Gonna call the meeting of city uh pardon me the uh committee the whole to order.

Glad to see such a large group of people here from the urban league.

I understand you have 10 minute speeches, all of you prepared for us.

So um if you can make your way up to the micro.

No, I'm just messing with you.

So glad to see all of you, all of you here.

Great.

Um, so our we're gonna take our items out of order this morning and start with uh item number two.

Uh, that is a resolution recommending.

Just for transparency for the people who did come here for number one.

Uh we're waiting on one more community partner and then we'll uh come back to that item for uh staff's requests right on.

So uh item number two is a resolution recommending approval uh by the Michigan Liquor Control Commission of a social district permit uh application pursuant to public act 124 of 2020.

Uh Mr.

Clerk, if you could.

I'm a little support.

Yeah, these are a couple downtown um um establishments asking for a social district permit.

I believe one of them is doing businesses both wild wings and that uh but they're both in the downtown um district.

Got it.

Any discussion?

I will just point out as I do occasionally that I think we should just make the whole city a social district and call it a day.

Um otherwise we're just stigmatizing people that don't have the sophistication to ask for permission for the area around their business.

Um but other than that, um all in favor say aye.

Aye, aye.

Um uh next is a similar resolution approving uh approving recommending approval by the liquor control commission of a social district uh pursuant to act 124 2020 for our brewing company uh LLC located at 738 Wealthy.

Uh, can I have a motion?

So moved to support.

Seems self-explanatory.

Any questions or comments, colleagues?

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Uh fourth is uh resolution approving an agreement with the city of Wyoming to accept and process wastewater sludge, and this is something that we are we've been working on for a while.

Can I have a motion?

So moved.

Thank you.

If you could morning commissioners, James Otz, environmental services manager.

Uh a year ago I stood before you and uh requested a six-month agreement uh with the option of a six-month uh renewal.

Uh during that time frame, we've been working with the city of Wyoming on how we can improve this and and uh make it more accurately reflect our system.

Uh today I bring before you uh three-year agreement with five optional three-year renewals.

Uh, couple things that you might want to take note of in this is that we're switching from billing on a per gallon basis to a dry ton basis.

Uh this accurately reflects the loading of the biodigesters rather than a flow.

Uh you'll see that it goes retroactive to January 19th.

Uh that's when we installed a meter on our end so that we can accurately calculate the dry tons.

Um another thing that you'll want to take note of is that it includes uh uh capital depreciation of one of the digesters, digester number three, as well as the the screens that will be needed to uh filter the sludge prior to digestion.

Um this uh this regional collaboration supports uh you know a greater relationship between us and the city of Wyoming.

Uh it supports uh environment environmentally friendly and uh responsible way to handle our biosolids.

And uh it's a great improvement for for both of us.

Great.

Thanks.

Any questions or collec comments, colleagues?

Um, I do have one question that is um you meant reference biodigester number three, and this is great because you know, more capacity is good, more biodigesting is good.

Um, as our city is the region grows, do we have capacity really long term to continue to grow the system?

Like can we add more uh uh tanks online?

So when when the system was designed, it's actually designed to where we can add three more digesters.

Uh you know, after we fully accept the Wyoming sludge, we can calculate what our true loading is, and uh we can actually accept up to 25 percent of an industrial waste and still qualify for our D3 rins.

Uh that is something that once it stabilizes, we'll calculate and see what we could potentially handle.

Okay, great.

Well, thanks for working to develop the system.

Um, seeing no further questions, colleagues, all in favor say aye.

Aye, aye, all opposed, motion carries.