10 January 2019 Dearborn County Redevelopment Meeting Notes

10 January 2019 Dearborn County Redevelopment Meeting Notes

Present: Jim Deaton, Chairman, Dave Deddens, Alan Goodman and Jamie Graf (non- voting school board member)

ABSENT: Diane Bender, Jim Helms (surgery recuperation).

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

Title VI statement read as legally required.

Election of Officers- same as last year:

President- Jim Deaton

Vice President-Dave Deddens

Secretary- Jim Helms

APPROVAL OF MINUTES- November 19 and December 5 minutes tabled again as the quorum present was not the quorum for the meetings.

CLAIMS AND FINANCIALS

$10,000, Unity Scientific (tabled from last meeting – to be paid from Whitewater Mill TIF)- TABLED again as Nagel hasn’t done their part yet per Randall.

 $30,000, Signarama for Aurora Business Park Sign, $950, Umbaugh for Project Butterfly – both to be paid from W. Aurora TIF and $2,442.61, Ewan Law Office for legal services 7/10/18 thru 12/19/18 - Approved

Financials passed out for cash balances.

UNFINISHED BUSINESS:

Hirlinger Chevrolet Update- nothing new on them

EDA with Nagel and Sons- Randall said economic development agreement was signed by them. The DCRC should wait to sign until they get the payment to Unity Scientific for their portion so it can be paid together. 

Billboard Contract Updates- Super 8 will not be renewed per Ewan. Deddens said he might have one or two new people wanting to use the sign. Fireworks guy has not responded and as of August no one has paid. they have till Jan 31 to get current. Randall wanted to use one maybe for branding us as having property for businesses. Batesville had one for the I-74 corridor. Discussion regarding getting others to use the signs even CVTB maybe.

NEW BUSINESS:

Jim Deaton brought up School Boards and the requirement from new legislation that you invite school boards to a meeting and have a report for them. They are planning on doing this in March meeting.

The impact letter is due in July and Sue Hayden patterns that one on Pittman’s past ones with the data added from Auditor. 

Discussion on if and what the percentage of TIF would be to go towards the work force development for the schools. Also discussion on capital improvement fund for that. They were looking at NEW development and not diminishing those funds already set by previous business. 

Randall said that economic development of the state recommends staying away from sharing the dollars with the schools with perpetual stream of funds.There is a philosophical difference of opinion on whether they are hurting the schools with TIFs. Jamie Graf said he will give update at Sunman Dearborn school districts tonight. No decisions.   

ONE DEARBORN REPORT: Drone Video of Property for REDI Cincinnati Marketing Piece- Randall said the drone footage looks nice and Randall will drop box it so they can view it. She got it to REDI in the deadline. She wanted to make sure they had full rights to the footage. She hopes they will be one of the finalists to have that used by REDI marketing. Cushman Wakefield will see this also. This would be a great use of Duke funds to get this info out per Randall. Blast of the property went out to 3400 people in the Cushman Wakefield database and netted 6 calls. She said we are getting exposure. Randall- Out of 40 plus leads last year and the majority need an existing building.That’s where you get the developers involved per Randall. Cushman Wakefield has data on what is being built and needed in the state. Greendale has a lot more money in their TIF and we can see what they build for a spec building if they do. She said the only way to do it is to use the former Tootles property [Note: Why not name the current owner of the property?] Contacted Port for rail and Gennessee Wyoming Railroad and talked. DCRC members said the Tootles property has access issues and fill needed. [NOTE: This all seems to feed back to Maxwell owned property]

ATTORNEY’S REPORT- nothing more

OTHER BUSINESS-none

ADJOURNMENT - 8:52 AM

Christine Brauer Mueller

Lawrenceburg Township