11 January 2018 Dearborn County Redevelopment Meeting Notes

11 January 2018 Dearborn County Redevelopment Meeting Notes

Present: Jim Deaton, Chairman, Dave Deddens, Jim Helms, John Rahe, and Jamie Graf (non- voting school board member)

ABSENT: Alan Goodman

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

ELECTION OF OFFICERS:Jim Deaton is President and Dave Deddens is Vice President. Jim Helms is Secretary. All 3 are the same as last year.

MEETING DATES AND TIMES: Every other month on 2nd Thursday at 8:30 AM. Deddens will be missing in March but OK for the rest.

APPROVAL OF MINUTES- Dec 7th minutes approved.

UNFINISHED BUSINESS:

Completion of Land Purchase- 2 changes made to the agreement at the closing. The right of first refusal will be for the price offered at the time.So the county will pay more than they first had written in. 

 The price for farming the area will be $3500/year so the county gets more for that then they had asked for, which was $1,000. 

New sign in West Aurora TIF Randall Avenue- Randall said she had worked om the RFP for a log time and had trouble getting an RFP for the sign done .She went on at length about how many companies she looked at and some boilerplate RFPs. She wants to looks at local companies too and have about 4 companies to visit with a couple DCRC board members to partner with her in getting this done. Maybe have one or two come into the March meeting with a presentation etc. Then set a meeting with the companies on Randall Avenue and then decide how they can put their individual signs up. They will also know what sizes are needed for visibility from the road. The board decided to have Deddens get some of his sign companies to them with ideas also. They will look at this again in March. Rahe just wants to get this done. [Note: To be fair, the have been playing with it for a long time without much progress, as they cannot seem to decide what to do about individual signs for the businesses there. We seem to spend a lot of money incentivizing business to come here, but have trouble with cooperative ventures on signage for them once they are here. The board might need to decide what their policy will be for this and all future endeavors.]  

Visioning Grant Tabled from 11/7/17 One Dearborn Invoice- continued to be tabled. Baudendistel still not finished. And other issues seem to be unsettled.

TIF Fund Claim- Barnes and Thornburg reviewing plans for redoneTIFs. Also Land Consultants for Stone Property paid.

CLAIMS AND FINANCIALS- board looked over them and some will be updated by Pennington as the settlement came in.

NEW BUSINESS: This section of notes seemed to hop from topic to topic….

BillBoard leases- Randall said there are two billboards - but one has 2 sides. She needs the lease contact info. If you decide you want to use one to market and one has lease ending in May and others from then thru July, the info would help. Deddens said they can have a LAND fro SALE vinyl tied on each side and his cost was $800 a side, when he used them for his business. Tad Feiss at Signarama can do this. Find out when the leases are up and send them notices now per Deddens. The signs are going to be for the land in TIFs for sale. The sign at Johnson Fork and 74 is the one the county wants to actually use for the Land sale. They may do a few more calls and see what the lessees want to do also. They will get that by next month (Andrea and Randall) Tamara suggested they check with companies and see if they could use their signs for a few months at a time and they would still have partial rental income form the billboards then. 

Demolition of house on property in West Harrison-Randall-  had RFP ready to go but as a governmental owner they have to do some checking on asbestos etc. About $1000 to have a pre-demo inspection. No decision yet. 

Randall- There is a portion of the property that might be in the flood plain. They need to get someone out there to get elevations and then request a revision of the flood maps to avoid having to get flood insurance. $2500 to get the streams on the map that don’t exist now corrected by Banning also. [NOTE: Banning did this with Randy Maxwell for another property a couple years ago and it didn’t work out in the county’s favor after some expense.] 

Randall wants to get the Indiana site selected certified. There are 3 levels of certification. Banning looked at that and will give a price to take us thru the whole process. They have a baseline marketing piece from Duke Energy.

There are Site Selectors at a conference in Cincinnati soon. Indiana has been invited to some of the private groups there and to speak at one of the dinners. She wants to get a short video clip and also the certification to get this done for that conference. She wants to do all that in the $10,000 scope. [NOTE: In a previous meeting, the county was not invited to the $15,000/table dinner- did something change?]    

One Dearborn REPORT: see above also. Randall also talked about Rack in the Aurora Industrial Park. She’s going to have more info on how to market them.

Randall - only other lose end from Duke site readiness report was the access easement by Hirlinger. The deed has this and she needs affirmative document in her packet to confirm that the easement exits. She asked Andrea to get that and Andrea said that depends on if it exists. There are 3 references to that element and some are for the adjoining farmers. Andrea will check this.

Helms said that when I-74 was built there was a lot of dirt moved so the creeks may be from pre 74.[ NOTE: The studies and permits for the construction of an interstate would have covered those changes though. Perhaps Listerman could enlighten them on this.] 

ATTORNEY’S REPORT- nothing more. 

OTHER BUSINESS:Ted Naegle was brought up by Rahe and they are working in that.?????

Discussion regarding Sunman-Dearborn School District- there was an email passed around and wanted to discuss working together with Dr. Jackson ( superintendent) on redevelopment. Deaton wants to know how to respond to him. He looked at p45 of the Redevelopment handbook.It tells what we can do with the schools. Deaton wants to raise the subject and get them thinking about it. Jamie Graf board member was present and spoke about it. Specifically St Leon TIF. The assessed value and the TIF dollars could be shared back with the school district. [Note: The letter from Dr Jackson was sent out quite a while ago- is this a new one? ] 

Randall said that there were conversations with Greendale and her counterpart- Al Abdon also like this. She said that we need a good plan on good places to grow and letting developers know about these. She’s thinking they need to bring more students to the schools. She went on at length about bringing One Dearborn to school boards to see what they can do together. Graf will update the board tonite about what they discussed today. Rahe put it in more perspective with the purposes of Redevelopment and how it can spill down to getting business here first. They also discussed how Greendale’s Redevelopment shares with their school district in Lawrenceburg.[NOTE: Sunman Dearborn has TWO TIF districts in it’s area in  our county.]

[NOTE: It should be noted that DCRC has one perspective and the schools have another. There is a third pinning and taxation concept that both need to remember. When it come to tax base- residential development is a loser for school taxes. Residential consumes more than it pays in. Business is close to break even without TIFs as their taxes are higher and they produce no children who consume the school tax income. Lastly Agricultural uses produce more tax than they consume. So saying we need more students implies more residential development, with increased costs of roads and infrastructure and maintenance. That is not the answer. We need a BALANCE.]

St. Leon TIF was the highest fund but not much activity now. 

One Dearborn is having their first ever strategic planning meeting per Randall. they need to figure out and prioritize what projects will hit the home runs. 

Deddens asked when their contract is up with One Dearborn. (July 2018.) They need an executive session to discuss what they will be doing with that. They set one for February 8. They will decide and see what Alan Goodman can do. At 8 am followed by public meeting.  

ADJOURNMENT - 9:42 AM

Christine Brauer Mueller

Lawrenceburg Township