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HomeMy WebLinkAboutRDC November 20, 2024 JEFFERSONVILLE REDEVELOPMENT COMMISSION REGULAR MEETING MINUTES November 20, 2024 The Jeffersonville Redevelopment Commission held a Regular Meeting on November 20, 2024 that was called to order at 4:00 pm in the Mayor's Conference Room located at 500 Quartermaster Court, Jeffersonville, Indiana Board Members present: Scott Hawkins, Evan Stoner(by Zoom), Mike Moore, Duard Avery, Teresa Perkins Staff Members present: Redevelopment Director Rob Waiz, Redevelopment Commission Attorney/City Attorney Les Merkley, Grant Administrator DeLynn Campbell, Administrative Assistant/Secretary Theresa Treadway, City Controller Heather Metcalf, City Engineer Andy Crouch Guests: Josh Darby with Jacobi, Toombs & Lanz, Kevin Daeger and Chris Gardner with HWC, John Kraft with MAC Construction and Bob Stein with United Consulting. Josh Hillman with Develop Land, LLC, Jacob Vissing with Frost Brown Todd LLP, Eric Merten & Jason Copperwaite with Paul Primavera& Associates, Andrew Harp with News and Tribune. CALL TO ORDER Mr. Hawkins, President called the meeting to order at 4:00 PM APPROVAL OF AGENDA Mr. Moore made a motion to approve the agenda, with Mr. Avery seconding, passing unanimously 3-0. CONSENT REPORTS Minutes: Mr. Moore made a motion to approve the minutes from November 20, 2024 with Mr. Avery seconding, passing unanimously 3-0. Claims: Mr. Moore made a motion to approve the TIF Claims in the amount of$2,072,441.58 with Mr. Avery seconding, passing unanimously 3-0. Mr. Moore made a motion to approve the Redevelopment Operating Claims in the amount of $29,135.89 with Mr. Avery seconding, passing unanimously 3-0. JTL Ongoing Projects Update: Falls Landing Park(8th Street and Ohio Avenue) • All items are complete except installation of electrical equipment. Duke has set the meter and power is on to the lights within the park. All that remains is replacement of temporary electrical equipment with permanent long lead time items. Status same. • Final site inspection was held on 10/2/2024. Contractor working on punch list items. Falls Landing Parking Lot and Restrooms • Project awarded to Excel Excavating. JTL providing full-time inspection. • Notice to proceed issued on April 22, 2024. Contract completion date is August 20, 2024. • Project is substantially complete. Water meter was set on 9/3/24. Water is on to the new building. • Final inspection was held on 9/12/2024. Contractor has completed all punch list items. • Trees have been planted and mural has been painted on restroom building. Awaiting final invoice from Contractor. Project is now 100% complete. To be removed from future reports. HWC Engineering Project Update: • Chris Gardner — For the Hike the Pike Project, 3 parcels remain to be secured and should have those by next month meeting. Meeting with Andy on when to send out for bids. • Charlestown Pike Project — Kevin Daeger — Utica Sellersburg Road is substantially completed. Problem with Verizon due to fiber line being in the way. May hinder the targeted timeframe of end of year but actively continuing with construction. Phase 2 on Charlestown Pike, storm trunk moving forward, water line is almost to King Road. NEW BUSINESS Silos Park Contract—Jason Copperwaite-This contract is for the Design and permitting of the Silos Park we are hoping to have permitting by spring but at the mercy of State in getting the permit. Mr. Moore made a motion to approve the contract with Paul Primavera &Associates with Mr.Avery seconding,passing unanimously 3-0. BS&A Contract—Heather Metcalf this contract is for the cost for the migration to the new system. Asking for approval for me to sign the contract and Redevelopment to cover the Professional Fee of$169,050 and then the annual fee split between finance, wastewater and building authority. Mr. Moore made a motion to approve with Mr.Avery seconding,passing unanimously 3-0. Resolution 2024-R-17, Development Agreement and Purchase Agreement—Les Merkley— Before you is resolution 2024-R-17 as well as a Development& Purchase agreement on the old Eastlawn School property at 1613 E. 8th Street. In September, the Commission issued a request for proposals offering the property for $850,000. One request was received from Develop Land, LLC for $850,000. Since then, Rob and Josh Hillman with Develop Land, LLC have negotiated and come to an agreement. $850K will be placed in escrow, minus any cost on infrastructure on the property will be drawn down from the $850K with the board approval. Any funds left after the infrastructure is completed with come to back to Redevelopment. This is all contingent on a residential TIF district which Redevelopment Commission and City Council will need to approve. This will be the first residential TIF district ever established. Redevelopment Commission can recoup $850K plus TIF dollars by doing this. Develop Land, LLC plans to build 50-60 single family homes, approximately 1200 square feet at cost of$250K-$300K depending on buyers choices. This project is looking at a 3 year completion with Develop Land, LLC investing approximately $12M. This is all pending Redevelopment approving the rendering of the homes, at which time of this meeting they did not have available. They are looking to close this agreement by March 2025. Mr. Moore made a motion to approve Resolution 2024-R-17, development and purchase agreement with Mr.Avery seconding, passing unanimously 3-0. The Wheatley Group —Les Merkley—This agreement letter for The Wheatley Group is to retain them to establish the residential TIF district. For a budget not to exceed $10K, we want to get them retained to get this moving as quickly as possible. Mr. Moore made a motion to approve the contract with Mr.Avery seconding,passing unanimously by a roll call vote 4-0. QUESTIONS FOR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR I appreciate you all moving things forward, we have been working on some of these for quite a while. BOARD COMMENT Mr. Avery—Very good site, 8.8 acres 50-60 homes, this is great new site and taxes. Jeff keeps getting better and better. Glad to see this, good job Rob. Mr. Moore—What is the state pay per student in a school? Per Ms. Perkins, it depends but approximately $6400 per student. Let's just say $6000 a student at approximately 20 students approximately $120K a year from this new development. That is a couple teachers' salaries and 100 yards from Parkview. I appreciate Josh stepping in and having the vision for this. Mr. Stoner—sorry I couldn't be there in person today, but very excited to see a vacant piece of property being developed off the 10th Street corridor which I know has been the focus of Redevelopment and Council for a long time. I did want to mention an ordinance that came before council to amend some language around food trucks and transient vendors, particularly the ones sitting in the old Kroger parking lot. I don't know if there has been any conversation about that. I personally felt it was getting into telling a business what they could do with their property and language concerning infrastructure concerning electric. I just wanted to put this on your radar. Per Mr. Moore, I understand the Council did address this the other night, I want to give you the other side of the coin on that. After being a business owner for over 30 years, I hate driving by the old Kroger site seeing 5 or 6 food trucks in there when I was paying thousands of dollars in property tax and we are allowing them to take up camp and sell food out of a food truck, I will allow the health department to address the questions in the back of my mind. When you are paying property tax and paying someone to clear snow from your parking lot, there is a down side to having all of these food trucks in a vacant parking lot. I would like to see something better to go in there and if the owner would come up with a reasonable price, we buy it and tear it down to put something more in there. Please get the perspective of area business owners on this. Ms. Perkins —Congratulations to Josh, I have worked on a project with him in the past and he made it right so I know he will on this project as well. Mr. Hawkins—I echo the sentiments of the Mayor's, Josh has a great reputation for projects and I know this project will be the same. It will be sad we I cannot envision me playing football in the field there as a child once this project is done. NEXT MEETING December 18, 2024 at 4:00 pm ADJOURNMENT Mr. Moore made a motion to adjourn at 4:26 pm Scott Hawkins, President Submitted By: Theresa Treadway