The Grand Haven City Council on Jan. 5 approved a package of routine and specific items: a contract to upgrade the supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system at the Northwest Ottawa Filtration Plant, continued the Principal Shopping District special assessment program, approved routine minutes and bills, and voted to go into a closed session for a confidential legal opinion.

Council voted unanimously to award a contract not to exceed $104,887 to West Michigan Instrumentation(s) to replace aging SCADA hardware and software used to run the Northwest Ottawa Filtration Plant. Eric Law, the plant superintendent, described the system as the plant’s operational control suite and said the incumbent installer performed the 2016 installation and submitted the lowest responsive bid.

"This is kind of equivalent to what a pilot uses when he flies a plane," Law said, describing the SCADA system’s role in collecting inputs and providing control feedback to plant operations. He told council the vendor is a long‑standing service provider to the plant and that bids were competitive.

Earlier in the meeting the council approved the consent agenda, which included minutes for Dec. 15 and Dec. 17 and a bills memo totaling $2,022,810.37. The motion carried on a roll call vote with Fritz, Lyon, Calio, Dora and Maneta recorded as voting yes.

During a public hearing the council considered a resolution to continue the Principal Shopping District and related special assessment districts (numbers referenced in the public record). With no public speakers on that item, the council adopted the resolution after a motion by Kaleo and second by Lyon; the roll call vote recorded unanimous support.

In public comment earlier, resident Zeb Bosco urged the council to adopt a more active "holistic forestry" approach, warning the city’s current forestry plan risks continued tree loss and urging soil and ecological remediation rather than wholesale removal.

Near the end of the agenda, Councilor Fritz moved and Councilor Dora seconded a motion to enter closed session to consider a confidential legal opinion; the motion passed on a roll call vote. Council announced it would adjourn immediately after completing the closed‑session matter.

No further administrative actions were taken in open session after the closed‑session motion.