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2026-10-06 - Committee of the Whole

Summary

Built from YouTube auto-generated captions of the City's combined Tuesday morning committee stream; the posted agenda was used for the item list. Names and figures are as captioned and may be misspelled. Voice votes carried no recorded counts.

  • Proclamation: Lights On After School Day, October 22, with out-of-school-time program speakers.
  • Amphitheater noise: Advanced the Section 9.66 and Chapter 151 amendment clarifying noise-code exemptions for performance venues and the amphitheater; first-season data showed 49 public events and over 400,000 attendance, with complaints falling after the early season. See Acrisure Amphitheater Noise Complaints and Nuisance Ordinance Chapter 151 Amendments.
  • Obsolete property: Approved rehabilitation districts and exemptions for 2130 Plainfield Avenue NE and 1024 MLK. See Obsolete Property Exemptions and Districts.
  • Liquor license: Approved a Class C resort license for the downtown stadium; two agenda items were postponed to the 2:00 PM meeting.
  • 911 dispatch: See Kent County Public Safety Answering Point Agreement. Approved a new city-county intergovernmental agreement replacing Kent County Dispatch Authority governance; staff cited outdated structure and technology debt, restored dispatch funding and a $1.65 million a year bond payoff freeing capital.
  • Closed session and survey: Voted 6-0 by roll call to enter closed session for a legal opinion, then received the 2026 National Community Survey results (81% rate Grand Rapids as a place to live, 71% education and culture, 64% safety) and staff's response plan.

Agenda

Items

  1. Proclamation for Lights On Afterschool, October 22, 2026.
  2. Resolution authorizing publication and setting a date to consider an ordinance amending Section 9.66 of Chapter 151 "Nuisances" of the City Code to clarify an exemption from noise code limits for certain uses, activities and sounds.
  3. Approve a new Class C Resort License (MCL 436.1531(4)) for SMG Food & Beverage, LLC and the Grand Rapids-Kent County Convention/Arena Authority (Amway Stadium).
  4. Establish an Obsolete Property Rehabilitation District (PA 146 of 2000) for North Quarter Development LLC, 2130 Plainfield Ave NE.
  5. Approve a ten-year Obsolete Property Rehabilitation Exemption Certificate for North Quarter Development LLC.
  6. Establish an Obsolete Property Rehabilitation District for 1024 MLK LLC, 1024 Martin Luther King Jr. Street SE.
  7. Approve a ten-year exemption certificate for 1024 MLK LLC.
  8. Establish an Obsolete Property Rehabilitation District for 1956 Eastern LLC, 1956 Eastern Ave SE.
  9. Approve an eleven-year exemption certificate for 1956 Eastern LLC.
  10. Intergovernmental agreement between Kent County and the City for Public Safety Answering Point operations, funding and structure: three-year term with the option to renew for up to two successive terms.

Briefings

  • 2026 National Community Survey (NCS) results.

Sources

Note: The City's YouTube stream "Tuesday Morning Committee Meetings" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSWBY5NBhMw) appears (from its title) to cover the morning committees of this day together.

Video

The full YouTube auto-generated caption transcript of this stream is on 2026-10-06 - Committee on Appointments.

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