16 October 2017 Dearborn County Redevelopment Meeting Notes

16 October 2017 Dearborn County Redevelopment Meeting Notes

Present: Jim Deaton, Chairman, Dave Deddens, and John Rahe, 

ABSENT: Alan Goodman, Jim Helms, and Jamie Graf (non- voting school board member)

Also present:Sue Hayden, county administrator and minute taker, Andrea Ewan, attorney, Gayle Pennington, Auditor and DCRC treasurer.

Title VI statement reading was waived as I was the only public present.

Memorandum for Executive Session- read by Deaton to verify that they only discussed what was advertised. Approved.

Actions on executive session- Board gave One Dearborn to enter into discussion for Project Haze. 

APPROVAL OF MINUTES- Sept 21 minutes approved

UNFINISHED BUSINESS: none

CLAIMS AND FINANCIALS- Barnes and Thornburg claim for $1871.71 for the three TIFs revisions. 

NEW BUSINESS: John Rahe said that the meeting with Duke they said FEMA is collecting insurance up to the 500  year flood level. That will be costly for some of our land in the 500 year flood level. Ewan said that it has to do if they have a lender and it has to do with older parcels too. Rahe said that will be expensive to buy land in the West Harrison TIF. Randall said that she will continue to look into that. She thinks it is not as big a deal as the 100 year flood level. Ewan said it is up to the lender. They often look at it in relation to the building. Some are pickier and look at the entire parcel. No decision. 

ONE DEARBORN REPORT: Aurora Industrial Park Sign Demo Project- Randall received one bid at $1800- Alpha Demolition- Jeff Caudill in Sunman on Lawrenceville Road. He was professional- they do a lot of demo projects. If you want to move forward, Andrea Ewan should review the agreement. Two other quotes came in late and they were more expensive- between $3-5,000. Alpha was lower probably because they have their own equipment etc. Board approved proceeding with Ewan to review.

Randall went on to say they went thru the Duke Readiness Project and they gave us a lot of positive feedback and said our site was shovel ready. They will provide the final marketing piece after it is edited. They have to decide whether to demo the one residence that is there? You don’t have to demo the building per Duke, but it does make it quicker for development. They may make it gold certified by the state. Duke said to leave it open- rather than subdivide so that even a 50 acre site could be had for that. She wants to report on that at the next meeting.

ATTORNEY’S REPORT- Ewan said they did get approval from Commissioners on all the amended TIF plans. Denny Kraus had issues with some of the Land Descriptions and they are working to clean up that for auditor etc.

Deaton- There was one PC member that did not like TIF at all. Randall basically said that it went thru. Ewan said that Denny is making the descriptions work for Auditor etc. 

OTHER BUSINESS- none 

ADJOURNMENT - 9:30 AM

Christine Brauer Mueller

Lawrenceburg Township