9 January 2020 Dearborn County Redevelopment Meeting Notes

9 January 2020 Dearborn County Redevelopment Meeting Notes

Present: Jim Deaton, Chairman, Dave Deddens, Jim Helms, Diane Bender, Alan Goodman. 

ABSENT: Jamie Graf (non- voting school board member)

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 by Deaton.

REORGANIZATION:Delayed election of officers to the next meeting at the request of Dave Deddens and all agreed. Executive session for the board ONLY to talk about employment issue. Scheduled for January 16th at 8 AM with public meeting at 9 AM

APPROVAL OF MINUTES- Minutes from December 11th meeting were approved with Deaton abstaining as he was on present by phone and only for the executive session. 

CLAIMS AND FINANCIALS- Barnes and Thornburg, and One Dearborn, and Attorney fees were approved for total of $24,535.50

UNFINISHED BUSINESS:none- Blighted properties under One Dearborn report from Mike Perleberg

NEW BUSINESS:none

ONE DEARBORN REPORT: Mike Perleberg- ordered appraisals to be completed by end of Jan. Don’t need appraisals on Stone as the County already owns it. Clinton $455 per home and will do for $50 less if both homes can be done together ($425 each) Bourquein and Johnson were two owners but the houses are not occupied. If county doesn’t buy them they go to FEMA and get condemned and are no longer able to be built on as it’s in the flood plain. These can be transferred to Commissioners or turned into occur fields etc with eta Guilford Park nearby. Cannot tear it down unless we own it. 

Randall- on the spec building project- The sites had new challenges. Skalley’s was going to do a big detention pond. Crossdocks is trying to divert the stormwater thru an existing culvert to use for this. The pond would take too much land. Projects looking at other portions of the land from Cushman Wakefield want to build to suit and then looking at Crossdocks for that.

Perleberg  the 13.1 acre site along Johnson Fork Road. And the new best available flood plan map update now includes most of that parcel in the 100 year flood plain. Got Scott Mosier on the phone the engineer to see if DNR can put more scrutiny on that to be sure it’s really in the flood plain. It’s usually a 6-8 week process to get that done- but it has been accelerated to 2 weeks. The engineer has researched and he sees discrepancies with his models already. Working with planning and zoning on this also and they are working with Maxwell on some projects so they have Archie Crouch out there from Land Consultants shooting the elevations all over the project. They have been marketing their property for 4-5 or more years. Using all their connections to get the process checked. 

Randall- Crossdocks has some good engineering to get the drainage done. The spec building gets people to look- but they usually want another one, smaller perhaps so they look at the developer. That’s why people love spec buildings. Almost daily phone calls with the engineers and consultants trying these out. Had a project that didn’t work out on the West Harrison TIF along the rail. Trying to get some Brownfield work done too. When the fireworks store leaves it’s a brownfield. 

Johnson Fork has road project for 2023 and this engineering plans are seeing the flood zone issues down there. Helms expressed frustration on the changing rules while they had projects planned. 

Randall said they’d be seeing Mike Perleberg tagging along and he’s doing a great job taking the lead on many of the projects.   

ATTORNEY’S REPORT: no report.

OTHER BUSINESS: none

ADJOURNMENT - 8:33 AM

Christine Brauer Mueller

Lawrenceburg Township