[0:01] we need to start without facebook live
well tim
[0:04] yeah yeah and tim
maybe give it another try in a little
[0:09] bit but
[0:12] okay that sounds good we're uh reporting
but just not live
[0:19] so it is 5 28 and we'll call this public
hearing to order recording of the role
[0:28] please
[0:32] all present thank you
and we'll open the public hearing to
[0:38] hear comment on a blight violation
of detroit de novo llc at 143 west oak
[0:46] street
parcel number 52-27-204-260
[1:01] okay as you guys can see um tom's
pulling up a
[1:05] powerpoint presentation here um
a little background on this property is
[1:11] we've had
some issues here with the previous few
[1:14] people that owned
or resided at this property um
[1:19] the most recent it was purchased from a
tax sale in
[1:24] 2000
[1:28] um we've had issues there on going back
and forth since
[1:32] this year we've sent notices on june
29th
[1:35] july 16th august 31st
so again there's some photos tom has if
[1:41] you can
go down through them on the left is
[1:45] beginning of this summer and on the
right is today
[1:49] in this afternoon um some progress made
on these two
[1:52] photos the next photos down or
the side of the building what it looked
[1:57] like
in july on the left and today on the
[2:02] right so
there is some progress being made on the
[2:05] property so i can't deny that fact that
it's gotten a lot better
[2:09] the next photos are the left one being
in
[2:14] august and the right one
right here being today and we still have
[2:19] some issues there
in the rear of the yard um
[2:24] mattresses furniture that kind of thing
that was in the house when this uh
[2:28] individual has purchased it so
[2:32] and there's one more photo on the next
slide that's
[2:36] the rear of the hull switch compared to
what it looked like two months ago is
[2:39] a lot cleaner up by the house
[2:46] i don't know if the commission has any
questions on this property or
[2:50] any comment
[3:01] is if there's no commissioner questions
or comments
[3:05] um tim is there any public that would
like to comment on this matter
[3:12] all right let me find out for you
if there's anybody present in attendance
[3:18] that would like to make
a comment to the commission regarding
[3:22] this
this property please raise your hand and
[3:26] that's by pushing the
raise hand in the lower center of your
[3:31] screen
[3:40] all right looks like we're good in it
okay thank you
[3:44] and um of the commission
any other comments before we close this
[3:49] hearing any
no okay we'll close the public hearing
[3:55] at 5 32 and
i call the regular meeting to order
[4:05] please stand for the pledge of
[4:12] allegiance
[4:17] i pledge allegiance to the flag
of the united states of america and to
[4:24] the republic
for which it stands one nation
[4:28] under god indivisible with liberty
and justice for all
[4:45] and just verifying um with tim that
um our phone link or um
[4:52] online link is working yes
thank you recording of the role please
[4:59] all present thank you
item c approval of the consent agenda
[5:07] is there a motion to approve i'll make a
motion to approve the consent agendas
[5:12] presented
thank you is there support
[5:18] motion by commissioner core consecutive
by commissioner mildren
[5:21] to approve the consent agenda is
presented any other comments questions
[5:26] roll call vote please care
[5:31] corcoran yes mildred yes
simo yes virtua yes
[5:38] motion carries unanimously thank you
item d approval of the agenda
[5:47] before you make a motion i just want to
bring your attention
[5:51] to one item and that's under old
business
[5:55] it was added to take action on the
public hearing that was missed
[6:00] so just want to make sure everybody has
that current
[6:04] agenda
make a motion to approve the agenda as
[6:10] presented
support motioned by commissioner mildred
[6:14] and seconded by commissioner corcoran to
approve the agendas presented
[6:19] roll call vote please corcoran yes
mildred yes simo yes care
[6:26] yes virgil yes motion carries
unanimously
[6:31] thank you item e are there any citizens
wishing to address the commission on
[6:36] items that are
on tonight's agenda
[6:41] okay so any um
anyone that would like to make a comment
[6:46] uh please raise your hand
and it looks like we have one so far so
[6:53] jeff barker i will allow you to speak
um and then just have to unmute yourself
[6:59] good evening everybody jeff barker here
um 1146 south washington lansing
[7:05] michigan
on behalf of some local ironwood
[7:08] residents hoping to get a commercial
marijuana permit
[7:13] i want to say again i know it's been a
long road um
[7:16] even before i became involved uh late
last year uh you guys have put in a ton
[7:20] of work on this ordinance
um and i'm really hoping that that we
[7:24] can move forward on it tonight
um i'm really appreciative of the edits
[7:30] made after the meeting
uh two weeks ago um i would still
[7:35] just point out that the signage
restrictions are still
[7:38] overly restrictive um not allowing any
graphics on the on the signage um seems
[7:46] to be hard for some of these brands to
be able to
[7:49] um to get their brand name out there um
to to set themselves
[7:55] apart from others if they're only
allowed to
[7:58] do just plain lettering for their
signage i think that's going to be
[8:03] problematic and i hope that you can
look to maybe allow graphics
[8:11] um as i mean if you if you want to get
rid of the green leaf
[8:14] um and things like that that's not a
problem um most
[8:18] most companies nowadays don't even use
that in their in their marketing for
[8:21] for various reasons um and then i would
also um
[8:26] just like to to see if the commission
would be willing to
[8:30] increase the cap that they have set um
to reduce the likelihood of any
[8:36] potential litigation
when the scoring happens um
[8:40] [Music]
but outside of that i just wanted to
[8:44] again say say thank you for your time
and consideration
[8:47] on this and i hope that we can move
forward um and we can start getting some
[8:51] applications filed in the next
couple of months so thank you so much
[8:56] for your time
i look forward to watching the
[8:59] discussion
thank you any other citizens wishing to
[9:04] address the commission on items on the
agenda
[9:09] all right so same thing anybody that
would like to address the commission
[9:13] please raise your hand
all right annette we don't have anybody
[9:25] okay
moving on to any item f citizens wishing
[9:30] to address the commission on items that
are not
[9:32] on this agenda
[9:38] all right same thing anybody that would
like to speak
[9:41] please raise your hand
[9:51] all right looks like same thing okay
thank you we'll move on to item g
[9:59] update on the kobit 19 response
[10:06] thank you we'll go through our our
normal protocol here
[10:09] and have uh paul then tom and andrew
provide any updates for the commission
[10:14] in their reactive areas
thanks scott um from the finance side of
[10:22] things
um not a whole lot to update the
[10:25] commission on
um at the last meeting
[10:29] earlier that day on august 24th i think
i had informed the commission that
[10:34] the state completed their august revenue
sharing consensus
[10:38] where they were going through the
current fiscal year budget
[10:42] state's current fiscal year budget and
and the future budgets and
[10:46] really doing some estimates on sales tax
um income tax things like that from the
[10:52] statewide level
um i'm working through that data and
[10:56] calculating the impacts to the city
i hope to have a much more thorough
[11:03] i will have a much more thorough report
for the commission
[11:07] at the next meeting when i typically
present my financial
[11:10] reports but just in short we did receive
um some cares act funding um from the
[11:17] state
this was uh the that replace
[11:22] they're calling it replacement for the
august
[11:25] statutory revenue sharing essentially
that went away
[11:28] and this took the place of it um the
amount that we
[11:32] received was about 150 percent of what
the
[11:35] august statutory revenue sharing was
supposed to be
[11:40] so it's a good thing however it is still
less than what we originally budgeted
[11:45] for so
so it didn't fully make up for it um but
[11:48] it is something again the cares act
money does come with
[11:52] some reporting requirements and there
those cares act funds
[11:56] need to be used in accordance with the
federal guidelines
[12:00] fortunately for us public safety
payroll and and other expenses do
[12:07] qualify for that
um so i'm confident that you know we
[12:10] will have plenty of eligible expenses to
use up those funds
[12:14] so those are the cares act dollars
received to date
[12:18] i did sit in on a mml webinar
this morning hoping for an update on
[12:25] two of the other programs that we've
applied for the hazard pay premium
[12:29] as well as the payroll reimbursement um
going back to
[12:33] april and may they haven't released that
information yet
[12:37] they're hoping to release that early
this week
[12:41] so that would be tomorrow and wednesday
and hopefully they
[12:45] the state will be sending out at least
the hazard pay premium
[12:50] funds later this week um they did res
they had a hundred million dollars
[12:56] available uh for the hazard pay
statewide
[12:59] and i believe they um received anywhere
from
[13:03] 40 to 50 uh 40 to 50 million
in requests so they're going to have
[13:08] some excess funds available out of that
program
[13:10] on the payroll reimbursement program
there was 200 million available
[13:15] and the requests to date were upwards of
350 million
[13:19] so with that those payments once
the state has gone through and vetted
[13:26] all of the requests it's looking like
those will be prorated
[13:30] so if you remember we submitted
reimbursement for about two hundred
[13:35] thousand dollars
for those months of payroll so we're
[13:38] probably looking
somewhere between 50 and 55 percent of
[13:42] that amount
once they go through the final approval
[13:46] so again we're waiting to hear we're
anxious um
[13:50] of course as information becomes
available we'll definitely let the
[13:53] commission know
um that's the end of my report unless
[13:58] there are any questions
thank you
[14:08] all right um thank you there isn't a lot
to report from
[14:13] community development however the grants
through the michigan restart grant
[14:17] program
are now being sent out my understanding
[14:21] is is that there are some businesses
that have reached
[14:23] received checks from the state um so
they
[14:27] those that money is being distributed
throughout our community now
[14:30] to i believe what it was 31 businesses
in the city of ironwood
[14:34] so hopefully that will help people
as you may have heard another
[14:42] cara another package at the federal
level has not passed
[14:46] so it sounds like there won't be any
more money coming to the feds until
[14:50] after the election
or from the feds until after the
[14:52] election is our understanding so
uh we do still continue to do are uh
[14:57] we're moved to now bi-weekly updates
from invest up
[15:01] where we have an opportunity to hear
what's coming back down from the state
[15:04] as
new grant opportunities are presented
[15:07] we'll definitely share them with the
community as best we can
[15:10] thank you thank you
[15:14] um from public safety not much to report
we continue to work with city staff and
[15:18] community members
on uh covert 19 issues
[15:23] we're reaching out to people if there
are
[15:26] issues we would like to be the liaison
to
[15:30] contact social service programs those
continue to be a challenge
[15:33] according to some people in our
community so if there are any issues in
[15:37] the community
uh obtaining information to these social
[15:42] service programs we do encourage them to
call
[15:45] our office to work out the details to
come in contact with those agencies so
[15:52] other than that nothing new to report
[15:56] any update on on numbers uh andrew
i don't have an update on numbers we are
[16:02] trending downwards
um in google county uh according to
[16:07] western u.p health we do see a
an uptick but that's in houghton county
[16:12] uh mainly directed with the testing at
michigan tech university
[16:17] thank you any other covet 19 updates
[16:24] no other updates thank you thank you
[16:29] moving on to item h an audience with
amber hollenbeck from the ironman
[16:34] tourism council and tim
erickson our assistant community
[16:37] development director regarding
um updating the commission on marketing
[16:43] efforts from the ironwood tourism
council and the city of ironwood
[16:48] okay thank you annette um so amber and i
uh prepared a i guess a somewhat brief
[16:55] presentation
um you know that about a month ago
[16:59] um you had requested um us to update you
on where the itc and city environment
[17:05] partnership is at
so i'm just going to share my screen
[17:10] quickly
[17:14] all right can everybody see that
yes okay
[17:21] all right yes thank you um
okay so let's see
[17:28] sorry one moment
[17:38] okay so uh
travel ironwood or iron tourism council
[17:45] so what
is travel ironwood and some of these
[17:48] questions are a little bit more
or i guess some of this powerpoint or
[17:52] presentation
is a little bit more general in the
[17:54] beginning just because
i know that a lot of the maybe people
[18:00] that are watching this
may not know what travel ironwood is um
[18:05] so it's basically the marketing name for
the enrotusm council
[18:09] and the iron tourism council is made up
of motels and hotels in the city of
[18:14] ironwood
and they are primarily
[18:18] funded directly through assessment tax
from tourists so
[18:24] and also amber and myself are the staff
members
[18:29] for the tourism council
[18:32] and maybe just a little bit of
background about
[18:36] how i guess our partnership kind of fits
in with
[18:40] the city's plan um
and you know about four years ago the
[18:47] the city of ironwood went through a very
comprehensive um branding process
[18:53] and in which we developed a a
new logo we got a brand standards guide
[19:00] a platform and a new tagline the finder
north tagline
[19:04] and all of this happened through the
conference of plan and different
[19:07] strategies
through that and then you know
[19:11] constantly taking it one step further
um you know utilizing the
[19:16] our different committees and
corporations uh like the arnold
[19:20] economic development corporation and
creating a marketing plan um
[19:25] and it just kind of all fits in together
with with our partnership
[19:30] um and a lot of what we do is
is a is focused on the attraction and
[19:37] retention of businesses
um tourists and and people into our
[19:41] community
um and then some other economic
[19:43] development mechanisms that we
that we use um with the the brand
[19:50] i guess specifically is in in helping us
market through the redevelopment ready
[19:56] communities program
the community profile
[20:02] relocation packets for to employers
priority redevelopment sites we
[20:07] advertise those
and also the the creation and
[20:11] maintenance of
our city website so all these things are
[20:15] i guess
based out of the branding and marketing
[20:18] strategy of the comp plan
and so just want to give some background
[20:23] on that
um one thing that we do the iron tourism
[20:27] council
specifically or travel ireland
[20:30] specifically
is community branding um
[20:35] and this really just kind of enforces
um or reinforces our brand um when
[20:43] when tourists are are in our community
and
[20:46] we've done that through uh the creation
of
[20:50] um most recently would be the the us2
banners
[20:54] i don't know if anybody has seen them
but every other poll on us2 has
[20:59] new banners the downtown banners as well
which was actually primarily a city
[21:06] program but
um and then different signs and and maps
[21:10] that we're placing
throughout the community that kind of
[21:13] guide maybe tourists to different
locations
[21:18] or i guess unique locations in our
community
[21:24] and then see and then the travel
ironwood website
[21:29] is is one of our i guess key key things
that we've done
[21:34] it's about a year and a half old and
it it it basically has it all
[21:41] everything that you can think of doing
in our community um
[21:46] we're out there advertising it we're
creating um
[21:49] just unique uh pictures and
and content that kind of showcase all of
[21:55] our different things
and um the travel iron website is
[21:59] is really our our um i guess foundation
to all of our other marketing
[22:05] um because everything that we do points
back to this website um
[22:12] so let's see
the next page and i'm actually going to
[22:16] turn it over to amber
um so amber if you want to yeah maybe
[22:22] take the next
um if you haven't met me before nice to
[22:26] see you all
thanks for letting us present to you um
[22:30] so travel bloggers influencers um are
really popular marketing tool that we've
[22:36] started to utilize
our first influencer we had was shalee
[22:41] wanders and she is a nationwide
and international travel blogger and
[22:47] what these people do is they come to an
area
[22:50] they um explore the area then they write
about it
[22:53] they post about it on social media um
so she came actually last year during
[22:59] platter day
and so she did a stormy chrome or
[23:02] factory tour
then she came downtown and experienced
[23:07] latter day and um the downtown and she
just thought it was absolutely amazing
[23:12] she went to copper peak she went to the
porkies
[23:15] um and then we took her on a sunrise
paddle on the guile
[23:19] and it was really great we had a really
huge
[23:22] response from her coming um
the next one we had was look about
[23:27] lindsay she's a
minnesota-based blogger she came this
[23:32] past winter
and we had her do some cross-country
[23:36] skiing
at abr downhill skiing at powderhorn
[23:39] they did some winter hiking
and also when they come they go to
[23:43] different businesses
and they kind of post about where they
[23:47] went and what they did and what they
liked
[23:49] we don't really tell them too much where
to go we let them kind of
[23:52] organically do that
and that was really well received as
[23:59] well
and then third we had my playground and
[24:03] these are two brothers from down
state and they explode
[24:10] for michigan in june
and they did black river harbor scenic
[24:17] provided copper
peak they did mountain biking they did
[24:20] all the falls paddle boarding
um they have a blog a podcast
[24:25] they're also on all social media
platforms including tick tock which is a
[24:30] kind of a newer um social media platform
for mainly younger people the videos
[24:36] that they did for us
are their most shared most like videos
[24:40] um and they are coming back this fall
for a fall color
[24:44] tour so we're going to be their first
stop and they're doing that all across
[24:48] the u.p
and we're hoping to work with them in
[24:50] the winter as well
so that's kind of what we've done so far
[24:55] um and we've had
a lot of success with that
[25:01] kind of talked about that um so we've
also
[25:04] hired videographers for videos that we
produced
[25:08] to showcase the area attractions
um events we we um
[25:14] have the sisu ski fest as one of the
events we did a video for
[25:18] um we've hired brad vara for these
videos
[25:22] um tim were you gonna share one of those
or
[25:25] yeah one sec i just have to stop one
share and move on to the next
[25:32] okay it's a little bit tricky
[25:39] okay so one thing that we wanted to just
kind of share with you
[25:43] is um is maybe one of the videos that we
produced so this is on our youtube
[25:50] channel and i will i guess make it big
[26:06] can't really hear it you can't hear it
no
[26:19] i guess we can just kind of watch it i
[26:22] guess
[26:50] so
[27:07] it's more effective with the music and
everything absolutely
[27:11] yeah but i'm sure you guys have seen
these and and you can go to our
[27:15] youtube channel and watch all of them
they're really
[27:18] pretty awesome videos
[27:43] guys so along with um hiring brad
[27:55] i can hear you yeah i think my uh
my computer froze when i stopped the
[28:00] share
amber are you able to move on without me
[28:05] yeah i'll i'll keep going
okay i'll just try to wing it here um i
[28:10] got i came back
okay so with along with brad
[28:15] um for those videos we've hired jake
ring to do some
[28:18] ironwood stories and those will be
coming out this fall and winter
[28:22] um sharing different families that why
they've chosen to
[28:27] live in ironwood and what they love
about ironwood
[28:30] um and those will be coming out i think
at the end of september we have one and
[28:35] then for the winter we'll have another
one
[28:39] we've also hired brad umvara and lexi
estella
[28:42] for photography so we could build up
our stock