Agenda: Battle Creek City Commission

	Meeting Date:	Tue March 17, 2009 07:00 PM
	Location:	Commission Chambers City Hall
	Chair:	Mark Behnke - Mayor
	Title:	Mary Smith - Executive Secretary

PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE




PROCLAMATIONS/AWARDS 1. Proclaiming the week of March 15 - 22, 2009, as ''Inhalant Prevention Week''. Click for detail --> 2. Proclaiming the week of March 29 - April 4, 2009, as ''Severe Weather Awareness Week''. Click for detail --> 3. Beautiful Battle Creek Award Click for detail -->




CHAIR NOTES ADDED OR DELETED RESOLUTIONS




PUBLIC COMMENT REGARDING CONSENT AGENDA (LIMITED TO THREE MINUTES PER INDIVIDUAL/PLEASE STAND SIX INCHES FROM MICROPHONE TO BE HEARD CLEARLY)




COMMISSION COMMENT REGARDING MEETING BUSINESS




CONSENT AGENDA Minutes: 1. March 3, 2009 Battle Creek City Commission Meeting Click for detail --> Petitions, Communications, Reports: 2. City Manager's March 17, 2009, Agenda Report Click for detail --> 3. Ambulance Report for the month of February 2009 Click for detail --> Resolutions: 90. A Resolution appointing a member to the Housing Board of Appeals. Click for detail --> 91. A Resolution appointing a new member to the Coburn/Roosevelt/Territorial/Wilson Neighborhood Planning Council. Click for detail --> 92. A resolution approving an Industrial Facilities Tax Exemption Certificate on behalf of United Solar Ovonics, LLC, for real property located at 10 Clark Road in Industrial Development District No. 29 and having an estimated $40,000,000 for real property only. Click for detail --> 93. A resolution approving an Industrial Facilities Tax Exemption Certificate on behalf of Post Foods, LLC, for real property located at 275 Cliff Street in Industrial Development District No. 21 and having an estimated $2,110,000 for real property only. Click for detail --> 94. A Resolution authorizing the submittal of grant applications to the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) for funds in FY 2010 under the Jobs Access-Reverse Commute (JARC) program. Click for detail --> 95. Resolution authorizing the City Manager to execute a quit claim deed for certain property to Troy Barnes and Shannon Barnes Click for detail --> 96. A resolution authorizing the sale of vacant, tax-reverted property. Click for detail --> 97. Setting a Public Hearing for April 14, 2009, at 7:00 p.m. in the City Commission Chambers, City Hall, Room 301, for the purpose of hearing public comments on the Draft 2009-10 Annual Action Plan. Click for detail --> 98. A resolution setting a public hearing for Tuesday, April 14, 2009 for receiving comments on proposed permanent modifications to the truck route system. Click for detail -->




PETITIONS COMMUNICATIONS REPORTS




PUBLIC HEARING 1. A public hearing to approve revised costs and completion date for Industrial Facilities Tax Exemption Certificate Holder Yorozu Automotive North America, Inc., Certificate No. 2006-551. Click for detail -->




RESOLUTIONS 99. A Resolution adopting the 2009-2010 Community Development Block Grant and HOME Program budgets. Click for detail --> 100. A Resolution changing the boundary description for Precinct 15. Click for detail --> 101. A Resolution objecting to the annual renewal of on-premise liquor licenses in the City of Battle Creek. Click for detail --> 102. A Resolution setting a Closed Session immediately following the regular City Commission Meeting on Tuesday, March 17, 2009, in Room 302A, City Hall, Battle Creek, Michigan, on a labor matter. Click for detail --> 103 Added. A resolution to return the first City Commission meeting date in April to the first Tuesday of the month, April 7, 2009 Click for detail -->

GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT

(LIMITED TO THREE MINUTES PER INDIVIDUAL/PLEASE STAND SIX INCHES FROM MICROPHONE TO BE HEARD CLEARLY)


COMMISSION COMMENTS




ADJOURNMENT Citizens who wish to address a specific issue on the floor may do so at any time after being recognized by the Mayor or presiding Commission. At the time for public comments, after being properly recognized, citizens may address the commission on any subject. Citizens will be subject to the following limitations: Citizen comments on any Resolution before the Commission may be made either before or after the Commissioners have had an opportunity to discuss the Resolution, at the discretion of the Chair; Citizens wishing to speak to a particular Resolution should raise their hands and wait to be recognized before speaking; Citizens will confine their remarks to matters currently pending on the floor, and be brief and concise in making their remarks; If a citizen becomes repetitive or, in the opinion of the Chair, takes an inordinate amount of time in making comments, that citizen will be ruled out of order and the Commission will continue with its business; Citizens should address all remarks to the Commission as a whole, and not to individual Commissioners. These Rules will apply to comments by citizens during the Public Comment section of the Agenda. The City of Battle Creek will provide necessary, reasonable, auxiliary aids and services, such as signers for the hearing impaired, and audiotapes of printed materials being considered in the meeting, upon seven days' notice to the City of Battle Creek. Individuals with disabilities requiring auxiliary aids or services, should contact the City of Battle Creek by writing or calling the following: Deidre A. Laser Office of the City Clerk Post Office Box 1717 Battle Creek, Michigan 49016 269/966-3348 (Voice) 269/966-3348 (TDD)