REGULAR MEETING OF THE MIDLAND CITY COUNCIL

City Hall, 333 W. Ellsworth Street, Midland, Michigan

April 24, 2000 7:00 p.m.

AGENDA

CALL TO ORDER - R. Drummond Black, Mayor

PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG

ROLL CALL - R. Drummond Black

John S. Coppage

Hollis H. McKeag

Marty A. Wazbinski

CONSIDERATION OF ADOPTING CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS:

All resolutions marked with an asterisk are considered to be routine and will be enacted by one motion. There will be no separate consideration of these items unless a Council member or citizen so requests during the discussion stage of the “Motion to adopt the Consent Agenda as indicated”. If there is even a single request the item will be removed from the consent agenda without further motion and considered in its listed sequence in regular fashion.

APPROVAL OF MINUTES:

* 1. Approve minutes of April 10 regular and April 17 special City Council meetings. KOVACEVICH

PROCLAMATIONS, AWARDS, RECOGNITIONS; PRESENTATIONS:

2. Update on the 2000 Boards and Commissions Recruitment Process. TISDALE

PUBLIC HEARINGS:

3. To solicit additional comments for further amendment of the definition of “Family”. (Also see material sent in April 10 agenda packet.) BRANSON

4. City Manager’s Proposed 2000-01 Budget. (Also see material sent in April 10 agenda packet.) FISHER

5. Budget amendment for projected spending in certain funds with budgets or financial working plans. (Also see material sent in April 10 agenda packet.) MOL

6. Amendment of the Transportation (Dial-A-Ride) Financial Working Plan. (Also see material sent in April 10 agenda packet.) MOL

7. Budget amendment for Downtown Development Authority Fund. (Also see material sent in April 10 agenda packet.) MOL

8. Budget amendment for Various Capital Projects. (Also see material sent in April 10 agenda packet.) MOL

PUBLIC COMMENTS, IF ANY, BEFORE CITY COUNCIL. (Please sign up before meeting with City Clerk)

RESOLUTIONS:

* 9. Authorizing the sale at public auction of unclaimed personal property being held by the Police Department and other departmental surplus items. MEYER

10. Accepting a gift from the Currie family for the construction of a clubhouse at Currie Golf Course and authorizing staff to work with Dow, Howell, Gilmore to develop construction drawings. MCGUIRE

* 11. Establishing a park in the Hillside Subdivision and naming it Theis Park. MCGUIRE

* 12. Approving the purchase agreement for the sale of a C.H.O.I.C.E. house at 308 Bradley Road. STANDFEST

13. Giving tentative and final approval to the Preliminary Plat of Ashford Estates No. 1, a residential subdivision of 8 lots on 2.5 acres on Mark Twain Drive extended east from Waldo Avenue. OSTGARDEN

* 14. Establishing the City of Midland Post-Employment Health Care Fund. FISHER

* 15. Approving an economic development loan from Community Development Block Grant funds. FISHER

* 16. Accepting an easement agreement for water mains for Hedgewood Apartments. MCMANUS

* 17. Revising the Industrial Facilities Exemption Certificate for Soo RoMal Plastics, Inc. within the Tri-City Plastics Industrial Development District No. 1 relating to new facilities by specifying the certificate will be for 12 years with an ending date of December 30, 2012. ELBERS

18. Considering contracts and purchases:

* a. Snow and Ice Control Salt - DPS. MCGUIRE

* b. 2000 Local Street Reconstruction; Contract No. 6. MCMANUS

* c. Contract for Sanitary Sewer Bond Issue Design Engineering Services with Ayres, Lewis, Norris and May. MCMANUS

* d. Biosolids Land Application Contract – Wastewater. BUSH

e. Ferric Chloride Contract Extension Renewal – Water & Wastewater. BUSH

f. One Omega Lime Slaker – Water Treatment Plant. BUSH

* g. Payment to A. A. Schoenwald Associates, Inc. for contracted appraisal services in the defense of the assessment appeal by the Midland Cogeneration Venture. BRANSON

* h. Payment to Miller, Canfield, Paddock & Stone for contracted legal services relating to the Bay City Road Interchange Project. BRANSON

* i. Payment to Miller, Canfield, Paddock & Stone for contracted legal services in the defense of the tax appeal by the Dow Corning Corporation and The Dow Chemical Company. BRANSON

* j. Payment to Reed, Stover and O’Connor, P.C. for contracted legal services in the defense of the assessment appeal by Meijer, Inc. BRANSON

19. Setting public hearings:

* a. 2000-01 Proposed Community Development Block Grant Budget (5/8). FISHER

* b. Zoning Petition No. 455 – rezone property on the east side of Waldo Avenue south of East Ashman Street from Office-Service 1 to Office-Service 2 (5/15). OSTGARDEN

* c. Establishment of an Industrial Development District for W & W Tool & Die, Inc. (5/8). ELBERS

* d. Expansion of the McKay Industrial Development District No. 1 (5/8). ELBERS

NEW BUSINESS:

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