our consent agenda and what that means is that our intention is to handle them all collectively with one motion and one vote and what will do now is ask our deputy city clerk to read the agenda items that are presently scheduled to be on this consent genda and then after she reads them i'll offer some instruction in case anyone would like to take something off of that consent agenda but you know we turn to you at this point i don't five to approve the minutes of the  held july sixteenth two thousand and fourteen item eleven aid to accept and file executed oaths of office item fourteen a one to approve a contract with skipper's excavating in the amount of four hundred twelve thousand one hundred fifty one dollars and sixty two cents on a pre contract consumed contingency in the amount of sixteen thousand four hundred thirty six dollars and forty four cents and a budget transfer from the water and sewer contingency funds for the reconstruction of the existing undersized sanitary sewer on the west thirty second thirty third street between mill bridge and pioneer avenues with the completion date of october eighteenth two thousand and fourteen pending approval as to form by the b p w utility affairs attorney fo eighty two to approve a reimbursement to the city for construction services and total amount of five hundred forty four thousand and forty six dollars which includes a five percent contingency construction contingency and a budget transfer from the water contingency fund  two hundred one thousand and forty six dollars to cover additional construction costs for the water main replacement on sixteenth street between country club and quarter line road and includes replacing water main at sixteenth and waverly intersection to prepare for a calendar year two thousand and fifteen project pending approval s to form by the b p w utility of affairs attorney item fourteen eighty three to approve an increase to the professional services contract with fischbeck thompson car  were for the waste better treatment plant head works improvement project in the amount of one hundred eighty thousand four hundred eighty one dollars and seventy cents item fourteen eighty four to approve a letter of agreement number one between the city board of public works and the technical professional and office workers association of michigan adjusting wage rates of lead line worker am line worker eight job classification and item fourteen a five to approve a purchased sales agreement in the amount of sixty thousand one hundred dollars for two c s x parcels of land located at the new energy park future power plant i had in fourteen c one to accept and place on first reading ordinance amendment to section twenty two dash ten alcohol and look are served in a public place with a final reading to be held at the august twentieth regular council meeting item fourteen do you want to refer claims filed against the city to the city's insurance carrier and city attorney for consideration i know fourteen d two to approve a new second hand business license for road rush located at eleven forty five south washington avenue i am fourteen d three to schedule a public hearing to a special meeting scheduled for august thirteenth two thousand and fourteen at five thirty p m at the civic center on eight street declaring three seventy nine central app is a public hazard or nuisance item fourteen the one point one two approve the hauen historical trust request to install a four by ten rotating permanent banner display to promote exhibits held at the armory at sixteen west main street as recommended and approved by the downtown design review board i don't fortini two point one to approve an agreement with howland community aquatic center pool authority for the establishment of an onsite swimming instructions programme at the subject to approval us to four by the city attorney's office i don't fortini two point two to prove the list of candidates for the city's two thousand and fourteen cracks eagle project authorised a purchase order agreement with sco construction at a unit cost of a dollar thirty seven per pound and establish a budget for the project in the amount of fifty thousand dollars i know him fourteen each two point three to approve the proposed budget of five hundred seven thousand dollars for the m forty multiuse path project with two hundred thirty in to be allocated from the allegheny county road tax fund an increase of fifty three thousand from original fiscal year two thousand and fifteen budget item fortini two point four two approve michigan paving and materials company in the amount of one million four hundred fifty two thousand six hundred three dollars and twenty three cents for the sixteenth street improvement project and to approve the budget for the project with funds to be allocated from the street improvement reserve fund subject to approval as to form by the city attorney i don't fortini two point five to approve the proposed budget for the thirty third street utility improvement project with funds to be allocated from the allegheny county road tax fine and to make budget adjustments as needed item fourteen e's three point one to approve the additional cost to purchase and install a larger eighty four inch elliptical dream pipe crescent shores at a cost of sixty two thousand six hundred seventeen dollars and sixty six and its amend the street improvement reserve fun budget to cover the initial cost of this expenditure to be eventually reimbursed with bromfield tax increment financing i know in fourteen years three point two to approve the purchase of a bobcat i plan to from charlton carrollton  equipment company at a cost of eighteen thousand eight hundred one thousand dollars immediate sense to be paid from the centralized vehicle equipment fun i don't fourteen eat three point three to approve the class in construction bit in the amount of eleven thousand six hundred twenty five dollars for the roof replacement at the matter of unsporting recreation complex concessions building as included in the two thousand and fifteen unisa book capital improvement fund budget and that the remaining budget balance of four thousand three hundred seventy five dollars become available for other projects i get i'm fourteen e's three point four two approved blue water technologies bed in the amount of eleven thousand nine hundred ninety nine dollars and forty four cents for the relocation a replacement of an l c d screen at the public safety training center funded from the technology services and e e o c budget item fourteen e's three point five to approve the partial bit of ca t v computer equipment to cd w in the amount of twelve thousand sixty dollars in ninety four cents but the remaining items approximately one thousand five hundred to be purchased separately according for normal to normal purchasing requirements and that these amounts be paid from ca t v find item fortini four point one to approve the purchase of forty four gun belt platforms a problem with a law in the amount of fifteen thousand and fifty dollars as budgeted in the two thousand and fifteen public safety control type item farms and that the remaining budget peyos of nine hundred dollars become available for other projects item fourteen easy for point two to approve the purchase of a new police service k nine dog equipment and training for the dog and handler from northern michigan canine in the amount of twelve thousand five hundred dollars funded through the contributions made at the june twenty seventh two thousand and fourteen k nine gold fundraiser event and item fourteen point two to approve a contract with lake shore advantage for fiscal year two thousand and fifteen development services in the amount of fifty thousand dollars as budgeted in the fiscal year two thousand and fifty fifteen cities economic development projects subject to approval us to form the city attorney  so animal read that for us one more time fourteen three the time was i think mentioned a five thirty it's actually fight forty five it's recommendation and that's what was noticed out all right excellent so though there were lots of items and some with many zeros behind them but because of the nature of these projects a lot of street projects a lot of sewer projects these are all going to be wrapped up together with a motion and vote and handled all at one time now there is a chance that one or more of you came to talk about one or more of these items and you would like to actually see us address one of these items that anna read a moment ago individually so what i will do at this time is allow you to tell  me which one of these items you'd like taken off of this consent bundle and handled individually and if anybody would like to remove an item from the consent agenda now is the opportunity to do so and i would invite you to the microphone to tell us what item that would be all right seeing no one is there any member of council would care to remove an item one or more items from the consent and gender i see council member whiteman in the fifth ward so i may or i'd like to remove items for me to please the service dog please all right it is so removed anyone else comes from a conference place yes i'd like to remove fourteen c point one seed when the public space the city attorney item yes ok is removed anyone else care to remove one or more items all right considering the revised consent agenda for the evening is there a motion please move a prisoner moved by before supported by peter's any mayor dextre yes motion passes unanimously all right thank you very much we do have a few special presentations and recognitions this evening and we have some very exciting ones so i am going to ask the city manager to join me the slightly older gentleman needed his glasses  he did become a grandfather in the past couple of weeks and it is my honor today behalf of their dykstra council members to recognize a new community collaborative the name of destination education i believe we have representatives here tonight you will receive this upon your when you leave but we want to recognize that this collaborative effort will focus on making completion of post secondary education achievable reality for every student in the hollands elan area including everyone here tonight as well as who may be listening students of diverse backgrounds students who will be first in their families to attain a degree of potential and the like the goal is to increase this percentage of students who tan a post secondary degree from forty five percent now to seventy five percent in the future studies show that this training is one of the best indicators of lifelong success and although it does not say this i think is directly tied to income so the city would like to partner with the agency whose sole mission is to eliminate this disparity known as destination education and be a further resolve that the mayor in the city council heartily encourages the success of destination education know i can't emphasize i've been involved in this project from the very beginning first as an advisory board member when we began to look at the importance of education for the young people in our community and we quickly  came to a determination that we needed to focus on our youth from from you know the very earliest ages until they still entered their career their lifelong career and so it's been increasing credible journey to be a part of the development of this organization and the five people that are part of the organization which recognizes the importance of making sure that our youth complete education beyond high school not only for their own welfare everybody knows as you mentioned that it raises individual income for itself and for the family but what is not so well known is that it brings benefits to the community as a whole that the raising for example just at college attainment levels post secondary attainment levels by one percent in the community will raise per capita income by about seven hundred fifty dollars so that it benefits everyone in the community and it is an issue that needs to be addressed by not just individual programs or agencies by the  community as a whole in alignment and so it is critically important that that what the city has done is very key in that government business nonprofits the educational system we're all working together to attain a common goal and that is to make sure that our young people are prepared for a lifelong career one that that is useful that is fruitful benefits the community and one that fits them individually and so it's exciting to see how holland has come together as no community that i've ever been a part of to say we all want to invest and the evidence is right here in front of me this is this is a hollywood cares about it to you this could not be more appropriate because i have never been about a been in the community where everyone together for the welfare of our young people and so it's exciting to be a part of this initiative and it's exciting to see all of our agencies coming together and the city taking the lead in this way so thank you very much mayor ryan and city council for passing this in just to reiterate exactly what bert was saying in ryan and i yesterday were in a meeting with a lot of other area folks in the business community and lake shore advantage called the meeting together regional economic development organization and one of the the three goals for the organization in the next phase of its life is talent attraction and retention what that means that sort of you know buzz words speak for making sure that we as a community have the skilled and talented workers we need to to fill jobs in industry and that means everything from you know the high level executive to the entry level worker who someday may be the high level executive and clearly clearly destination education plays an incredibly important role in that so we all recognize it and your efforts but i can't think of better get to be running that program so congratulations and thank you but we're not done with the fun quite yet and again i'll turn to ryan because these two programs have really been passions of this fellow ryan is the chief appointed official of the city of holland the city council the mayor hire somebody to run the day to day operations of the city this man has been in that role now for a couple of years has done incredibly well and some of the things we're talking about tonight have been keeping actions of his so it's a a little bit out of the ordinary for ryan to step forward or for the city manager to step forward in these kinds of  events so to speak but given your importance ryan in these projects it is only fitting that you to also take a leadership role in tonight's recognitions as well i'm honored to do so it is my great pleasure to be here and to say a few words clearly doesn't do it very often they asked me certain questions that i gave certain answers to and they wouldn't leave they just looked at me they didn't like the answers and i'm glad that they didn't like the answers that kind of perseverance eventually my listening i think has led to a lot of good outcomes that i want to touch on here you'll notice that this is too long probably to read in entirety it's too long for the little that we just use for the destination education so bear with me as i summarize but it's all appropriate that it be here and permanently recognized whereas jr is the executive founding director of escape ministries established in two thousand and one thousand located on thirty second street growing up a gang member in chicago mr watt relocated to holland twenty years ago and turned his life around ten years ago whereas mr watt knew from his own life experience that the way to create a young person was to do more than just offer a sports program which i previously spoken of in this resolution he realized the need to create a place for aspects of life from school to finances can be addressed so with clear vision and a small group of people committed to the cause really crew escape to include programs to help students to stay on track the a s a p program boxing a fitness program a summer employment program holland youth connections and various other programs and classes designed to give people a place to belong another key component where we knew was working with families who knew that each youth needs a safe healthy home environment understand educating empowering and applying our youth means a brighter future for the youth as well as the city in two thousand and thirteen mr watt approached the city of holland and suggested an at risk youth worker mentoring program starting with two teams of youth it would benefit the community benefit and we'd all have a chance to invest in tomorrow's leaders in the past year mr watt also served as co speaker with the chief of police chief messer and multiple community forums and collaborated with out o michigan works manpower the city of holland and many more to create fifteen teams of seventy eight used to work in the holland youth connections program these work experiences are now providing the first paychecks and hundreds of positive connections that will help you achieve a brighter future long term whereas the initiative prison variance dedication in mr watson is a leadership escape dedication of escape staff some who are here tonight is worthy of recognition and support now therefore be a result of this proclamation from their texture in the city council says we do hereby recognize with junior leaders leadership and stewardship to the escape ministries be a further resolve the mayor and city council the city of holland on behalf of the people of holland michigan express our support and appreciation to escape ministries and their staff for accomplishing such a large increase in youth employment through working in connection with community partners out of our county michigan works manpower city human resources own city public safety michigan west chamber of commerce and make sure advantage and be at last the resolved that this proclamation of appreciation recognition i've given a lot of speeches over the last seven years and i can go on and on about this ministry and what is done for the kids in this community but i want to step aside learn how to live really worth waking up early got to be on time it teach you it sees you life gives that the pedro i was born here in holland and raise your hand and you know these guys into the job because i seen them struggling with the money just like me and you know  robust i was born and raised in holland michigan really i just want to think well you will forgive me this opportunity just to pretty much become my own person this program has allowed me to step out of the shell of being worried or scared of getting shot down in the real world and pretty much just waking up every day and coming to work just kind of shows me that there's people out there willing to help the youth having a stable place to train just stay out of the stories is chase our dream and do something we do every day and i just want to thank you my name's alexis rodriguez and i come from a family of eight and i have all of six children and the oldest nine months being the youngest fourteen years old and i wanted to help my family not just physically but financially being in and out of foster homes i mean my parents and upped and escape taught me try to fix that how news connection someone dropped program as a helping hand and provided not for just me but the community also they gave me an opportunity this program also helped me connect with people and to have a chance to communicate and share my experience with them and they're not just my coworkers but i don't stand in a group or a crowd i stand in a family i like to think you see it ministries and the city of hollis well thank you stand for in people or even take a picture through escape i learned how to love myself and love others and love life being really young and moving from place to place i never had friends or never had a place to call home being a scape i was never alone well i was a pad i was a pill popper an atheist and a cutter when i first knew an escape i thought i don't i thought there was nobody but something told me the story and i didn't know what it was really came to me one day he told me to attend a sunday class and then my mind is thinking that it was funny because i never thought of going to church but i agreed anyway and that's a neighbor people kept talking about how hard their life was and i was thinking that my life was just like that but they overcame it and when willie told me his story and all the struggle and all his pain he still found faith and he still found happiness i thought that if he could do it then why can't i be lying if i said after a joint escape everything was perfect but escape gave me the courage and the sharing to fight off what killed me the most every father day was the most miserable day for me every single year and when i had to obey him on every father's day i would cut my arm to bloody mess two years ago i cut over twenty times on my shoulder and the  but i still refused to tell my mom ever happened but there is more the bowing i got was so bad the only is over never having friends every day was a new cut i knew i would steal cigarettes from anyone i could smoke were marijuana became a routine and i never talked to my mom about my problems because i thought she'd just yell at me or make me feel worthless thanks to escape i stopped smoking and causing trouble and cutting for what i did good and they helped me through what i did bad i left for a month i'm off to skate for about a month and i got into trouble i started smoking pot cigarettes and i started cutting again i got caught with we didn't school and a handful of blades i was forced to community service and their p and that's how i got came back to escape they let me do community service and then i realized that bad things happen but through faith i finally got it and now i'm a whole new person thanks to willie frank yeah i listed the names i wanted them to know i probably wouldn't even be alive if it weren't for everybody at the skate and there's no words that can express how thankful i am for all you guys i finally have a phone  finally have a home i finally have a meaning to be alive and i finally have two friends and i'm finally happy to be alive  realize that if i complain that it's too difficult that i can't quit because it's going to be ten times harder the future i mean i have a family in the life to support i mean this may not be the job i love but it's going to be giving me a little taste of well be accomplishing in the future honestly don't think i need to say anything this is what drives me this is what keeps me up and i have wonderful people with family my wife gave up a lot for me to do do they need us they need us there is no such thing as a bad kid it's only what's been poured into him and what's not given to him and we try to give love it thank you so much while we close this calm i just want to say for anyone watching or anyone who knows an employer who is interested in the kind of services that you perform so admirably all throughout our community that we encourage them to contact us we did receive a contact today from a new employer and it's tremendous what you're able to to achieve in a short time and this is something that's important especially as we grow this will if you want to tell us tell everyone what our goal is next year the number was two hundred fifty that means all we got to do is triple we did more than that this last year so with employers help i'm sure we can make it happen thank you and thank you all our donors some of whom are here tonight as well really congratulations and thank you all for being here tonight we do also have a third a wonderful presentation this evening and i would love to welcome jack nine heist from the federal to institute the of course was the was the founder of holland michigan so many years preserve the history of this place which was quite diverse from the early days and one of the books that just came out was a three volume history of the city of holland and to give a little perspective there's a fellow in amsterdam in new york who wrote the history of amsterdam he did that in one volume it took three to write the history of holland michigan but jack also has been working on another book that he would like to present a copy to us here in the city this evening and jack i scheduled to do this at an earlier meeting but so glad that it was tonight i really proud of you  the birthday of albertus when royalty the hundred ninety eighth birthday event and i pointed out that in two years it would be the bicentennial and we should start planning our celebration so we did and we decided we would like to hold an international conference and have speakers from both the netherlands and america participate and we hope that we would be able to have it both here and in the netherlands and we did we began the conference in october of twenty eight eleven at hope college two days here and then in early november we had two days in allman in the province of over isel the netherlands we have produced a book which contains the papers from that conference but there was another element that i want to highlight tonight and that is the founders festival shortly after we started planning the conference  celebrate better all these bicentennial for the community so we planned a founder's festival and we needed money for it so we drew up a budget a few of us met with to provide five thousand dollars toward the funding of that festival included in this book which i'm now pleased to present to is the program of the founders festival speeches from the festival photographs from the conference and from the festival and we're very pleased to give this to you in gratitude for that support thank you very much thank you and i also want to present one to the city manager  you we're also thrilled to have had you here the sea evening and what a great night it was now i wish i could say that our meeting is done and we get to go home and what we really should is and that i'm this good note to me what a fantastic beginning to meeting we however have some business to attend to if you want to stay you're more than welcome to do so in fact we certainly invite you to do so but feel no obligation to stay so while i make my way back behind the diocese if you do feel the the desire to leave this would be a great time or stay as long as you'd want to as well but thank you again everyone we appreciate it all right it's only downhill from here folks right i did say to our young bucks are friends and you yes he was making his way out that he would give a quick ten in for a few shows to you know media was his card it would not last around thankfully he just sort of agreed with me and moved on so all is well anyway we do have a few items of business to attend to this evening the next item is communications from the audience and see the audience has taken off we're going to assume unless the chief finance director space i turn to the city attorney for introduction please thank you mr mayor as stated in our report a couple months ago the council adopted a revised section twenty two dash ten of the hauen city code which provides for  opportunity to have special events on public property where alcohol is served in the course of drafting that ordinance amendment to subsections and party of it where omitted from the new version unintentionally  those were two paragraphs that were added the last go around with with amendments and so we have proposed that the ordinance be amended again to add those two back again to the ordinance it's on for a first reading tonight we would recommend that it be accepted for first reading now i understand that tonight that this also relates to the application by the hauen historic trust for permission to serve beer at the civil war muster in september and that timing is important for them and the section that was one of the sections that was removed would be the section that would allow the council to authorize them to serve beer at their event and so we would recommend their recommends a second reading be put up for august twenty in two weeks that's a timing problem for them and so we would recommend the council so inclined it would have it is heard as a second reading as an emergency ordinance and august thirteenth and a special meeting next wednesday the charter requires a two week time period between first and second reading unless it is an emergency and here a failure to  act will interfere with the historic trust plans for their special event all right thank you mr city attorney is our are there any questions first of all for him right to seeing none before we have any discussion what do we get a motion on the floor please move your proof move by the mayor pro tem support supported by burgeon for point of clarification you would like to schedule it for the special meeting next week indeed all right and that is your understanding as well as  birch with the second concur excellent all right discussion please anyone comes from a clump urns i believe you removed it just brought it up because the city attorney asked me to get out of the perils of sitting next to the lawyer all right any other discussion please seeing none please call the role sure start with me no  leave yes white man yes removed from the consent agenda a matter of a police service start from the police division don't know if the chief would care to address this particular item i think you're probably among the best suited at least among the best suited people in the room to a unit which is brought up in the budget process throughout this year by city council cos that dog will be twelve thousand five hundred dollars that will include one month of training and also some gear for the the dog itself even person these dogs from one these these animals we have already selected our new canine handler in training with the handler and dog will be starting september eighth two thousand fourteen would sort of like to stay with the same vendor consistency purposes of training training of a dog and of the handler to have all three dogs trained in the same manner i think is is is good for our unit was in the training together and our officers know how those dogs react the dogs that we've had since two thousand and one of been very good dogs excellent dogs actually certified a well the national level are well known and we've had any any kind of issues of those dogs in the past or the canine has been more than willing to step in and assist raise about thirteen thousand nine hundred dollars from the k nine unit golf outing that money will be used to purchase this dog we also have a larger fund that's in place that we could use in case there is any kind of emergency situation for this dog or any other dog that may be injured or killed a lot of duty or there may be veterinarian bills that we could use that money for research this all of our canine operations are funded for the dog itself and the supplies for the dog not the officer but the dog and supplies purchased nicky and kate and handler on driving one other question john could you talk to us a little bit about how having a canine unit helps us with drug situations sure  so for those two reasons ok then us or very beneficial for our operations when it comes to drug enforcement but they're also very beneficial it comes to tracking fighting of ideas of evidence article searches all those things that this dog will be trained in all three of those areas we appreciate all your work with with the canines and the officers that are willing to live with the dogs and work out such good communication i know that we are all safer because of their involvement in your willingness to take on that that level is allow some thanks so much you any other questions for the chief otherwise emotion please movie approved by de boer sport supported by white men is probably speak dutch as well as bob does all right any other discussion tonight clearly a very light hearted discussion because of the unanimous agreement that these are important port features law enforcement  was unfortunately the timing was them in that demonstrative that this is something that is important for us and necessary and helpful for the dealing with the kinds of things that the department deals with please call the r speaking as a perfect segue into gifts the city managers office is pleased to report the following gives how a new connections program received our two thousand five hundred dollars donation from the hauen board of public works dollar donation from carol mcgiffin and a three hundred dollars donation from donald jean merton the second women i wondered and received cash donations in the amount of two hundred forty seven dollars and forty four cents melissa boyce nicole davis and clearest since story by your division for the public safety also received a donation from bond banks in the amount of three hundred seventy nine dollars and seventeen cents and the police division canine program received donations totally twenty four thousand nine hundred seventy poured hours from the june twenty seventh two thousand importing canine coffin razor sponsored by the hound public safety department with a net profit from thirteen thousand nine hundred ten dollars and thirteen science this is after expenses were taken out of recommendation is to accept these donations with appreciation except with appreciation this canine because i've been part of the the golf outing for i don't six seven years now it's an absolutely fantastic time it's the camaraderie that's out there and you can see the definite support from the community behind these dogs just look at the money that's come in this is what our sixth dog now and it's just it's definitely worthwhile you can see like i said you can see from the community support they've proven themselves over and over again these these three dogs now will know whether basically sworn officer so  this point of clarification i erred in noting the b t w as a donation that's actually a fee for service for the hollywood connections program so i think if there's no objection i will correct that and in my air they are not donating they are rather paying a that passes unanimously all right that takes us then down to the communications from the city manager this evening mr coffey thank you mr mayor members of the council i want to recognize that yesterday was a long day for city clerk and all of her team and using what appears to me to have been a flawless outcome and i know it didn't go without weeks and months of preparation and a great deal of as i said long days and probably lost sleep so i think i sang behalf of everyone in our community that we appreciate your services and and the good outcome next i want to recognize that there's two individuals in my office who are going to be very busy  invited at the bandshell in relation to epic we did receive a thank you note of pass around to to the city for your support of those activities and helping people break the cycle of poverty report all right thank you ryan communications for the mayor this evening a few items in addition to the normal reminder that you can find lots of information about the city of holland at the city's website city of holland dot com information about members of council senior city staff ordinance information meeting agendas all sorts of things we try to stick as much information on there as we possibly can sometimes it's tough to find there's so much on it but that's a great place to start if you'd rather not show up at city hall to talk with someone you can check out the web if you'd rather show up at city hall we'd love to have you also one thing as you enter into city hall you'll know that there is a kind of an oddly placed table it's a temporary location for right now temporary set up right now but the idea is to have a kiosk over sort of a concierge kiosk when you come to city hall we understand that it can be a bit of an intimidating building and we want to have someone there to help you and greet you and hopefully quickly handle the things that you need done it's our attempt another one of our attempts to improve customer service for you our public taxpayers and frankly our bosses so look for that in city hall there's a variety of upcoming  things that aren't directly city related but nonetheless i think we do well to promote one is this coming saturday nights at the heights of hope organization in the heights is a great community development organization doing great work in the heights and they're having their annual five k run and this is this will be my first time running it but this is as i understand that they have kids all summer long training for this run kids who otherwise do not run so this is a big night for them a great night for the organization great for the city of holland and there certainly more than willing to take a few more registrants so cough up your bucks go run heights of hope dot com i think google heights ohio holland michigan you'll find a spot you can register online and you don't need to be a runner mr mayor oh it's a walk also it's a walk also i've walked and last for five years take my dogs along with me and it's a nice travel through the neighborhood and testing city activities at the aquatic center is doing i don't know that many of us understand necessarily the community that the aquatic center that great facility we have here in the city of holland is a separate entity from the city of holland we have a couple of board members on the on the board that runs it but it taxes separately it's run separately it's running dependently and there's new leadership at the aquatic center and if they are doing some really really great things and one of the things that they're they're offering is free swimming lessons  we know that in this community swimming is hugely important and we also know that there are members of the community who perhaps might not get the opportunity to take swimming lessons so the aquatic center involves pool or teaming up to do this they are looking for some sponsorships however and for twenty five dollars you can sponsor a kid to learn how to swim and if you go to the aquatic center website you'll find ways to do it you can donate online you can become a check you can stop and get some cash i'm sure they'd take that too but bottom line is really hoping to raise about one thousand dollars there i think closing i think a little over halfway to that goal and my hunch is within the next forty eight hours or so they'll they'll top that thousand dollar mark because it's a great great thing and a good demonstration of what the aquatic center is really doing in the community we had elections yesterday is brian mentioned and i'll second his kudos to ana there were a few glitches but i'm happy to say none of them happened on our watch there were a few technical issues with some of the equipment provided by county and state agencies but everything here worked pretty smoothly and pretty swimmingly so kudos to them kudo's really to all the candidates i think the nine of us understand perhaps differently and maybe better than members of the general population that when you stick your neck out and put your name on a ballot there's a certain amount of german the guts that it takes to do that and win or lose i think as a community we ought to say thanks to those who are willing to at least attempt it and of course to those who won yesterday whether they face a contested election in november or whether defacto they were elected yesterday we wish them well and congratulations and the big one statewide was the proposal  one elimination of personal property tax replacement with good revenue so that communities are held harmless it's a classic win win win it's nice to see as as the old a team shows show used to say it's nice to see when a plan comes together but this truly was one of those amazing things so often we complain whether it's local government state government federal government why can't they just fix things come together and do things well this was one of those instances where republicans and democrats in the legislature as well as in the governor's office working with interest groups like the michigan municipal league and townships association and the business community and airplay and a whole host of other folks all came together and came up with a good plan that required the public to vote on it in the public blasted overwhelmingly yesterday so it's really a great day here in michigan for communities for a state for our economy and really for our children so congratulations to everyone who worked hard on that and then i was just sent a video that we might all find interesting case you happened to miss it we had this wonderful ship come into holland for the first time and maybe had an affair able to see that at home on the screens but all was sufficiently large to to handle a ship of that size but really created a lot of buzz and nifty ship specially designed for the great lakes and to handle ports like ours we'd like to think that we're fortunate to live in a place where other choose others choose to vacation this i think is another facet of that kind of experience so a pretty great thing for us and she's coming back fairly often i believe our  piloting that all right i have a few appointments for us to deal with this evening we have some appointments the youth advisory council and this is one of the great nights for us that we get to take a look at some of our  wonderful students who are interested in volunteer and serving in their community in this capacity so put your seat belts on because i'm going to try and beat and with the length of my report here so we have new students new appointments to school clara dryer eleventh grade helen christian joey hannigan eleventh grader of black river in mcknight another familiar name to many of us twelve crittur black river as well also we have students being appointed to various boards and commissions whose terms expire at the end of june twenty fifth teen queen lonergan the d d a kimberley else us parks and rec she's a tenth grader at holland christian sydney rivera prince parks and rec eleventh grader at holland high  raman syria who we already talked about the max authority among to the neighborhood improvement commission tenth grader at holland high nicole harris to the planning commission tenth grader at holland high michael sam deval switching from x to the police community relations so goes from one truth commission to another because you just can't have enough of my twelve grader at west out of a high school i've been off for a few months or a few weeks so this is my first meeting in about a month so i've got a lot of pent up energy as you can probably tell  who is the police community relations also he's eleventh grader at holland christian high school isaac french to the sustainability committee eleventh grader black river and then we've got some really appointments to various boards and commissions jordan to allow west michigan airport authority for his second term he is a senior at black river carter vendor call who is also going to the west michigan airport authority and also to the teen court board two times each he is a glutton for punishment he is a twelfth grader at holland christian keeton stall the you've been on the planning commission a fair amount of time birch and i have been on it for a while that is dedication there ian ian is a very unique individual in that he's quite skilled for a kid i'm sure he contributes and thinks well he does retail indeed he does the a for mention clara baker to the sustainability committee for her fifteenth thirty no third term and sidney rivera prints to the teen court board for her second term so my request of you is that you approve these recommendations for all of these youth to serve both as a on the court council as well as on the various boards and commissions to approve move by crook strong support supported by the poor is there any discussion all in favor please say i posed the same excellent communications for members of council tonight have one more point i have more appointments sixty zero sixty you're right i have more questions my bad i'm not you're still stuck with me for the whole bit i've got two more appointments at least we have some adult appointments merits significant mention that he is resigning after fifteen years on the international relations commission i think when many of us think of the i r c we can't help but think of her well or this guy has to see him in the element of being able to really communicate with people who know the language well and he loves that city loves its people loves their relationship with it and herb after fifteen years is resigning  retiring really from the i r c officially though i suspect we'll see him often at many events or herb if you're watching we certainly give you thanks and wish you well in your retirement and resignation fam has resigned from the age r c f for completing one prove moved by white man's work supported by the mayor pro tem is there any discussion saying none or very please say on the same that passes all right now folks you've sat on your hands long enough is there communications for members of council wonderful series of thank you's that you put together ryan and i just really appreciate recognizing willie and all of his work and bert in the beginning of all of that work of education and putting that together with jack need nice in recognizing and royalty and it was such an amazing combination of people that have looked at the impossible and kept going and order to ensure a better future for the community all the way back to albertus been rocky and his group and each of these groups and  the combination of the generations is such a powerful thing i think in our world today we can become so isolated and siloed in our experiences and forget about how to develop trusted secure relationships and i think tonight we were all reminded how important it is to hug a child to thank a person to encourage someone to take time to listen to and vast in doing kind things for the people around us we never know what is behind the face of each person that we meet and how significant our investment in their lives can be and so grateful for the opportunity to be a part of government that realizes our role here is not just to make sure that we punish and and work on evil in our community but w also celebrate good and grow it by rewarding it and awarding it and coming together to celebrate it and that we're very grateful for the work of so many and the generosity of the community in supporting those kind of efforts to give these students the hope in the future and all the mentors that have come around them the employers that are willing to help them and the people from the community that have come up to them and thank them and encourage them though we are really investing in a positive future for the whole for the whole community and i can't wait to watch the lives of these students i hope they come back  in ten twenty years and tell us stories of how this summer helped to change their lives and so i'm just very humbled to be a part of this and so grateful and inspired to to do those kind of things for the people around us thank you thank you nancy well said mike please i know you've been waiting for this a m september first starting in zealand it's been a this is our seventh seventh year it just gets bigger and better every year we get more participants we get more people out there it's a fantastic way to celebrate the many factors in the philanthropy that goes on around this community seeing all those big rigs all the advertisement on the noise  gets your blood flowing just a little bit so come on downtown september first like i said a starts at nine fifteen should be roland roland into howling probably twenty twenty five minutes after that will run  into the i'm sorry we will very carefully park them in the parking lot of the civic center and once those are all parked you can come in and take a look at them talk to the drivers there will be free hot dogs free ice cream drinks  all kinds of fun what a better way to spend a labor day then watching the trucks command celebrating labor and celebrating your community and kids take this to the bank the government says it's ok to have ice cream for breakfast that morning yes you heard it here first so it's all good it's a wonderful event i think at least of this year is anything like previous years they end up having to cut it off they may run out of room in the parking lot so more trucks want to be able to participate that can actually do so because it is such a popular event and really one of those things that hard to imagine summer in holland without that kind of vengeance it's really a great great end of summer celebration celebrating our great employers and great workers who make our employers great so it's a very fun time and the other community it is the longest nine military convoy united states there you go and you get free ice cream any other communications from members of council tonight councilman de vore again and again i just couldn't forget our other little activity that happens on labor day sponsored by the city that starts over at  the other side of the heinz and sixteenth street and it's the labor day boardwalk he start over there and go all through our system of gorgeous boardwalk along the water and find family and friends to walk with and  all the way three point nine miles later at windmill island gardens with the beautiful redone windmill and all that is gorgeous out there with all the flowers it's just even more beautiful as the summer goes on out at will island gardens we will have a continental breakfast out there the walk starts at eight o'clock and ends whenever you'd like it to you can walk you can run whatever suits you and if it's just a wonderful time people like to get their neighborhoods together and walk  together and have a great memory if you are interested in your business and you like to help us with providing that kind of practice we would love to work with you so thank you and we hope we have a great turnout for that activity as well  labor day excellent any other communications from counsel tonight seeing none we do have the first reading item that was removed from the consent and gend nook or serve in public space any special instruction mr city attorney all right we emotion you except for first reading please so who moved by peter supported by white men any discussion on that order this evening folks it's been a great night great night to celebrate to what's happening this community how we're playing a role in it but really how others are taking leadership roles in in making our community and even better place to live to