[10:02] do with the parks, we have to go to the

[10:04] parks commission. So, if we had a joint

[10:05] meeting,

[10:06] >> it could just be uh

[10:08] >> Did we turn the mics on now?

[10:09] >> Yes. Sorry,

[10:10] >> man.

[10:11] >> But if you notice, yours is missing.

[10:14] [laughter]

[10:14] >> It's working, though.

[10:15] >> Yeah. There. So, there's so much

[10:18] happening here. Um, and then the final

[10:21] one that we had is a

[10:24] blight court order [snorts] cleanups.

[10:28] So, if there was somebody who had a

[10:30] court order to clean up their private

[10:31] property but weren't able to, maybe the

[10:34] NRBC could be an organization that would

[10:36] help, you know, if if it's an elderly

[10:38] person or somebody who's um, you know,

[10:41] maybe more impoverished and just doesn't

[10:42] have the resources to go, you know, rent

[10:44] a dumpster, get cleaning crews out there

[10:46] to help clean the outside of their

[10:48] property. Um, that was kind of the last

[10:51] the seventh and last idea.

[10:53] >> Okay.

[10:53] >> Um, andrew.

[10:54] >> Yes.

[10:54] >> Do you want to rate each person rate

[10:57] these?

[10:57] >> Yeah. I I want

[10:59] >> maybe give top two.

[11:00] >> Yeah. I want people to just give their

[11:01] top two out of that

[11:03] >> or three. You have three.

[11:05] >> You can have three.

[11:06] >> We'll keep it to two.

[11:08] >> Okay. [laughter]

[11:09] >> Sorry, Maddie. No, we'll keep it to two

[11:11] just to keep it concise. Um,

[11:14] >> well, could we just have it like give it

[11:16] an a number one to seven and then

[11:19] whichever number

[11:20] >> Yeah, we could do that. But

[11:21] >> the highest we could start going down.

[11:23] >> Yeah. Yeah.

[11:24] >> Or with the top two.

[11:26] >> Yeah. Yeah, we we could do that. And

[11:28] then

[11:28] >> then we'd at least know.

[11:29] >> I didn't get one.

[11:32] >> Jim, do you have a

[11:34] agenda over there?

[11:36] >> No.

[11:36] Okay.

[11:37] >> What do you want to read it off and

[11:39] everyone

[11:40] >> Yeah. So, does everybody does everybody

[11:42] have something to write with? Maybe

[11:44] >> or I can write it.

[11:45] >> Okay.

[11:46] >> I can keep track.

[11:48] >> Okay.

[11:48] >> And then I'll just add up the scores for

[11:50] each thing.

[11:51] >> Okay.

[11:53] >> If we rank it, how about one to five?

[11:56] And you can give multiple things the

[11:58] same number.

[11:59] >> Okay.

[12:00] >> And is it on the screen? Because

[12:01] >> No, it is not.

[12:02] >> He's going to read it off.

[12:03] >> I'll I'll read it off though because

[12:04] this is based on that discussion we had

[12:06] last meeting. Um, so the first item is

[12:11] new volunteer list. Um, I would rate

[12:14] this personally as a three for me.

[12:16] >> Okay.

[12:17] >> What did you say? One to five.

[12:19] >> One to five. And so that would be kind

[12:20] of

[12:21] >> five is your most important thing. One

[12:24] is you don't really care.

[12:26] >> Or

[12:30] number five will be the thing we want to

[12:32] do first.

[12:33] >> How would you rank volunteer list on a

[12:35] scale of one to five? Five being that's

[12:38] my most important. I really want to do

[12:40] that. One is just so so.

[12:44] >> Okay. So, we're going to write these

[12:45] down.

[12:45] >> No, just tell me. Yeah, you can. Okay.

[12:47] >> Oh, good.

[12:52] » A volunteer list.

[12:55] >> Yeah. Um, we didn't really uh

[12:59] >> just give a number.

[13:00] >> We didn't really uh use it that much,

[13:02] but now that you want to keep in touch

[13:04] with those people, I think it's named

[13:07] for the first two.

[13:08] >> So, do you have a number, Kathy, that

[13:10] you would give out?

[13:10] >> Well, one out of seven.

[13:12] >> One out of five.

[13:13] >> And five is really good.

[13:15] >> Yeah.

[13:16] >> I'll give it a three.

[13:17] >> Okay.

[13:18] >> Just give your number. We got to move

[13:20] through.

[13:20] >> Jim, you got a number in mind?

[13:23] >> Five is great.

[13:24] >> Five. Okay.

[13:26] >> Three.

[13:26] >> Okay.

[13:27] >> Three.

[13:28] >> So, middle of the pack.

[13:30] >> Okay.

[13:30] >> Dumpster event.

[13:34] » Five.

[13:34] >> Okay.

[13:37] >> I like three.

[13:38] >> Three.

[13:39] >> Four.

[13:43] » I guess four. Yeah.

[13:45] >> Three.

[13:46] >> Library. Little library at city hall.

[13:50] Okay.

[13:52] >> I have four.

[13:53] >> One. Two.

[13:56] >> Zero.

[13:57] >> Oh my god.

[13:58] >> We can do zero. [laughter]

[14:00] >> Zero.

[14:00] >> I challenged mine to

[14:01] >> I'm gonna try it.

[14:02] >> Zero.

[14:03] >> Yeah.

[14:04] >> All right. Next one is parks and

[14:06] alleyway cleanup.

[14:09] >> Shoot me down with the

[14:10] >> me with the parks.

[14:13] >> Three.

[14:14] >> Okay. Didn't you say three?

[14:17] >> You can do multiple.

[14:19] Okay.

[14:20] >> Three.

[14:21] >> We're just bouncing ideas.

[14:23] >> Four.

[14:25] Jim, what was yours?

[14:26] >> Two.

[14:27] Okay.

[14:28] >> Sorry.

[14:28] >> I think four.

[14:29] >> Okay.

[14:32] >> I would say four.

[14:34] >> Okay.

[14:35] >> Right. Survey for the community

[14:38] for input and to get thoughts on the

[14:40] NRBC.

[14:41] >> Five.

[14:42] >> Okay.

[14:45] >> I have

[14:46] >> three.

[14:46] >> Okay.

[14:48] >> Five.

[14:50] >> Two. I say five.

[14:52] >> Three.

[14:55] Wow, we really got a rhythm going here.

[14:56] >> This is this is going very fast.

[14:58] >> Yeah.

[15:00] >> Joint meeting with other relevant

[15:02] commissions to help coordinate

[15:05] our future projects.

[15:08] >> I sorry.

[15:10] >> All good. I got them both.

[15:12] >> Jim to you.

[15:14] >> Wow. I think we need to meet with these

[15:15] people.

[15:16] >> That's fine.

[15:16] [laughter]

[15:18] Well, you're right. Fight. I hope you've

[15:21] been going the correct order so far.

[15:24] >> I'll do five.

[15:25] >> Oh,

[15:25] >> five in some sort of a coordination. Not

[15:28] necessarily in person meeting, although

[15:29] I don't know how else that would be, but

[15:31] I think it's important.

[15:32] >> It has to be in person because of the

[15:35] freedom of information, open meetings.

[15:37] We got to have it on the record.

[15:38] >> Probably work on it.

[15:39] >> I'll say five. Maddie,

[15:41] >> did you say two at first? You're

[15:43] changing it.

[15:44] >> I changed my mind.

[15:45] >> All right. Well, that's a perfect score.

[15:47] And then the final one is blight and

[15:49] court order cleanups. That's where we

[15:51] would go and help private property

[15:53] owners.

[15:54] >> Five

[15:55] >> clean up.

[15:58] » Four.

[15:59] >> Yeah.

[16:01] >> I say two.

[16:03] >> Five. Two.

[16:05] >> Three.

[16:07] >> All right.

[16:08] >> Do some quick math.

[16:10] >> Well, I can tell you what one

[16:14] >> and that's

[16:15] >> the joint meeting.

[16:25] » [snorts]

[16:39] » I think dumpster is number two.

[16:52] It's not the library.

[16:54] >> No.

[16:55] >> it wasn't the library. That was last.

[16:58] >> Yeah.

[16:59] >> Um, joint meeting was number one with a

[17:02] perfect

[17:03] >> 30.

[17:05] >> Dumpster was number two with 23 and

[17:09] Blake court order cleanups was number

[17:11] three with 21. But I think that one's

[17:14] going to be a longer planning behind

[17:17] that. We're going to need to work with

[17:19] Tim, probably need to work with the city

[17:22] attorney, probably need to wait till a

[17:24] court order actually comes through. It's

[17:26] going to need to be a safe environment

[17:28] for us to actually go there. Um,

[17:33] obviously don't want to put anyone at

[17:34] risk if there was any concern of that.

[17:38] So, but I will keep that on the back

[17:40] burner and long term,

[17:42] >> right?

[17:43] >> But I think dumpster and joint survey

[17:45] are two things we can get done pretty

[17:48] quickly.

[17:49] >> And the dumpster will keep changing

[17:51] locations. So, I called AJ today from

[17:55] Republic and he has not gotten back to

[17:58] me yet, but I'm going to try and talk to

[18:01] him about coming up with a way where we

[18:05] can get a dumpster there and get it

[18:06] picked up before it's being overfilled

[18:10] within one day. So, we're not leaving a

[18:12] dumpster overnight.

[18:14] Um, I think ideally we'd probably want

[18:16] to get one towards the end of this month

[18:20] or early November just so that it's done

[18:23] before the winter. I know that one of

[18:27] the complaints from the first one was

[18:29] that

[18:31] you couldn't we weren't checking IDs and

[18:33] so trash could be coming from everywhere

[18:35] and there were some comments made that

[18:37] oh this is Filer's trash. So maybe if we

[18:40] do just a 8 to 5 dumpster, we have shift

[18:44] set up where everyone goes for 2 hours,

[18:47] sit in your car, check an ID, yep, good

[18:50] to go, use the dumpster. Um, and that's

[18:53] more feasible with it being a one or two

[18:56] day event versus a week. There was we

[18:59] weren't going to do overnight shifts at

[19:01] a dumpster. That's not not really

[19:03] feasible.

[19:05] So if that's good with everyone and we

[19:07] could get

[19:08] >> some maybe we could sometime put one on

[19:10] the north side too cuz we haven't tried

[19:13] one there yet.

[19:14] >> I think so. We had a blight meeting this

[19:18] past week or yesterday with the blight

[19:22] enforcement officer, Tim, the city

[19:24] manager, Bill, myself, Chief Glass, and

[19:27] Jerry. And I mentioned this event and

[19:30] they expressed interest in the 12th

[19:32] Street area. So, a little bit further

[19:35] into town from where we were before. Um

[19:38] but they have some properties over there

[19:39] that they think would really benefit

[19:41] from one in that neighborhood and they

[19:43] can

[19:44] >> the far east side as well.

[19:46] >> They can handle um distributing flyers.

[19:48] I'll set something similar up. Share it

[19:51] on Facebook.

[19:52] >> Is that what you said?

[19:53] >> Okay.

[19:54] >> Probably want to do it in by the end of

[19:56] this month because of uh leave.

[19:58] >> Yeah. That's true. So, if you guys are

[20:02] comfortable with me planning something

[20:04] like that and sharing information with

[20:06] you, if we could get a motion today, I

[20:10] can try and get something together by

[20:11] the end of the month or worst case

[20:14] scenario around our next meeting early

[20:16] November.

[20:18] >> Make a motion to have Maddie move

[20:20] forward with planning for the dumpster.

[20:22] Second for this month.

[20:24] >> You guys want to approve a a dollar

[20:26] amount? So, it was about

[20:29] 650 I think for the one dumpster. If you

[20:32] take in all of the charges of hauling

[20:35] it, that dumpster is about 550 and then

[20:37] another hundred or so for the hauling.

[20:39] And

[20:39] >> it's probably at most 700.

[20:42] >> Yeah. Do 750 to be safe.

[20:44] >> Okay.

[20:44] >> So, do you want to do one or two

[20:48] >> dumpsters? Just one? Let's just do one

[20:50] for

[20:51] >> I would do one for this.

[20:52] >> You do one or you want to do one on the

[20:53] north side like Kathy said. Um, well, I

[20:56] think we probably do mult

[20:57] >> we could do one in the spring, too.

[20:59] >> Yeah, I say we do multiple separate

[21:00] events so it doesn't have to be too much

[21:02] coordination.

[21:02] >> And then we do the thing at the armory

[21:04] with the

[21:04] >> Right. That's that's in the spring and

[21:06] then we could do late spring like we did

[21:08] last year.

[21:09] >> So, I do believe there's technically a

[21:11] motion on the floor though to approve

[21:12] the event. And so, did I get a second

[21:15] from Nick? All in favor on supporting

[21:18] this original motion.

[21:20] >> What was the dollar amount? So, do we

[21:22] are we able to

[21:23] >> do you want a a separate motion on that?

[21:25] >> No, it can be included.

[21:26] >> Okay. So, up to

[21:28] >> my motion I'll include the up to $750

[21:32] floor dumpster.

[21:33] >> Second.

[21:34] >> All in favor? I

[21:35] >> I

[21:37] >> All right. So, those other top two

[21:42] >> the joint meeting.

[21:42] >> Yeah, the joint meeting we'll have more

[21:44] discussion on at that next meeting to

[21:46] kind of

[21:47] >> I can talk to parks. I'm going to the

[21:50] October Parks Commission meeting for

[21:53] what our next new business item is um in

[21:57] two weeks. So, I can talk to them at

[21:59] that meeting. The other one was the tree

[22:02] commission. Nick, are you on that? If

[22:05] you don't mind bringing that up as a

[22:07] possibility at your next meeting.

[22:09] >> Yeah. Um

[22:10] >> see, get some feelers if there's

[22:12] interest maybe for a January meeting,

[22:14] start of the new year.

[22:16] >> I'm going to guess that January won't

[22:20] happen. I think it's February, which is

[22:24] >> what's February?

[22:24] >> We we only meet one one time in the

[22:27] first quarter,

[22:28] >> but this would be an additional meeting.

[22:30] >> Oh, okay.

[22:31] >> Because we don't meet We're not meeting

[22:32] in January. Well, that's my proposed

[22:34] agenda is what we did this past year.

[22:37] So, we took December and January off.

[22:39] >> I'm going to recommend a February.

[22:42] >> Yeah.

[22:42] >> Okay.

[22:43] >> And who's your um

[22:45] >> um John I don't know. Gosh, I get so

[22:49] much mail from him.

[22:50] >> I know who it is.

[22:51] >> Yeah, help him.

[22:52] >> Okay, I can reach out to him, too.

[22:54] >> Um, but if we did it in a month where

[22:56] they don't meet and we don't meet, that

[22:58] might be a good

[23:00] >> good additional meeting.

[23:02] >> Yeah. Not overload anybody.

[23:04] >> Yeah.

[23:05] >> A slow time year kind of for both.

[23:08] >> Okay, perfect. Well, we'll have more

[23:10] discussion on that at the following

[23:11] meeting if it's not a pressing issue

[23:13] with it being kind of maybe focused in

[23:15] the new year a little bit more. Um, so

[23:17] moving on to new business, the Ninth

[23:20] Street Public Park, um, or public

[23:23] hearing for the park. Um, Maddie

[23:26] provided information in our packets

[23:27] regarding that design and kind of why

[23:30] that Ninth Street parks being proposed.

[23:32] Um, so Maddie,

[23:34] >> yeah, I can run it over again. [snorts]

[23:36] So, the city used to have an MDNR grant

[23:41] for land on the Manasty Channel and part

[23:46] of that land was under Forano's deck.

[23:48] So, when they built that deck, there was

[23:51] some back and forth. I wasn't here. I

[23:53] don't really know exactly what happened,

[23:54] but essentially the city sold for the

[23:58] property under their deck. And in doing

[24:00] so, we have to come up with a

[24:02] replacement piece of land that serves a

[24:05] recreational purpose to the community.

[24:08] >> I thought they were using the Ninth

[24:10] Street.

[24:10] >> We are.

[24:11] >> Yeah. That's

[24:12] >> And so it can't be already recreational.

[24:14] It has to not be currently used for

[24:17] anything recreational wise and owned by

[24:19] the city. So the city has a lot on 9inth

[24:22] Street. I believe it's a standard sized

[24:24] lot. Um no nothing's on it. It's just a

[24:28] hill with some trees and the proposal is

[24:30] to do a pocket park on that property.

[24:34] And so we've been working with um the

[24:37] DNR to go through that process and the

[24:40] next step is a public hearing at the

[24:42] October 20th city council meeting. Um we

[24:46] don't have a site plan. So, this is kind

[24:48] of preliminary to the site plan if

[24:50] there's any community concerns about the

[24:52] scope of work or what's going in there

[24:55] that we can pivot before investing too

[24:58] much into the project. It's just a DNR

[25:01] requirement. Um, so I wanted to make

[25:05] sure you guys were aware of that. Our

[25:08] current proposal is really just a bench

[25:12] with a little library.

[25:14] Even though everyone voted very poorly

[25:17] towards the little library, [snorts]

[25:19] I think it would be a good fit for the

[25:21] pocket park bench. Little library, some

[25:24] signage about native plantings. It's

[25:27] going to have to have a sign that says,

[25:28] "This is a park. We're going to call it

[25:30] something." And then I reached out to

[25:32] Plantet Wild, who is going to be at our

[25:35] November meeting. And I was hoping you

[25:38] guys could work with them. and at the

[25:40] joint meeting maybe we can talk about

[25:42] what native plantings would be a good

[25:44] fit for this park. Um so that's going to

[25:47] be later. We don't need to have that

[25:48] decided before this goes to council.

[25:51] >> So meeting

[25:51] >> October 20th

[25:54] >> is there anything that you need from the

[25:56] board at this meeting though any motion?

[25:58] No, just just a heads up that that's

[26:00] what's going on. And I did when I

[26:03] reached out to Planet Wild, I asked if

[26:04] that could sort of be the topic is

[26:07] native plants. And in this project

[26:09] specifically, how are we going to go

[26:11] about choosing types of plants for that?

[26:14] >> Yeah. West of the highway.

[26:16] >> Yes.

[26:17] >> East.

[26:18] Okay. I don't know where it is.

[26:20] >> It's a kind of a cool concept. It's

[26:22] really maintenancefree that we don't

[26:24] have to spend.

[26:26] >> I have a picture of it. I can go out and

[26:28] work on that.

[26:31] >> And this is

[26:33] >> so this is the very steep steep street

[26:38] >> lot that is on ninth street.

[26:42] >> So not mowing itual. Yeah, leaving it

[26:45] wild would be great.

[26:46] >> So this was

[26:49] >> in full transparency AI generated this

[26:52] image but this was what we sort of had

[26:55] in mind. consumer.

[26:57] >> I would pull it out.

[26:58] >> Yeah.

[27:00] >> And so it's relatively low maintenance

[27:04] >> because there's not really a way to make

[27:06] it accessible as long as our path is

[27:08] wide and semifat.

[27:11] >> Okay. Okay. So, we're going down the

[27:12] hill then.

[27:14] >> Yeah.

[27:15] >> Where is this at?

[27:17] >> Yeah. Yeah. Because there was some

[27:20] >> raw land over here that I was thinking

[27:22] is where it was going to go. Okay. right

[27:24] in that area.

[27:25] >> So that's a good size area.

[27:27] >> It's not by the lake.

[27:29] >> No.

[27:30] >> So when you turn on to 9th from 31.

[27:32] >> Okay.

[27:33] >> And you're going towards Lake. It's

[27:35] pretty soon once you get down that hill.

[27:37] >> Yeah. Oh, Ninth and

[27:41] >> Cross.

[27:42] >> Yeah.

[27:44] >> Cross street.

[27:45] >> Cross.

[27:46] >> Oh. Um

[27:47] >> where Kathy

[27:48] >> boy? Yeah. It's it's it's a short name

[27:51] though.

[27:52] >> Yeah.

[27:52] Uh gosh, I can't think of

[27:54] >> right at the corner.

[27:56] >> Yeah. Yeah, that'd be nice.

[28:01] » All right. Well, so I guess there's

[28:03] really no other motion or action at this

[28:05] time for that, but it sounds like we'll

[28:07] obviously have a hand in implementing

[28:09] it, which is great. Um

[28:11] >> bike rack.

[28:12] >> And so moving on to the final item for

[28:16] today. It's the 2027 calendar. um are

[28:21] there for next year. And so we'll need a

[28:25] motion to approve what Mattie's put

[28:28] together. And so as Mattiey's mentioned,

[28:30] this is what we did last year with the

[28:32] skipping a meeting in December and

[28:34] January. Um just with the holidays being

[28:38] in that time frame. And then I also did

[28:41] the July meeting the second week of July

[28:43] which is what we did this year because

[28:46] the Thursday before the 4th of July is

[28:49] >> kind of tough to get people there.

[28:51] >> Are you skipping the 2027 December or

[28:55] are

[28:56] >> both? So when we approved this year's

[28:58] calendar, we got rid of December's

[29:01] meeting.

[29:01] >> Okay. So, we don't meet in December and

[29:04] January, but we're going to try to do

[29:06] the joint meeting in January in place of

[29:09] our meeting alone just because

[29:11] >> one more meeting.

[29:13] >> Yeah. And then in March or February,

[29:15] we'll start planning the spring clean up

[29:17] and

[29:17] >> Okay, I get it.

[29:18] >> Get our spring stuff started.

[29:21] >> I'll make a motion to approve the 2027

[29:24] calendar for the NRVC.

[29:27] >> I'll second.

[29:29] >> All in favor? Hi.

[29:30] >> Hi.

[29:31] >> All right. And then public comment

[29:34] known. Uh good of the order. Kathy,

[29:36] we'll start with you.

[29:39] >> Um I just think uh this is going to be a

[29:44] good idea. I like everything and um I'm

[29:49] excited to do it.

[29:51] >> Perfect. Jim,

[29:53] >> well, we're losing our president here.

[29:58] That's for That's for me to announce.

[29:59] [laughter]

[30:01] >> Nick,

[30:01] >> you had to come back, you know.

[30:03] >> Oh, yeah.

[30:04] >> Oh, um I don't think I have anything.

[30:06] >> Okay. Um and then as Jim spoiled for all

[30:10] of us, uh for those of you who don't

[30:12] know, me and my wife are moving down to

[30:13] Grand Rapids and so this will be my last

[30:16] NRVC meeting. I'll have to put in my

[30:18] resignation with Heather um before I

[30:22] leave. Uh but I will be leaving the

[30:25] community uh last day at the chambers

[30:27] the 9th. So just

[30:29] >> October 9th.

[30:30] >> So

[30:31] >> what are you going to be put down there?

[30:32] >> Economic development work for the city

[30:34] of Grand Rapids.

[30:35] >> Nice. Congratulations.

[30:36] >> Thank you very much. Appreciate it.

[30:42] » You don't want me to comment on that?

[30:43] [laughter]

[30:45] Um, no, I don't have anything other than

[30:47] at one point, and this was back quite a

[30:49] while ago, you I think had mentioned

[30:51] something about

[30:54] the flower containers down on River

[30:56] Street and that maybe there were some

[30:58] extra or there were a couple that were

[31:01] is that something that would be used at

[31:04] city hall?

[31:06] >> That would be something that we would

[31:08] have to double check with DPW. Um, you

[31:10] know, I know they normally or what I've

[31:12] heard, um, Brandon Prince mentioned in

[31:14] the past is that they have a couple

[31:17] backups of those big kind of cast iron

[31:19] or steel ones that are throughout River

[31:22] Street. Um, if that's the case, uh,

[31:26] that'd be something that we would have

[31:27] to probably bring up to Bill to see, you

[31:29] know, first off, can we use them as city

[31:31] hall and then kind of who would we would

[31:34] this group be the one paying for the

[31:36] plants? That's something we can figure

[31:37] out. And I think the first step is just

[31:39] making sure DPW has extra and if so is

[31:42] there some weird limitation as to like

[31:44] where they can go bas

[31:45] >> or to order additional.

[31:47] >> Yeah.

[31:48] >> And who planted those? Who were the

[31:50] people working on those? So, the

[31:54] planters themselves, uh, the DDA pays

[31:57] for the flowers. And then in the

[32:00] springtime, uh, James,

[32:03] uh, Palowski,

[32:05] who lives downtown, who's a building

[32:07] owner and resident of the district, is

[32:09] the one who gets paid to plant in the

[32:11] spring. I believe for the mums, uh, DPW

[32:15] plants the mums though in the fall.

[32:20] » Interesting.

[32:24] I'm sorry, [laughter]

[32:30] » Mark. Anything?

[32:31] >> Well, Andrew, you'll be missed all the

[32:33] way around the block.

[32:36] >> Absolutely.

[32:37] >> You know, for for our community

[32:40] leaves a big hole,

[32:42] >> but congratulations.

[32:44] >> Thank you.

[32:44] >> Um there's bigger fish to fry out there

[32:46] for you.

[32:48] >> Well, thank you. and Grand Rapids is a

[32:50] nice

[32:50] >> and you know just on a couple things and

[32:52] I know this is one of my pet peeves

[32:55] signs

[32:57] um

[32:59] if this is truly a neighborhood

[33:01] beautifification get rid of the signs in

[33:04] the city

[33:06] >> signs

[33:06] >> in the city rightways

[33:08] >> like the yard signs

[33:10] >> huh billboards

[33:11] >> yard signs

[33:12] >> yard sale signs

[33:14] >> political yard sales little temporary

[33:16] >> Yeah. Um,

[33:18] >> I've got a senior in high school.

[33:20] >> It kind of drives me nuts. So, um,

[33:23] planning will work with hopefully work

[33:25] with council that they can do something.

[33:27] And, um,

[33:28] >> well, you know, you have the the

[33:30] ordinance.

[33:32] >> Yep. And then we have to enforce the

[33:34] ordinance.

[33:34] >> I talk to the chief all the time and

[33:36] say, "Get your men to go out the car and

[33:38] take the damn signs down."

[33:39] >> Well, and then

[33:43] DPW doing it, too.

[33:45] Um then the last one is probably going

[33:48] to hurt some feelings, but deer deer are

[33:50] overrunning the community. Um people are

[33:54] wasting a lot of money and um we need a

[33:58] call. So

[34:00] >> well the thing is the last time we paid

[34:02] $30,000

[34:03] for 15 deer.

[34:04] >> Back in 2013 I had a I started a call

[34:08] that was 5,000 bucks. we'd get rid of 50

[34:10] deer and

[34:13] two new council people ruined it. I'm

[34:16] not going to say I'm not going to go

[34:17] there because I don't want my blood

[34:18] pressure to go up, but um can it be done

[34:22] again?

[34:23] >> I know a lot of good for free. So,

[34:27] >> the DNR they

[34:29] >> they have to come up and do a shooting.

[34:31] >> Yeah, I know.

[34:31] >> They take three days to do it.

[34:33] >> What about live traps?

[34:36] If we want to carry on the discussion,

[34:37] yeah, I would recommend doing it after

[34:39] the meeting.

[34:39] >> Exactly.

[34:40] >> So, I'll look for a motion to adjurnn.

[34:42] >> I'll make that motion. I'll second.

[34:43] >> All in favor? I

[34:45] >> right

Manistee City Neighborhood Restoration & Beautification Commission Meeting 2026-10-01

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