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01-28-2009 EDAMEDA Board Meeting Main Conference Room — City Center 12 PM Wednesday January 28, 2009 MEETING MINUTES Members present in bold print. Members Tim Ulrich Diane Gordon VACANT Jim Haugen Staff Miles Seppelt, EDA Director Melissa Reichl, EDA Assistant Liaison Bill Corby, Chamber President Steve Jansick Marc Vaillancourt Mike McGraw I. Call to Order Tim Ulrich called the meeting to order at 12:05 PM. II. Approve Agenda No action. III. Review Meeting Minutes A. January 7th Board of Directors (December Meeting) M /S /P: Vaillancourt, Haugen to approve January 7th EDA Board minutes as amended. Passed unanimously. B. December 17th Finance Team M /S /P: Jansick, Vaillancourt to approve the Finance Team minutes of December 17th Passed unanimously. IV. Review December Financial Statements — EDA Director • As of December 31St, the EDA had $94,217 in cash available for operations and a total of $2,669 in liabilities. • The EDA has $56,736 in funds reserved for land and $34,812 in unreserved funds. • $64,886 in taxes were received in the month of December. • The Economic Development Loan Fund had assets totaling $220,289. • The Downtown Loan Fund had assets totaling $1,029,944 as of December 31St • The MIF Loan Fund had $65,502 available and $578,432 in total assets. The Board decided to table the approval of the Financial Statements until changes have been made. V. Director's Report A. Cenex Project In mid - February two of the monitoring wells will be installed onsite. Mr. Seppelt talked to a representative from Braun Intertec and the clean- up portion of the project seems to be completed. B. County EDA The County Board approved the list of candidates for the exploration committee. The committee should be having their first meeting in about a month. C. BR & E Project Staff is working with a "Leadership Group" to put together a business retention survey to help identify needs of local businesses. The in -depth survey will eventually be disbursed to 35 -40 local businesses. D. Incubator Feasibility Mr. Seppelt met with a group of MBA students and is working with them to develop an Incubator Feasibility Study. The group will try to determine the feasibility of developing a successful business incubator in our area. E. Grant Application The DEED grant application has been submitted. Staff should hear back in about a month. F. Website 1. School & hospital "Quality of life" links have been added to the website as requested. 2. RSS Feed? It was determined that further research needs to be done on this topic. G. MPR Mayor Steve Cook, Miles Seppelt, and Bill Corby were interviewed on MPR for a story based on HTI and how the community is coping after the job losses. It should be aired sometime mid - February. H. McLeod County Solid Waste Melissa is working on having a six acre parcel of land just east of the Solid Waste Facility annexed to the city. I. Company "X" Staff has been communicating with a potential company about possibly doing a project in the new industrial park. J. Warrior Warrior MFG. has expressed an interest in buying some property adjacent to their existing property. VI. Industrial Park Development A. Preliminary layout Mr. Seppelt showed the Board a preliminary layout of the new industrial park. The Board discussed the proposed layout and was in favor of continued development of the park as presented. B. JOBZ Acres The Board considered a staff proposal to move existing JOBZ acres to the Hackbarth property and to backfill the Stritesky property at a later time with JOBZ acres obtained from another community. M /S /P: Jansick, McGraw to approve the relocation of JOBZ acres. C. Establish price for land Setting a sales price for land in the new industrial park was discussed. It was the consensus of the board that the land should be sold on an "at cost" basis. VII. Downtown Gateway Mr. Seppelt presented the concept for a wall mural that may be developed in the downtown as part of the gateway project on the location of the former Pet Clinic. The Board discussed the concept and options for funding it. It was the consensus of the Board that another organization might be better suited to spearhead this effort. VIII. Grant & Loan Applications — Melissa Reichl Sign & Awning Grant Physiological Human Performance Systems 35 Main Street North $1,500 M /S /P: Jansick, Haugen to approve a $1,500 grant to Physiologic Human Performance Systems. Passed unanimously. Storefront Revitalization Matching Grant Salon Montage — Bob Schleuter 135 South Main Street $2,586 M /S /P: Jansick, Haugen to approve a $2,586 matching grant to Bob Schleuter. Passed unanimously. Commercial Rehabilitation Loan Salon Montage — Bob Schleuter 135 South Main Street $8,536 M /S /P: Jansick, Haugen to approve an $8,536 commercial loan to Bob Schleuter. Passed unanimously. IX. Other Business A. Downtown Grant & Loan Report — Melissa Melissa presented a report listing the grant and loan recipients from 2003 -2007. B. Board vacancy Mr. Seppelt, by request of the Board, prepared a letter of clarification to the City Council on their EDA Board recommendation. C. Mayor Steve Cook The Mayor stopped by briefly to discuss some business with the board. X. Chamber Update Mr. Corby gave a brief Chamber Update including the Retail Trade Analysis presentation as well as the classes being offered in response to the economy and the HTI worker reduction. XI. Set Next Meeting— January 28th XII. Adjourn With no other business to attend to, the meeting adjourned at 1:33 PM. Respectfully submitted, Melissa Reichl EDA Assistant