10 November 2021 Dearborn County Redevelopment Meeting Notes
Present: Diane Bender, Chairman, Dave Deddens(via telephone), Jim Helms( via telephone), Jim Deaton, 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.
Claims – $124.05 to Register Publications for Public Hearing Ad; $10,000 to One Dearborn for second quarter billing: $3,800 to Baker Tilly for services re: dissolution of Skally’s TIF and expanding W. Harrison TIF; $1,680 for TIF Neutralization; $840 to Drake Lawn mowing 12 times.- Approved.
Next meeting is Thursday January 13, 2021. The 2021 meetings will be the 2nd Thursday of every other month at 9 AM
Financials – Review- passed out.
PUBLIC HEARTING TO BEGIN AT 9:10 A.M.
Open Public Hearing re: Dissolution of TIF Allocation Area & Amendment of TIF Allocation Area/ED Plan
Comments and Questions from the Public- no comments
Unanimously approved the dissolution of Skally’s Allocation Area. Unanimously approved the amendment of the West Harrison TIF allocation are and Economic Development Plan to include the former Skally’s TIF Area.
Close Public Hearing
9:15 AM continued the DCRC regular meeting. Jim Helm hung up and left the meeting for a funeral.
OLD BUSINESS: Dyke Industries wants to lease a billboard from them. $450/mo was high side for fun one side. Other side is $300 total The one that Dyke wants is lit and needs trees cleared. $400 for first year while we are cleaning it up and maybe $450 after that. Perleberg said there are lights on both sides, maybe only one side is functional. Dave Deddens was authorized to negotiate with Dyke Industries and contract someone for tree removal for visibility. Or he can do it himself and bill the DCRC for the removal. Dyke wants eastbound side.
NEW BUSINESS: none
ONE DEARBORN REPORT: Perleberg updated on Dyke Construction- foundation done and concrete tilt up walls going up. Maxwell is doing it. Roofing is coming up. Met with assessor regarding how the building is assessed during assessment. The building has to be 40% complete to be assessed. Those visits are done in Dec or Jan. The assessment will be a 50% assessment so they need to be aware that the 2nd assessment will be 100% and a higher bill.
Topsoil spread on the Guilford properties and they will be seeded and spread this time of year. He’s talked to Nicole Daily on this.
Met with Tom Stone and the farming contracts on the properties. He asked if DCRC if they would reconsider the path to access the billboard. The farmer will not farm it next year. If this acre moves then they can access the farming and it saves DCRC mowing that. Potential complication - the current path is packed down. The new path would be softer until worn in. Approved to move the path.
Perleberg wanted to open up for discussion- 15 acres on one side and 25 or so on the other, He wanted to know if they want to use a broker as that is how Dyke came in. DCRC willing to explore that. The one who brought Dyke and he can bring in other broker options at their January meeting. He thinks you can learn a lot by talking to them. He can get with Diane and narrow it down to 3 or so and bring into January meeting.
New marketing video for West Harrison and St Leon property. They leveraged their involvement with the I-74 group to get these done. This raises awareness of the properties along I-74.
Deadline for all regional plans to be submitted. They could get up to $50 million for each region. 17 regions in the state. IEDC said funding decisions would be out by end of this year. He and 2 others for our area will be there for the presentation in 30 minutes and 20 minutes for IEDC to Q and A them.
ATTORNEY’S REPORT- none
OTHER BUSINESS- bonding to be done for members for 2022
ADJOURNMENT - 9:40 AM
Christine Brauer Mueller
Lawrenceburg Township
