tonight's regularly scheduled meeting of the holland city council on the first day of summer there's a little humor in there come on now it is good to have you in chambers this evening or watching by way of television or some sort of electronic device somewhere around the world before we can conduct the left of your your left or right i had invited everyone in chambers to join us in those items almighty god the father thank you that you have been with us this last week and that your presence presence is with us down lord we thank you for our city officials and all present here with us tonight we pray that you would be of them's great inspiration as they share with us what you have placed on their hearts we pray that you would fill everyone with courage in decisions presented before them and give them peace we ask this in your name jesus amen i  thank you and i know there are paper copies of this evening's agenda located in the rack in the rear of the if you'd like to grab a copy or if you have an electronic device of some sort there is wireless within this building you can not only download a copy of the actual agenda but you can also take a look at all the back row material that council has prepared or has reviewed and prefer to try that again it could also take a look at all the material the council has reviewed in preparation for this evening's meeting the easiest way to find it is to go to the city's web page city of holland dot com go to the calendar section today's date and poof you're there when you look at the agenda you'll note that there are a variety of items on it that have an asterix next to them these are items that are that we've deemed at least at this point to be relatively routine even though some of them do may have large dollars associated with them we've deem them to be routine and our intention then is to handle them collectively with one motion and one vote regardless of where they show up on the agenda there's a procedure we can do to change that if you'd so like  but before we get to that i would like for everyone in chambers to know what those items are that we intend to handle on the consent agenda with one motion and with one vote if you'd let us know what those are and i would appreciate it to the minutes of the july ninth study session july sixteenth close session july twenty third special meeting and study session and the august sixth regular meeting two thousand and fourteen item eleven eight to accept and file executed oath of office item eleven b to accept a p a one ninety eight tax abatement application submitted by roll usa inc at six ninety four east forty years to staff or study and report fourteen b you want to place sign in except for first reading zoning ordinance tax amendments to section thirty nine dash three forty six and three forty seven in reference to murals in article mine science into schedule final reading at the scheduled september third two thousand and fourteen council meeting item fourteen c want place an end except for first reading amendments to sections alive and eighteen and nineteen to meet local concerns and adopt the two thousand and twelve international for your code with a final hearing to be held on september third council meeting item fourteen  two to adopt a resolution to revise march board of review meeting schedule in conjunction with the statue and the city charter of effective in two thousand and fifteen and subsequent years item fourteen c three two authorizing retain attorney william horton of wallington horton p c as recommended by the city attorney's office person for pursuing claims in the north class action litigation item fourteen do you need to attend the michigan municipal league convention to be held in marquette michigan on october fifteenth through the seventeenth two thousand and fourteen fourteen the three to approve the appointment of michelle prices employee delegate and john hoffman as officer to attend the mers annual meeting in september twenty fourth through the twenty six item fourteen before to adopt a resolution granting local first educational foundation a special event permit to serve alcohol on saturday september twentieth from three to nine in the washington square district area during the local first lakeshore street party item fourteen one point want to authorize the submittal of a core community fund grant in the amount of two hundred thirty six thousand seven hundred seventy five dollars to the michigan economic development corporation authorizing mayor and deputy clerk to sign in a series documents and to create a local assessment district to fund annual maintenance or capital improvement that directly affects the business in the region item fourteen need two point one to approve a purchase agreement for the property of five ninety eight prescott brought in the amount of one hundred twenty three thousand dollars authorized the mayor and clerk to sign all necessary documents subject approval asked for and by the city attorney to be funded by the forward forty thousand grant from the holland zealand community foundation thirty seven thousand in donations and thirty thousand legacy funds and a sixteen thousand funding fund fourteen three point one to declare a surplus various bicycles and disposed of by donation to seventy times seven improper you room dot com fourteen e three point two to declare a surplus various vehicles and equipment as listed in report and to authorize staff to dispose of all items in a profitable profitable manner i don't fortini three point three two except that you can expect for the two love and flower ball purchase at a cost of seventy three thousand five hundred dollars the funds to be allocated from the parks and cemetaries budget when my own gardens and reimbursement in the amount of two thousand two hundred eleven dollars from the two look time festivals of the cost and item fortini four point one to approve the purchase of twenty v's for placement in police cruisers funded from the bank of howland's donation of twenty thousand three hundred ninety dollars and the remainder seventeen thousand seven hundred ninety dollars from the two thousand and fourteen fifteen police division all right thank you anna that is what we're going to handle collectively right now but you might have attended this meeting tonight to speak on one of those items and would like us to take it individually and if that is your pleasure i would ask that you step forward  microphone and at the podium and let us know which item that is in the mall take it off the consent agenda and handle it in his ordinary spot on the agenda so if anyone would care to do that from the audience here is your chance to do so what could you all possibly be here for this evening i want any member of council can also remove one or more items from the consent agenda and comes member whiteman would like to remove at least one item mr merit like to remove item fourteen before please the twenty four the alcohol and public property item three council members an introduction and true to handle the bulk of that we invite kimberly meyer our youth services specialist to handle this part of the program good evening kimberly t evening it is a pleasure to be here this evening and i'm very excited to be able to introduce to you guys a new students that we have joining us for these advisory council this year before i introduce the new students however i would like to give a public thank  those students that are graduating most of them are probably either act college already or on their way but i just wanted to publish they thank them for their service that they've given us the last year or more so with that commission and exam or served on the planning commission as well as the neighborhood improvement commission so most of these students have graduated and are like i said by on their way to college but we wanted to i just wanted to publicly make on like they were that they have served well for us for the past year or so gone but not forgotten right we've always have such great students and i always wonder how are we going to replace them because where are we going to get more good students from and i always get really good students come and you have the initiative to find out about the youth council or that one of their teachers have encouraged them to apply and so they have and then they come for an interview here with me at city hall and was a pleasure to introduce these new students that are joining us this year so first of all i wanted to introduce all of car council to you i have two of my nine core members not able to make it tonight but the rest of them are here  so wonderful about our core council this year is i actually have more than five holland city residents students and there are minimum is five out of the nine but actually have more than five this year which is the first time that's happened since i've been here and just because it is really difficult returning for the fourth year she has been with us since the freshman and she is going to be our chair this year clara is the mayor clerk and then in mcknight couldn't make it he is going to be our vice chair  around city hall since before he was on the council visiting the planning commission and he absolutely loves being part of the planning commission and just lives down the street so he's very familiar with city hall and then freddie daley rosso is not unable to make it special event committee members  but she was not able to come tonight so these three will be joining our social services committee this year thanks joining our recreation committee this year is actually baucus should be a junior at westat a la ashley actually joined me last year with our raise your voice program through slick so i got to meet her there first and then she applied and and then we have our new students that will be serving on the boards and commissions i always think these are the bravest students because they actually choose to be part of a board that's mostly adults and they may be the only students sitting there and i'm not sure how they get the energy or bravery for it but i i always try to kind of talk them out of it to make sure they know what they're doing and most of the time they're already there already decided they're already in so again quinn lonergan he'll be serving on the d d a and he's not here tonight kimberl board and being a teen court board representative doesn't involve a whole lot of time so she has chosen to include this year to be on parks and recreation but she cannot make it tonight so she will be serving with him really on parks and recreation and they have the the couple of you will have to come up twice will be a sophomore at holland high and she was going to be on the neighborhood improvement commission and then nicole harris will be a sophomore on high and she is going to join in midnight on the planning commission and she is very excited about that actually trying to talk her out of that one that's the hardest to adopt or to be part of but she wanted to be and then isaac branch will be on the sustainability committee or commission maybe i actually have only been able to have one student at a time on the sustainability board and that's been clara baker and i finally talked them  into giving me one more student because i always like to have that rotation of the younger students come in and replacing the students i graduate so they finally agreed a very excited about that so we're very excited to have isaac be part of that and and he works with the four h and does a lot of leadership and team building training and somehow he got ahold of me the biggest summer and we got to talking and he said well i do all of this stuff for free can i come and help so he is going to come to orientation this year and work with our kids and do a lot of he's actually got a team of people so he'll be bringing about three poor people with him from amis you know from michigan state and doing team building with the kids so very excited about that so it's going to be a twice already once we appointed you a couple weeks ago and second we applauded for you this evening but let me take a couple of extra minutes to tell you that we are really excited for your service over the coming year and for some of you over the next series of coming years you know so often and forgive me if you've heard me say this before but i think it's worth repeating because i don't think people say it enough so often what you do during the monday through friday of your school life is really complex stuff organic chemistry and calculus and all sorts of stuff that frankly none of us would ever want to touch for the most part and yet it comes to things in the community and we treat you like you're not much older than kindergartners you just wait your turn some day when you get old someday when you know you know enough someday when you're experienced enough then you can take a part in providing leadership to your city and your community that is really unfortunate and that i think is the genesis behind advisory council as well as the opportunity for high school students to sit on some of the quote unquote adult boards and i can tell us someone who's now been involved in local government for about a decade having your perspective on those boards and your activity and involvement in the community is really outstanding and it both provides us energy and encouragement up here who day to day wonder you know why do we do this some days you  know is there hope for the future and you certainly provide us with that hope on a repeated basis and also it's just fun to to hang out with you of the limited chances we get to do so because you bring a lot of energy and a lot of great thought to stuff happening in our community so congratulations to you we're thrilled that you have agreed to step forward and join this organization and provide leadership to your community and the city so thanks much and now the words you've wanted to hear for now a good half hour or so you don't have to stay for the entirety of the meeting if you don't want to but you're more than welcome to stick around if you want but we understand that they have food we do we have ice came out in the rotunda so yeah that's always one of the most unfair thing that's of this evening is that we get to continue to talk about other sorts of exciting topics and you get to have ice cream but you can stick around if you want to but we understand it will not be offended if you choose to leave instead so thanks for being here tonight we look forward to working with you surely this year  for hopefully many of you for the years to come as well thank you the next item we'll get to as chambers clears is the item twelve communications from the audience so if you're here to talk to counsel tonight you can get ready to do that and i know we've got one person here who good will be about the only public member left in the in the audience once this is all said and done that's good to in the thirty eighth district which is most of you probably know is all about of what county as i said i live in up in grand haven and i am an attorney until april i practiced law for twelve years with a large law firm that has an office here in holland i am a former colleague of the mayor and i did litigation and advising have small and large business clients and individuals i'm also a mother of two small children and the wife of a high school teacher who teaches and a grand haven high i am running to bring my experience and come up with smart and reasonable solutions to the problems and challenges that we have in state government and with state policy  also running to bring openness and transparency to the operations of state government and i had left my position with a law firm in april and i've been running full time for this seat ever since and plan to do so through november i have an haven if anyone is there and would care to come and visit were there every day with a huge team of volunteers and i'm at traveling the county going door to door as i'm sure many of you have experienced before and i have the pleasure of meeting our neighbors but i'm also going to all of the local units of government councils commissions and villages learning about issues important to look at you know it's a government in the county and about all of the existing services and government challenges that the locals face so i thank you very much for having me here this evening i'd also like to mention that if anyone is interested in more information about my positions on the issues or my campaign website that isn't taken already but i would encourage you if you're interested in more information to go there we're also on facebook instagram and twitter with information about the campaign and my positions on just about everything so thank you very much i appreciate the time and i look forward to seeing all of you the rest of the summer and fall on the campaign trail thanks thank you sarah thanks for being here any questions at all for a attorney howard item dealing with the text amendments and we're olds etc and to introduce and discuss this item for us from the staff perspective is our director of community neighborhood services fill my evening felt good evening this is a recommendation coming to you from the planning commission this is a first reading tonight with subsequent consideration at your first meeting in september this is a proposal for amendments to section thirty nine three forty six and three forty seven which are sections of our sign ordinance part or zoning ordinance that deal with murals the issue that brought that sort of inspired this whole discussion with the planning commission was a mural that was being painted on the the west side of a building on thirty second street that escape ministries occupies it was a mural that included the words escape in the in the context of what was to be a larger mural covering the side of the building we received a call of concern from a neighbor over over that mural and when our office went out to investigate what was being done we discovered the painting going on the science the name itself the painting of a mural is allowed under our ordinance but the inclusion of the names of businesses or operations that go on with in a building are not permitted under our ordinance well they get interpreted differently they're no longer on mural which is allowed to be done really unfettered to it becomes determined to be a sign and in this case it was determined to be a sign and it exceeded this the maximum square footage that is allowed for a sign on the depicts a variety of activities both that occur within the building and images of of the life of struggle of many of the kids that they assist with that program  and and how they bring them to a community of a faith based community and a community of friendship that that helps to support those kids as they as they move on in life so as as  in the context of that discussion we've we've stopped enforcement on that particular issue while the planning commission wrestles with how to provide some additional flexibility in our sign ordinance to allow murals that have some limited amount of information on them that conveys what's going on in the building the propose well that you have before you identifies a second type of mural we have a sign up already defined in the ordinance that we have a mural defined and that we're suggesting a type one mural and i type two mural sign ordinance is anything that's advertising the name of a business or a commercial elements of the building a type one mural is a mural that doesn't contain any such advertising or mention or graphics of what's going on in the building and then a type two mural is a big mural that includes a limited amount of advertising or promotion of what's going on in the building so we've created some definitional changes in the ordinance and then we've provided a process by which anyone painting a mural on the side of a building would submit that if they're in the downtown central business district they did they'd submit that to the design review board if there are anywhere else in the community they would submit it to the department of community and neighborhood services  that initial review by those two bodies would be evaluating whether it is in fact a sign whether it's a mural with no commercial advertising type one mural or whether it falls into the type to category  has some percentage some images that reflect what's going on in the building or the name of the organization might be in that those two bodies would then decide which one it falls into if it's a sign it gets reviewed under or otherwise sign regulations if it's a type one mural once it's determined to be type one they can continue and go ahead and complete the the work that they want to do with that mural if it's a type two bureau and has some commercial advertising your promotion of what's going on in the building then it gets reviewed a little further and there are some limitations on those murals and in the primary limitation is that you cannot exceed twenty percent of the wall area  no more than twenty percent of the wall area can be covered by those elements that are promoting or or marketing what's going on in the building the entire wall could be a mural but only twenty percent of that would be able to be this this advertising if you will i'll stop there we've had a conversation with council on this earlier today so i think council is aware generally of where th camera as my i brought this up during planning commission fairly adamantly and i think i think city see hall's doing what it's supposed to do it's figuring out a way to allow something to exist but have some sort of judgement call that defines something for staff that would allow at least some  something that outlines to make it fair and then going through this as i read it and i guess this is the guy who just wants to be our in our to be created in it to be free and that's where i have a conflict with this i just it's i'm having a hard time getting around this the twenty percent issue the fact that we used an example of velocity bicycle within that building you know looking at that purely as art where the something like the model drug mural is purely there is a shop it's a shop it's a place for doing business it's a sign you know thing that there's i guess that's where i'm having a tree some trouble with this and so i voted no on this and planning commission i only did that because effectively as a conscientious objector to my idea that our should be part and it's completely subjective and almost i don't know it's really difficult to judge so that's that if  if people look at the record of the why did he vote against this that that's why the escape ministries sign mural i felt very passionately that that should be that's very much art in the in the in the defining spirit of street art the velocity sign is very much a mural in the spirit of a mural that is designed to brighten up an otherwise drab and boring and see if you can see what's on there it's a very much obstruction of wheels and gears the sun the light of the of the lighthouse and there's very very very small bicycle writers in there so i i look at this and i see very few that immediately this is art and so it's hard for me to say this is twenty percent of this is objectional because it refers to something that's happening within the building it's i don't know that's i'll stop there anyone else here to  ministries be able to keep this and would they be able to add what they wish to this with that boxing kind of thing etc or with that not be acceptable they would be able to keep this this as we measured was about i believe it was about twelve percent of the facade between ten and twelve percent we'd have to get a more careful measurement but they would be able to add other elements or other representations of what's going on in the building in addition to this this is this is simply the name escape this is what's rendered so far their desire is to add additional elements not just of what's going on in the building but that would include some of those elements you mentioned the boxing they have a boxing program there and they would like to include some element that gives you an image of boxing as well ok in order to do that they would have to show you a diagram of exactly what that would look like that's that's the way this is and we anticipate doing this is that they would show us something in advance so that we could make sure before it gets painted make sure that it would meet the requirements the alternative to that would be allow them to paint something and then go out and measure it but as you may suspect it's difficult after the fact to to get things changed  if it does happen to exceed those those limitations thank you other comments questions the mayor pro tem place just a question procedurally you're saying now that you want anybody that is going to put up a miracle to come to you first and in essence give the determination  so as i'm thinking so sure a village or project has that expands with they have to come to you with each new mural that they intend to put up and get a gay or and they this one's a sign yes well it seems a little cumbersome to me that's that's maybe a unique case in that there is a program that has been set up to create murals over a long period of time several years and from the get go it's been understood and communicated to them that they are permitted to put up murals and we don't regulate murals but they are not permitted to put up the commercial advertising or the representation of what's going on in the building so today this far as i'm aware they haven't sort of crossed that line and they've been consistent and we haven't had to review them it's not that we're concerned about the substance of their you know the image that they're putting up it's really a focus on whether it's commercial advertising or not so i would think you know we haven't spelled out the ordinance the procedures i think administrative i think we could establish you know on another program that came in similarly we could establish a process where you know it's clear in advance and everybody acknowledges that on an individual basis however yes in what we're talking about someone would need to come in at least for the initial review to say it's a sign it's a type one mural or it's a take tomorrow if it's assigned it has to be reviewed under those requirements if it's a type two neural then there are those the new or  conditions that we're talking about if it's a type one mural that's the last we'll talk to them about it feel something just came up to me what is the maintenance policies who is going to be looking at these is the if they're not kept up i know the one on the side of the the armory that's been there for years has been redone a couple of times but unfortunately i can see some of these things being lost in the interest of the building changing hands or whatever and why are we  e that i don't believe we've got a policy that the dresses a mural in that sort of situation for the paint peeling or there's sort of some evidence of deterioration then we can can address that but if it's just fading and then sort of begins to disappear as this many signs do you know some of the older signs in town we don't have a manner to address that on your clarification or  suggesting that we would somehow have a separate something for the maintenance of private property while in essence we do already if you got the peeling detrimental to everything which you felt was addressing we already have that i just wondered if there was going to be something subset specifically for the signs murals type things over and above what we have a ready for on the books you feel like that would be the allegation the property owner exclusively but it's still an if it became a nuisance then we would address it exactly shore street party we welcome the jewel died to introduce the item for us briefly please thank you chair counsels being requested to adopt a resolution that will allow local first nonprofit to a street party and sell and consume alcohol and washington square awash in squares a neighborhood commercial district this is being requested for a certain date september twentieth two thousand and fourteen and for a certain time from three to nine p m there's essentially three steps to approve this street party the first one is done at the administrative level when we approve the use of right away the second step is tonight here at city council of proving the use or approving the sale consumption of alcohol and then the third step comes with approval from the state of michigan liquor control commission when they approve you know the local first permit to be able to sell alcohol if it meets certain guidelines is being fenced in they have tips trainers etc this party is being hosted in partnership with washington square merchant handful of local businesses it business is in that district they're going to have live music from joel any questions for joel then emotion please prove your prove move by birch or supported by peter's there we go all right i want the audience here to address this item all right council what would you  care to discuss the matter i spoke in the meeting before this in the meeting i think it's a great idea i like the idea of the first lake shore st hart party in the summer i think it's a great idea it's a great idea to have merchants down there get a shot in the arm can be good for that neighborhood i'd like to children's activities the boys and girls club face painting break dancing food trucks music but i really don't think that the beer tent of the alcohol as these is a significant factor here it would be encumbered with a lot of fencing which i think is going to detract from the neighborhood concept i think of you great to have it open neighbors can come community can come here i don't see where the beer tents going to be a positive attribute here don't think it's necessary maybe in the future we can i think we looked at the civic center we looked at the civil war muster kind of thing i think this is a different kind of a event i think it's a family event and i will be voting no on this but i like the idea of the park but not  between i've talked with several of the business owners down here who are very very eager for this they want this to happen having been to the local for street party in grand rapids on granville ave it's a bit of a different environment there this is they're not doing it with and with with a multitude of of businesses along granville i think there's a very nice ellis parking lot the community foundation there with an entrance off the fenced area and i think the woods is also there outside of the fenced area so we're we're dealing with a little bit of a different creature between that one in this one  to see this happen i think that i just think there's some some questions with regards to and i have no opposition to the to the service of alcohol in the street and my issue is ensuring that the local businesses really realize the the community support from this specifically those that will be open during this time pretty as they are gallery minute mark things like that so that's that's that those it's again it has nothing to do with local first doing this is now they do with the city doing this is everything to do with the michigan liquor control commission which somehow believes that we have to control as much as with regards to certain liquid substances so that's all others all rights oh yes member from the first ward please i won't state the obvious but i am also very enthused about this specific event i think it's unfortunate that has to be clouded with this what we call slight controversy if they just if they in fact need to have alcohol to make this event successful if they put it on private property we would have an issue as the city council i wish them all the success in the world i think it's a neat neighborhood i'd like to see them as somebody said down there the shot in the arm for this i'll support that but i will not support the alcohol on public property place the fence is a problem the obtrusive miss of fencing in front of all the businesses that were trying to showcase here and somehow looking through a fence doesn't make me want to go into the business so i really and and i can see that we can have a great family party without alcohol but i can understand that people want alcohol and we have a law is about fencing so if we can just move the fences around the beverage tent and possibly by the food trucks have some tables there so people can sit there and he the music and enjoy their meal with their friends and i think we get the best of the worlds and we also keep the business owners happy and it is just such a great  cozy neighborhood business district there and this is just such a great opportunity with local first and and bring people out there and get the buzz going about what a wonderful area washington square is so i do think limiting the fencing to the and then also the police provision and all of that i think is just so i think this would be a great event to i can think even farther back to the days of the old street fair back in the eighty's or seventy's or whenever it was i don't remember those days are very well but  i don't remember a lot of things various reasons and i'm not opposed to the provision of beer at this event like this either but if memory serves me correctly other instances and events that we've considered offensive has been pretty well delineated it has been in this case too and i don't agree with it in this case because i think because of the the nature of this neighborhood to be able to be to restrict access i think from the street to the businesses even though there are access points to get around it it makes it a cumbersome experience i think if the fencing were to be moved so that the beer drinking eating area was sort of lumped together as i think that she is suggesting would make us so much about i think the problem is voting on this now we're not making that determination we're just all your access on the whole block and i guess i have a problem with  that you know maybe those things could be worked out in further discussion i don't know but i'm not comfortable with what i'm seeing here and you all know my proclivity for being progressive on these sorts of matters so it's a little bit out of character i suppose but i have some reservations about this thank you david other comments all right well i'll certainly echo in the words of the co brothers i'm with you fellers which of course in a way that sort of fun but not so much i do think that you know it is unfortunate this this fencing sort of situation but what is striking to me is that we don't have anybody from washington square here talking with us about it and i guess given that reality given the fact that this should hopefully be a very successful and popular event you know neighborhood commercial district that has seen some really interesting things happen in the past not only six months but past few years i'm willing to give it a shot for a year see how it works and ultimately if it turns out to be very detrimental to the businesses that are there i suspect they'll let us know that they know about this and yet we haven't heard much from them at this point so with that in mind please call the roll pierre's yes birds yes fantasy yes white man no and who among us would care to introduce that one acting city manager and finance director tim buckley mr buckley thank you very dextre before he was a purchase agreement to purchase property located at center the purchase agreement allows for the for the acquisition of the property it has been signed by the man our family funds for this project are going to come from a forty thousand dollars grant from the holland zealot community foundation there have been about thirty seven dollars in donations from the public generally to the city and there are thirty thousand dollars legacy funds in approximately sixteen thousand dollars in the founders fund it will pay for this purchase and we are recommending council approval who supported the grant for forty thousand those who contributed funds for this city throwing in thirty thousand from our legacy fund i think this is a good use of that money and if i understand correctly the founders fund should still have a significant amount of money to do other things to enhance digraph nature center so i think this in my opinion was a very us who live out there in the area we generally think of this as a community park but for those of us that live nearby it's our neighborhood park as well and we're very excited to see this improvement  will it will be a good thing for the nature center so this can continue to be a valuable asset for the city as a whole but particularly for our neighborhood over there workplace it's really a celebration of all kinds of people coming together and caring about future asset that children can safely access and that has a respectable entrance and it shows that the city of holland values its green potential and that it's it honors the the legacy of to graph and and the beauty of nature creation and it's just great to see so many different people from all different walks of life send us communications and send in checks and express their love of nature and and its u education there for for children and for future generations to appreciate and for the community foundation to be a partner in this asset for the city of holland and and its citizens as well as all the kids that come from elsewhere that love to learn there as well and so it's really been a great thing to celebrate and yeah we do really thank esther van ark and her family for their patience through this whole year of conversation and for giving us the first right to think about the access to this property was very very kind of them city managers office is pleased to report following gifts in kind or nations in the amount of three hundred ten dollars was received from orange leaf holland in support of the hauen use connections cookout celebration that was held at collin park central park law nathan box attorney donated eighty dollars to the howlin and blew us up hauen donated two hundred fifteen dollars and forty seven cents for the digraph nature center expansion project and when my island gardens received cash donations in the amount of fifty eight discussion on it all in favor please say i write pose the same that passes communications from the city manager tonight we turn to the acting city manager this evening giving really have no specific communication there is a groundbreaking tomorrow i don't know if somebody will address that separately for the new hotel going to be constructed on a street and i think it was for excited about that i think everybody is invited to attend at eleven a immediately respond i know that we will get back to you it sometimes just things get back to our city of holland dot com is also a great spot to find lots of information about what's happening in the city i would try and push as much information as we possibly can out of the city's website because it's easier sometimes for people to find things there than to have to come into city hall during normal business hours so that be a first place if i'm trying to find out something about the city or things that are happening or questions that i have about everything from what's going on with the civic center to what the upcoming con this friday city of holland dot com is the first place i go there is a groundbreaking tomorrow to mention to briefly eleven o'clock a m that's hotels like downtown privileged to be invited to participate in now i have nothing to compare it at this point i've never driven a bulldozer before so it can't be worse than the snowball that's that's going to slowly slip slower and my hunch is there will not be nearly the kinds of obstacles or if while there's some nice you september one is labor day it's really early this year and you want to get up at eight am or a little before that so that you can go to the beginning of the heinz waterfront walkway which is over windmill island gardens you only have to clear cross two streets and they will be waiting there at the billion with a continental breakfast for you to enjoy free of charge so you can have a wonderful walk watching the water and listening to birds and enjoying all that is beautiful in this area and and with a little breakfast and then you could wander back to the civic center if you'd like for another event and that brings us to what a segue thank you sir and after you're done with that mighty fine walk come on down to the civic center for the eighth annual holland zealand community labor day truck parade we will be kicking off from zealand nine fifteen sharp winding through zealand coming to holland via chicago drive him twenty one twenty one whatever they want to call it now probably hitting eight street beginning eight straight about twenty twenty five minutes after that and perceiving down a street with the horns of blair in the chroma shining and ending up at the civic center where the trucks will be parked in stage for viewing there will be to have a little appetizer after the breakfast free ice cream and hotdogs perfect so come one come all to the annual zealand community labor day truck parade the largest in the country of non military convoy so be part of history be part of the fun come out and celebrate all the great businesses that we have in the in the community and  support for them sure you support for the city and what the heck it's a day off come down and see some big rigs hope to see everybody there thank you mike other communications from council tonight all right let's go back to the appointments to keep an nation from the i r c with an effective date of june thirty we have an appointment as well of robert johnson johnston sorry to this state ability committee for a two year term with that term expiring march thirty twenty sixteen i  would sorry no it's mine it's human relations commission for robert johnston no it's not the tables turned anyway so i ask for your consideration of these items and place them before you for my for your hopeful for as i'm concerned consideration movie group moved by whiteman or supported by the mayor pro tem all in favor please say i  oppose the same that passes unanimously are there any emotions reza lucian's from members of council tonight seeing none we do have a couple of first reading the ordinances now technically we did not take nine hundred eighty off but that passes unanimously then fourteen be dealing with the ice take that back we handle fourteen b already through the consent so that means that absent the city attorney giving us very bad news that we need to go to close session for something which he is smiling and shaking his that passes we stand adjourned good evening every