good evening we're pleased to begin our first meeting of the twenty eighteen year we're glad to have you a part of the audience it's amazing how many people are here in the middle of a snowstorm central but i guess we've been having that for a while  and you care about your city so it's great to to see people here for the snow this meeting and we're grateful to speak again the year twenty eighteen as the city of holland could you please start with the roll call t are we have a corpsman aides are all great thank you so much now will begin with a couple items we have done for decades which is opening prayer led by our colleague quincy byrd and after that we'll have the pledge of allegiance we would appreciate it if you would stand with us and join in that activity before we go and thanking you for this new year i want to thank you for a wonderful two thousand and seventeen thank you for giving us the wisdom and the guidance and run in the city in your favor over the city and as we move into the new year this being our first meeting this year that you will continue to give us was the main guide us as we move forward in planning and taking care of things that need to be taken care of that others may not see and i just pray for strength over this counsel and your blessing in jesus name amen to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice  thank you quincy appreciate that and we're moving on to the consented genda and tim buckley or clerk will be reading a series of items that we will plan to approve with one motion at the end however you may have come here because you wanted to speak to one of these items that he reads on the consent of gen that if that's the case at the end of his reading i'll open it up for people to come from the audience to the podium to give us your name address and which item you amendments to chapter eleven fire insurance escrow program with adoption and final reading at the january seventeenth two thousand eight hundred council meeting item twelve d one to refer a claim filed against the city to the city's it surance carrier and a city attorney for consideration item twelve d two to approve the uniform video service local franchise agreement eighty n t subject to approval as to form by the city attorney item twelve easy three point one to approve the agreement between city of holland parks and recreation department and ho d public schools for so removal of various locations as approved form by the city attorney item twelve three point three to approve the bid submitted by denny's excavating for improvements to be made at the entrance of digraph nature center in the amount of two hundred eighty four thousand dollars to be funded by a grant from the michigan department of natural resources trust fund donations and municipal capital improvement fund item twelve be three point four to approve the bid submitted by brooks view landscaping for improvements at washington school green park in the amount of sixty two thousand one hundred fifty one dollars to be funded through donations and from the municipal capital improvement fund item twelve be four point two to approve the restated articles of incorporation for holland energy fund and authorize the mayor and clerk to execute it to execute any documents i don't twelve five point one to approve the fire division personnel to submit an application to the assistance to firefighters grant program to secure funds for the replacement of the department's breathing air compressor and associated equipment and the amount not to exceed sixty thousand dollars and if awarded to authorize a budget amendment for the required ten percent match not to exceed six thousand dollars and authorize the mayor and city clerk to sign any documents required to facilitate the f g program request thank you sir now as i said there may be one of those that you wanted to speak to and it will be covered with one emotion in a moment but we could take it off if you'd like so if you would like any of those items on the consented gender to be removed from the consent agenda just come up to the podium give us your name and address and which item you would like taken off and then we will handle it in its order as it appears on the agenda does anyone want anything taken off seeing none will close with the audience how about counsel does anyone want something taken off mike  mary like to remove item number four b one the minutes of the december twentieth twenty seventh the regular meeting by thank you any other items pulled from consent david or your i believe minutes would you like to handle that run yet you have five minutes from the last a regular meeting before you for approval and discussing it with the few items that we think need to be cleaned up in the minutes and so we would ask that the minutes be tabled and to the next meeting so that that can be taken care of thank you who would like to do that notion of  by just say we support supported by hoekstra all those in favor say aye the same sign that carries thank you and will move on to the special order of the day public hearings we need a motion to remove from the yes mike we need well i guess all those in favor of removing it from the table say i'm all right post same sign it's removed from the table or that does the managing of the sections going through it and coming up with items that they think were needed to change section numbers that have been changed and were referenced wrongly in other parts and statute numbers and so forth of the names of departments and they came up with a list of things they were reviewed by the departments that deal with each of those chapters and then they recommended to our office what things can change and what not to change and so what you have before you is a list was is a whole slew of ordinance amendments one for each chapter starting with chapter two ending with chapter thirty six with a few missing in between with those clean up changes i would consider mall cleanup changes where we've corrected statutory references where we have corrected references to our different ordinance sections and then also cleaned up changes in the names of departments for example the department of environmental health as mentioned several times with that's been long changed community and neighborhood services same way with the department of public service safety names so we have all those the only you know real two items of substance that i think should be mentioned is that in chapter fourteen we have changed the definition for an unfit structure for human habitation to include the lack of garbage or refuse removal services that comply with the code as part of that definition and then secondly delete a reference to a definition of unlawful structures because that's already covered in chapter one thousand and nuisances and then secondly chapter twenty five seems like an oddball when it first glance because we're deleting the plumbing code but that's now covered under a different code in the ordinance so that would just be a duplication there as well and so we recommend the adoption of each of these ordinance sections thank you ron good explanation it's a lot of it's not fun and exciting but it's important work and we appreciate the company helping us and each of the department heads going through all these various details and making sure everything is clean in current yes so could you call the roll please tim peters is anyone here that would like to speak to the council you're welcome to come and talk about whatever you like we have a little lighting system green means go yellow means you have one minute and red means you're five minutes  i know some of you people on this net with some of you people you just made a comment a while ago first meeting in two thousand and eighteen it's also an election year ok i know a lot of the  people that are running for office and some of them are close in live around the town that we know some of the other side of the state or the middle of the state and i'd like to bring some of them here and i'm going to put together a  having a state rep roger victory running for senate and this is dollars going to be over at my house and you know i want everybody to come kick your tires around ask them questions get to know them you might find something if you're my councilman maybe you can get a head count and get to me by the end of the weekend that it be much appreciated but these guys are great i've been with them so many times for the last two or three years and they have a lot of insight i think they have a lot of answers to a lot of the questions that people talk about and i want to make sure they get their voice heard so everybody could could come bring a friend bring a spouse and enjoy it thank you thank you and he went out from the audience for public comment oh well close public comment then move on to the adoption of an ordinance with the rezoning of property need to start with a facility in anticipation of developing a south holland neighborhood the area was in the early to thousands rezone from c to d with that plan never being realized area has remained pretty much commercial and industrial and in fact the twenty seventeen master plan designated this property as highway commercial which is consistent with us who choose owning so the applicant will soon be bringing their site plan requests to the planning commission and so they're they're requesting the rezoning in anticipation of that planning yeah i mean that thank you very are really is as you can see it's in the section just right on the the city law in rape ordering her very close to industrial area as well see two commercial highways just north of that in the light pink there so it really a mini storage facility really is in line with the two it is permitted in comes before you for adoption after first reading last time under our current ordinance code language peddlers have to be licensed but they're not allowed to peddle their goods and eighth street  royalty during two of time week the request was made to allow license peddlers to peddle water bottled water and prepackaged snacks in the bleacher areas during two of time events and shortly before and after and so first reading aloud for that and thirty minutes before and after there was some discussion about amended language to revise that what i just mentioned was what was on first reading  revised language that was discussed that we have proposed would be that notwithstanding the above which the above is the prohibitions on peddling notwithstanding the above a license peddler who is contracted by the  festival ink gauge in peddling bottled water and prepackaged snacks in the bleachers along eighth street and along general t ave during any event organized coordinated or administered by two time entering the one hour before or after such a day so the proposed change from the first reading is one that the license paddler as to be contract by how until time and secondly it can be an hour before and after instead of thirty minutes so the process because this was on for first reading would need a motion to to adopt it as first read and then if you want to make the change in the language that i just read we need a motion to amend approve and then a finally a vote to adopt the ordinance ok so they have a motion as it was first support supported by hoekstra and a discussion about that yes when i think probably a little bit of history on this is they came to us to a time came to us about a month ago and they were concerned about people who were in the bleachers maybe on hot days that they would have not access to water they might be older people having trouble getting up and down bleachers or people with disabilities that might have difficulty getting to a place where they would have food or drinks etc i would support this by only concern is i want i don't want to see  tourists being ripped off or being charged an exorbitant amount of price sometimes when you go to these events people are sort of in a position where they're willing to pay more than what you will get at  another place i would just hope that they would use good common sense we'll see how this goes and if we need to make changes next year will do so that would be my only concern about it thank you wayne and the to amend the ordinance to what i read and that's the clean version that's in the agenda and that would be what you taking a roll call on would be to approve the men then would need a roll call to now we need a roll call to adapt correct thank you we appreciate your participation lind ok moving on to transportation service this is our traffic change along twentieth street and we have our director of transportation mr brian white thank you specifically trying to improve traffic flow on twentieth street and so our proposal before you tonight has to do with parking restrictions on the north side of twentieth street to the east of in reality for approximately five hundred  twenty feet as you see there on the screen in this would be for school days only and again as is customary with a request from the traffic committee what we would propose and request is that this gets tabled so that we can send out notices to adjacent property owners and get input and then that will be taken to the next subsequent council meeting for action at that point thank you and we are doing this as a result of whose input yes so this was a request that came from the school ok thank you and the traffic committee has looked over oh yeah we did review it at the last monthly meeting with the traffic and if we table it then you're going to do more research talking to everybody around there and figuring out how best to proceed clear correct and that's customary with with regulatory things no parking included is that we go motion to postpone action until january seventeenth twenty eight clear of us i would say robert's rules is not one hundred percent clear on that because i looked that up after a prior meeting that too long ago and it probably would be best to have a motion to approve and then a motion to postpone because then you know from management mistreated services would you please read us that this mr bakley certainly the community and human relations commission year five fs twenty six youth connections program jim and nancy de boer one hundred dollars magna mears of america two thousand dollars non of the parks and recreation digraph nature center an anonymous renovation project for one hundred dollars evan and marie man a key road ovation project a fifty dollars anonymous exhibit program one hundred fifty dollars mary bowles adopted program twenty five dollars she and quinn will let adoption adopt an animal program thirty dollars all of the go adopt an animal program twenty five dollars young fang interiors bridge supplies program one thousand dollars the parks and rec sell pres scholarship various employees various city employees three hundred seventy seven and visitors bureau the downtown home lighting project three thousand dollars the community and neighborhood services the national light out two thousand and seventeen j n n concessions two hundred ten dollars and seventy cents in kind donations from tyson foods twelve hundred hotdogs valued at five o two fifty six target day gift card valued at four hundred dollars taylor rental table rental valued at two hundred sixty six dollars area residents in action don't tank valued one hundred sixty five dollars and thirty six cents bachata a bank water in popsicles give or bakery big pies valued two hundred in ice cream for the polar patrol valued at two hundred dollars it's recommended these donations be accepted with appreciation an expression of gratitude support moved by to see they supported by byrd all those in favor say aye those same sign thank you thank you so many of the public in supporting so many things that make life in holland special thank you i'm moving on to communications from the city manager met then dyken is here as assistant to the city manager the temporary city manager well greg robinson is out for a couple weeks so we appreciate your leadership all this time and helping us in so many ways on top of what you're already doing and speaking of what you're already doing do you have like a civic center report to give us so i do i do have a brief report  couple of things that are going on inside of the civic center most of you that have been by the facility can see that's almost completely enclosed the north lobby is going to be enclosed and we're going to start getting heat in there exciting thing that happened actually today is they poured all the concrete for the floor in the east lobby area so that looks way different way different fields amazing how much just well what if you don't truckloads of concrete will do to make a space feel big  another piece of good news is that he watering pot that was running all you all saw that on your tour is out the system that was put in the basement to remove the water is no functioning and running so that's for me that's a foundational thing that's something we need to get once we'll get everything in close will start pouring concrete and finishing up some of the stuff in the north hall but we're excited that when the winter enclosures come off this spring it's going to be a whole different facility and work cited for the public to get that that first glimpse sometime this spring so speaking of where i just a special thanks to our streets department our parks department as most of you know in holland michigan it starts snowing in october and stop snowing in june we're in the middle of that it seems like  and we had folks we did employees that were out on christmas day making sure the streets and sidewalks were safe so they've been out a lot you know this winter seems to be shaping up like one of our our our winners of three or four years ago where we amazing i think they've been starting very early every day since new year's christmas eve until today because the snow came later but we certainly aren't lacking in snow today so that's amazing dedication on the parts of the parks people doing all those sidewalks on the roads people the transportation people and not to mention the people trying to put out fires with water and freezing everything i saw case in new york city and everybody's got frozen equipment in and the water's freezing as it hits the hollis's and that's what happens and i guess christine he was just telling me you take off your suit as a firefighter said it next to you and it's all frozen solid that's what happens in this kind of weather and they just have to keep squirting as fast as possible so we appreciate all their work and of course all the police that are out there with the rollovers and the off roads and everything else that happens when the rest of us hunker down and enjoy  time as families and they are all out there making life livable for us and and we're just appreciate so many different departments and so many people working so hard for us i'm very grateful and today there was a member from howland's city community who was on a plane to the netherlands his name is peter hoekstra with his wife diane and he left today was scheduled to leave today for the netherlands to be our dutch ambassador for four house from holland to holland and that is an amazing thing for our city and to have that connection and we hope to be able to make work of that as he serves our country and as a representative our city as well so we're excited about that and we're very grateful for the beauty of snow melt this year and how well this close new closed loop system is functioning that the b p w put in it's all purified water now it doesn't come directly out of the lake anymore it's all closed loop system they put in a lot of new valves and we got a whole refreshed system and you can see that it is really working well with this amount of snow to still have that black ribbon down central avenue and and the beauty of downtown we're very grateful for that as well so there are a lot of wonderful blessings that we enjoy in this community and a day to day basis and it's really important for us to care about the people around us to help those that may need their front walk shoveled or get the mail for people that can't get out very well to be a member to think about our neighbors in the this different type of weather and because as matt said it's not going to go away now we hope we don't have snowmageddon but we don't know so please stay tuned to the people around you to help them as they navigate this winter season so we think you have so many people for all their help we want to go into communications f i've been driving around came back from texas last week ran through a snowstorm that was just unbelievable in the snow storms that we have here folks please please turn your headlights  on you may be able to see but people need to be able to see us especially white vehicles if you think your headlights are on because you've got automatic headlights just remember your tail lights don't want so for some out it's just a safety thing we want to make sure that everybody makes it home at night we want to make sure that there's no property damage we want to make sure definitely that there's no injuries so please all are city trip crews are making sure that they do that right matt is the digraph nature center and the washington school park it's been a long time sometimes government takes a long time to get things going couple to three years sometimes but what a great relationship between citizens and city on these two projects thank you for all the people worked on those plus many other projects donating to the civic center project and to the windmill island projects and many other things so with a great community and people who are backing those projects and hanging in there and motivating us to get going and we have motivate them it's a great working relationship so special thank you for all those people who worked really hard on those city employees and volunteers so thank you yeah thank you wayne public private partnerships are what it's all about isn't it yeah any other comments and we need to go on to motions and resolutions from council members are there any that seen any will move on to the first reading of the ordinance we need to vote again to have a motion and how can you help us with the prior agenda item was to place it on for