viewed as one of the best practices which is to close the defined benefit plans and switch to defined contribution and that's regarded as a very good financial practice one of the side effects of that though is that actuarially what that means is that years later as you get closer to the plan's more people retiring and you're not adding new people into that pool you see that spike in your payments so that chart that showed the yellow spike in the other blue lines that's the reason this legislation was an act by the legislature it was designed to allow us apologies to close the plans and who are then years later see that spike to be able to issue bonds over a longer period of time to smooth out those payments and that's essentially what we're looking at tonight is essentially issuing bonds which allow you to smooth out that payment over a longer period of time so you're not faced with that large spike in the next few years that's why this type of obligation is allowed to be bonded as was also mentioned most of the time you should buy your bonding for a capital project streets parking structures buildings this is not one of those types of things but this is something that is intended to be bonded to allow you to spread that payment out level it out more so it makes it a lot more affordable and allows you to plan and budget for that better so that's why this statute allows issuing bonds for that type of an obligation as opposed to the ones that you used to see so the resolution before you would authorize the issuance of the bonds of the bonds would be sold at a negotiated sale with an underwriter yet to be selected it authorizes the city manager interactor of finance to select an underwriter and take the necessary steps to get the bonds ready for sale that would include preparing an official statement applying for ratings and making the application to the department of treasury to receive the necessary approvals so once those approvals are and hand the city would then be allowed to enter the bond market sell bonds lock up the interest rate and then get the funds to fund put into your retirement programs  thank you i'm pleased to announce the city's man excuse me the city manager's office is pleased to report the receipt of the following gifts the park its and recreation cell perot's scholarship anonymous donations in the amount of seventy two dollars parks and recreation digraph nature center for land improvements and brigadoon nation diane then kampen fifty dollars evolve fifty dollars dollars shelley in little larry would all fifty dollars michael the young fifty dollars rolf and ruby kicker fifty dollars for the public safety fire fire operations education programs rest haven fifty dollars human relations and international relations commission in kind donation received from shonda martinez book thank you thank you mary the council for this opportunity my name is constraining and i've been a resident here in holland for a little over ten years and i have grown absolutely love the atmosphere here i appreciate the opportunity tonight and i appreciate the opportunity is that the see a fountain has given me i've recently graduated from community action house's epic program this june epic stands for empowering people in our community epic partnered with manager caton to recommend this year's internship as the project administrator that would be me as of this may i have been actively working is special to me it's kind of for the how new connections and everything it is to advance more partnerships within the city of holland's community as you can see here the action item bought excuse me tonight is to except for information to seek the c s my foundation and foundation is at dancing climate change solutions grant to further networking and motivating energy efficiency within our community as you can see here are june energy blitz program was to target a household busy one thousand we actually taught targeted thirteen hundred we actually scuse me successfully target handle thirteen hundred thirty the goals of this potential grant to see as much foundation is to strengthen how and you connection programatic skate ministries partition by educating employing at risk youth year round on energy efficiency actually to give more to more skewed me more door to door awareness improve home with home energy improvements of six thousand homes this year to accelerate the c p to to reduce the per capita carbon footprint and to win a five million dollar georgetown university energy prize and change how in is in competition for that with fifty cities for for the five million dollars energy prize the city of how this at the top or tower ranked at number eleven this project has prompted this energy prize has prompted me for the request of this hundred twenty five sized cities that would fit the grant guidelines the approval of the grant as you can see on that slide would be for the would would be the goals that we are listening here and it is excuse me a human community energy plan as you can see our revenues and our expenditures are here in kind city labor and see as much in tara grant of one hundred and twenty five thousand  city of holland match budget of twenty five thousand howland d p w new energy up them and station program which includes ladybug surge protectors old appliance pickup and kind donations of ten thousand dollars and are potential key partners in this project would be how an board of public works how long you connections and escape ministries alan hope college sustainability institute energy retrofit task force georgetown energy prize task force and the c s my foundation in conclusion we are expected to have a meeting with c a smart foundation on the twenty fourth of this month so as they are as we are actively seeking them we they are actively seeking us as will in conclusion the city of how and how an board of public works wrote a two hundred two thousand and fifty community energy plan in two thousand and twelve in focused our clean energy efforts on energy efficiency and the development of seven specific clean energy strategies the goals of how it's community and you land are two reviews are to reduce the per capita carbon footprint via energy use from our current twenty four metric tons now down to ten metric tons by the year two thousand and fifty we are especially motivated by our twenty fifteen community energy plan and by a recent entry to the georgetown university energy prize competition of five million dollars and change what you miss white said in his two thousand and twelve annual message report we at the mot have long been impressed by the simplicity and power that underlies the community foundation concept which is to create a local vehicle that can empower the residents of the community to support causes close to home and close to the heart but charles mocks the excuse me the charles stuart foundation interests are to promote the clean the use of clean energy and strengthen economic environmental and social conditions that fuel our economy and strengthen our neighborhood families and futures as well as this project will do the same one of our seven strict strategies and energy outreach and education is this project we intend to create jobs via the a blood sample lation of the city's community energy plan in the city of georgetown university energy prize competition by hiring and training neighborhood energy consultants from the ranks of the current unemployed via the how a new connections and he skate ministries program to better understand that city of how long you can go to the city of dallas website i ask that you take this as a five thousand is budget in this book have been proven program for some sort of energy outreach associated with this event the prize so that's that's there and that's intended there twenty six  listed here as in kind of his is a is not and not new resources this is recognizing the fact that i would be involved there probably mark danner pollute our community for its services department involves and let the funders know that we intend to be actively engaged if it's the mission in so many ways i am with their resources we can we came basically by volunteers did on one morning a hundred volunteers over the course of the next six months after we get if we get approval we could give equal opportunities to all the other residents in the community so what we're really saying is we're giving it the go ahead which will know in the next three months there will be a grant agreement that they will need the city council the consider ok thank you the other questions percent level thank you given i believe the hour is getting late i will fly through some of these slides but this has a do with each me energy plan which we just heard about the three goals that are important  we ranked high and this is one of the criteria whether it amiss with buildings are energy efficient as well as lights and per capita residential income in schools so we're working on all those fronts tonight  of buildings here so what you have is we've been working with energy service company this is something that we started about six months ago the name is schneider electric and what's the been the point of energy serv companies that enables additional one stop shopping in a way that buildings energy systems are retrofitted controlled based on a plan that is consistent across your entire asset are probably better than what the as coke an offer which will find out more we'll have a report for you at the nine percent level and it's also they have knowledge about off grid renewable energy systems for your consideration eventually and this is the loading order the most of the cheapest the best way to basically conduct this savings is tonight use energy that's energy efficiency  renewables and they go in that order in terms and other ways of forming energy in terms of their overall impact on cost so we're looking at the the lowest cost way to to a deal with energy and that's  efficiency i'm not going to cover this side this is something that schneider provided at the study session last week which outlines pretty much what i have been saying the sixteen buildings that were looked at three hundred forty thousand square feet on by the city there's three options for vida ranging from one point eight million savings over fifteen years to four point seven five million savings and there's a variety of costs associated with each one ranging from two million  giving up the opportunity invest that money in something that would could produce a rate of return in this case money would be used and their savings so three percent cost for the a part for example if you're looking at three percent borrowing costs it is is not as good as as these projects because the there's a savings in terms of the energy produced this is hard to read so i just want to share with you that what you looked at last week in the study session this is a comparison schneider electric higher internal rate of return is better it is says four point one percent and that's when he took out things that relate to infrastructure that needs replacement anyway the windows that was pulled mechanical there is one other key and so that shows when there's reasons for maybe not moving forward on that but still you look at the data as part of the ninety percent report we talked about the replacement windows one question was you know are do all we do is need to replace i typically  that's their inexperience but we will do some actual testing as part of the ninety percent report to show what type of status different windows have been and see what you'd like to do there and am reviewing a variety of sources for third party engineer second opinion as well as other forms of financing and looking at the best way so this third party review would do everything that associated with reviewing the report similar to staff and what you will do yet they have experience in this area which will provide a higher degree of knowledge and ability to decipher which particular project or projects you would like to undertake there will be greater granularity than what you saw so that it will be itemized in a way that we can decide exactly which of which which energy improvements we want to to conduct and pay for and then pay back over time with the savings one in the same thing there is a cost to the study and so there's a visual review as to is there a potential here and after that they say we can go forward into the investment grade audit which is is there in gauged in doing at a cost of that would support their efforts and should the city or the county or school district who they're working for not go forward they would at least have recoup some of their expense and that cost for the city of homs forty eight thousand for the county of ottawa it was eighty some thousand by a different esko so that amount is has been incurred but it's only payable only bill if no improvements are requested of the company so it's it's to help cover the cost the same thing if if nothing else happens down the road so tails much simpler words in regards to what type of widget in essence gets us the most bang for buck if i understand in essence the scaling of this report investment right that we're going to invest sixty percent of something or ninety percent but if i'm understanding again it's just really the depth of the analysis that is the metric of the in houses exactly they have for example no one wanted to proceed with solar at at this juncture anyway so that's falling you know that won't be they won't put any energy into that so that's the reason for the sixty percent midpoint review to see where people really want to end up and then no no act accordingly a bad time i guess and so the the forty eight thousand is that cost is already been incurred oh it's it's really getting an additional fee to get today right it's just getting your money's worth at this point now in terms of the complexity of this and it can get convoluted but i think that the true intent of this is to give us that clarity so that we can figure out ok are we going to invest in this are we any other questions sorry just one more again just one more thing i want to clarify because we've had charts in there with good better best in dollars dollars associated we're not committing any of that we're in essence saying we're going to do the death of this ninety of years i've seen a lower number a lower amount of investment because the higher cost items took longer term time to pay back so that's what you're really committing to is the looking at the that the ten year that was known as the is the better options that he gave us and i don't haven't heard anyone say they want solar first for city hall that they've rolled out putting solar on the roof for a lot of reasons and  i see a timeout over here so if that is something that you like to do i do i should make that clear i don't know so much that it's a nobody said it i said it we should be exploring every possibility we've got a lot of flat roof around here at this point dreamin is good it's costing us nothing we have no commitments but if we don't have the information we don't know how to make intelligent decisions but if i understand the reporting proper initially so you could have them do that i want to finish my statement thank you for the correction then and i stand corrected we talked about solar on the roof rather than in the parking lot because the parking lot has of the number of connotations and ramifications they it was already a tough payback not under ten years on in the parking lot it's even tougher on the roof because you have to mobilize cranes and personnel and equipment differently so the feasibility already to some degree or the lack of it transportation building for example when the civic center when we get those plants figured out i'm hoping that it doesn't load solar but to be done in a way with consistent with everything else that's going to happen there so so it's direction on whether you would like them to continue to evaluate solar for one or more buildings to get so again i mean i'd love to explore solar too but it seems to have emerged out of the sixty percent report already is probably not the best value option for a therapist for compared to other things are making statements like that we're stopping you when you think the more solar rays that you can get up there the better your return is going to be bigger investments and so forth so there's a number of factors that come into that keep the options open that's i want to ask you know and we've talked about this ten minutes too long already but i j my g is working and the sun shines on him all the time so give a little bit by thinking about district t v i think that's where he veered off the sell the discussion in our last meeting because why don't we consider our signature product of district heating sin city hall could possibly be connected central avenue which is connected to the p w and maybe that's the best way for holland to do it city hall so i would say for sure  excellent thank you sir you know and thank you for pointing that out that is in the report is one of the things we heard last week all right stop earlier than the day for the how and you've connections the annual cookout i did have a chance to meet with a number of the teams including one yesterday at crown motors and it's just amazing  positive results that i see and hear about and i'm glad that all of us can be part of that's a campari that's a ok well for anybody that still out there listening we encourage you to contact us to let us know your thoughts and you can find all of our contact information for the web series web page and contact information for us telephone numbers e mail addresses are all there there's also a wealth of other information about different activities that are going on and find some great it's that wonderful time of the year labor day is coming up and we're having the labor day board walk i'm labor day to september seventh eight am meet on the western side of heinz they go down that waterfront walkway beautifully all the way to win the island gardens where we will have a blueberry pancake breakfast how awesome in the pavilion and they'll even have some staff from back to help chiropractic there helping you with whatever muscle we get strained on the walk we may be handing out water partway through this is just going to be first class and shirts are available this year so you want to go down to the rec department at the civic center and preorder your shirts we're only going to do a limited quantity but i know everyone out there has always wanted a t shirt with a pancake walking next to a blueberry on the way to a windmill island gardens so get your order in early and it should be really fun to have that nice three point nine mile walk all the way from heinz to bring my own gardens so please come also you can just show up and eat if you'd like to or take a short version walk whatever fits you we just like being outside and enjoying the water and nature and all the beauty that holland has to offer mayor and if that doesn't trip your trigger on the same day labor day if you want some noise if you want some excitement you want some big trucks coming at your liberty truck parade starting off at approximately nine fifteen in zealand rolling down through zealand chicago drive into holland and they get to experience also the new roadway in tony saint the route this year because of the construction because of the power plant everything else is going to be slightly different unfortunately we will not be able to roll down a street from lincoln to the civic center we're going to have to take a slight detour the detour is going to bring us to seventh street and then seventh street to river avenue where we will be allowed to make a left hand turn or go south for one block and then continue on eighth street to the civic center where the trucks will be staged  and i just learned we're going to have a meeting tomorrow but i just learned that we have seventy two trucks this year that is the largest we've ever had this is the fifth year that the foundation has done it in the ninth year that this parade is going on started out with just a couple of trucks and some noise and now we're up to seventy two trucks so if you want to see the best representation of the employers of the city celebrating the employees of this city and the surrounding areas please come out and support the truck parade support the employers support the employees that's what labor it is all about and there will be free ice cream hope to see everybody there nine starting nine fifteen on labor day morning how does eland should hit how and quarter to ten ten o'clock somewhere in there promises to be a good time and i know the mayor will be speaking still can you get your blueberry pancakes to go to sleep but you can do not a ball that's perfect you can have breakfast if it's a competition i don't have boardwalks i don't have blueberries although i do like the very pancakes and i don't have trucks but i got jobs and sell that if you will pull it up on the screen for all to see i just want to bring a bit of highlight to what i think is a pretty cool joint venture as we're all aware and by now most of the public is aware we have a brand new power plant going  they're partnering together to help the dollar stay in the community as long as possible and that is by hosting a trade fair on september ninth nine a m to five p m and the idea here is to get young  people involved in the trades i think we have all heard enough news about how difficult it is to find folks to come into these these types of jobs and truth be told they're very well paying jobs and they they are highly educated jobs and i know that  you a one seventy four is proud of its apprenticeship programs and they have some of the best apprenticeship programs in the country quite frankly and so for those that have interest in the community that want to come see what those jobs look like you know to some degree a bit proud because my pops trade is on that list and i was raised by a mill right and occasionally gets me in trouble at home with a copper pipe or a piece of lecture city but  thank you and the other motions or resolutions by council members seeing none there's but one motion remaining