11-25-2009 EDAMEDA Board Meeting
Main Conference Room — City Center
11:30 AM Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
Meeting Notes
Members present in bold.
Members
Tim Ulrich Steve Jansick
Chad Czmowski Jim Haugen Mike McGraw
Staff
Miles Seppelt, EDA Director
Ryan Miller, EDA Assistant
Jeremy Carter, Finance Director
Liaison
Bill Corby, Chamber President
Call to Order
Note: Due to the lack of a quorum, no official meeting took place. Staff provided updates.
II. Approve Agenda
No action.
III. Review Meeting Minutes
A. October 27th Board of Directors
B. October 30th Board of Directors (Special Meeting — Hackbarth Land Purchase)
C. October 21St Finance Team
IV. Review of October Financial Statements — Finance Director
■ Cash available for operations is $65,968
■ The Economic Development Loan Fund has $83,703 in cash available and assets
totaling $205,159.
■ The Energy Loan Fund has $379,818 in cash available, $698,349 in loans receivable and
has assets totaling $1,228,167.
■ $12,421 was received in loan payments towards the Energy Loan Fund.
■ The MIF Loan Fund has $153,962 in cash available, $500,000 in grants receivable and
$558,007 in loans receivable. Total assets are $1,211,969.
■ The MIF Loan Fund collected $8,553 in loan repayments in November.
V. Director's Report
A. Cenex Site Redevelopment — DONE
All site work is complete. A final plat combining all the lots into one is being finalized.
B. Industrial Park
The good weather in November has allowed dramatic progress to be made in
construction. Most of the underground pipes are in and four of the five storm water
ponds have been dug. Construction for this season should be complete by mid -
December. Starting about May 1St there will be about 90 days of road construction and
the entire project should be complete by August 1, 2010.
C. Company "X"
Staff has provided the company with additional information about the industrial park. It
looks like the project is on the "front burner" again.
D. NuCrane
The JOBZ issue has been resolved and NuCrane can go forward on the basis of 20 jobs
being created over the next two years. Building construction is moving ahead rapidly and
the company is on schedule for a late spring start of production.
E. County EDA
Staff has prepared a draft enabling resolution, job description for the county EDA director
and a potential list of projects the county EDA would work on. If possible, another
workshop will be held with the EDA exploratory committee in December.
F. Real Estate Transactions
• Warrior — closing on the property sale should take place in a week or two.
• Purchase of remaining Hackbarth property — Purchase agreement is signed.
• McLeod County Solid Waste — may be interested in purchasing the 3.09 acre lot.
VI. EDA Board Membership
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The City Council appointed Mike Retterath and Daron Vanderheiden to the EDA Board at
its meeting last evening. A recommendation from the EDA Board is therefore
unnecessary.
B. Recommend reappointment of Steve Jansick (1St full 6 -year term)
Mr. Jansick is at the end of his term and will have to be reappointed by the City Council.
VII. Lease of Stritesky Property (accept high bid)
One bid was received for the lease of the Stritesky Property in the amount of $227.20 per
acre from Mr. Randy Luthens. This will provide the EDA with $16,670 of rental income for
2010.
VIII. MIF Loan for NuCrane Manufacturing (set terms)
The Finance Team is recommending an interest rate of 2% for the equipment loan of
$500,000 to NuCrane, with the option of a seven or eight year loan term.
IX. Additional Infrastructure for Industrial Park
Due primarily to the acquisition of the remaining 5.65 acre Hackbarth parcel it will be
necessary to build additional infrastructure to service that lot and the one immediately to the
north of it. Staff is proposing to pay for this additional infrastructure with proceeds from the
lot sale to Warrior Manufacturing. The "per acre" price of both lots would then be set at
$35,000 (with no assessments) so as to recoup this cost.
X. Grant & Loan Applications
Sign & Awning Grant Program
Corey Ninneman — Complete Self Defense $1,300
126 Main Street South
XI. Other Business — None.
XII. Chamber Update
Bill Corby, Chamber President, provided an update on current Chamber activities.
XIII. Set Next Meeting — December 23rd
XIV. Adjourn
Respectfully Submitted,
Miles R. Seppelt
EDA Director