- Welcome, everyone. Thank you for coming to the meeting today. It is August 12th, 2026. It is 12.07 PM
- by the clock on the wall. And this is the Bloomington Urban Enterprise Association meeting. Taylor.
- Thank you. Welcome, everyone. We'll need to do a roll call. So I'm going to start over here. Sure. Michael
- Hover, B-U-E-A.
- Virginia Guthrie, BUEA. Kate Rosenberger, BUEA. Katerina Ka, BUEA. I'm sorry. I was finishing something.
- No one said it had to be in order. Heather Robinson, BUEA. Cheryl Gilliland, Deputy Controller, City
- of Wilmington. Paige Sharp, City Staff. Dee Delores, City Staff. Brad Whistler, BUEA.
- Lisa Spinelli, VUEA. All right, great. Thanks, everyone. Thank you for being here. All right, Dee, what's
- the first minutes, probably? Yep, first up is approval of minutes for July. Did anyone have any questions,
- concerns, or corrections on that?
- Motion to approve the minutes from the July meeting. Motion. A second. I'll second. All right. And if
- we could do a roll call to approve, please. Michael Hover. Yes. Virginia Gutierrez, yes. Katerina DeCalle,
- yes. Kate Rosenberger, yes. Heather Robinson, yes. Remusler Rebstein. I was not at the last meeting,
- so I can't tell you if they're record or not. OK.
- Mrs. Benelli, yes. Okay, great. Thank you. All right. D, let's see. Actually, we have some financial
- reports. Yay. Yay. All right. Gerald, take it away. Actually, I think I can give you a copy, so I'm
- going to give you the first quarter one, and then my version for this.
- All right, sorry. Yes, we apologize for the delay. I think we have gotten some of the banking issues
- resolved. It's just very interesting that statements that were coming just stopped coming. So yeah,
- and I don't know if they're actually coming now or if we're going to continue getting them. We're probably
- just going to do a poll.
- Just make sure that we have them. Whatever it is, we'll just make it work. All right. So I updated the
- packet. So our Zoom user, I will tell you what has changed. And the overall number has not changed.
- It's just like a category change. So you'll be able to follow along just fine. But I did print just
- updated copies so that you would get
- So confused. So we'll look at quarter one, which is the packet that says January through March. And
- we'll look at the profit and loss first. So basically, it's the new year, so it's showing your income
- is actually a negative because of a correction that had to be made, that it was posted in January, but
- it was actually a 2025.
- Corrections so it shows up on your financials as a negative and makes your overall Income show up as
- a negative, but you actually earn twenty thousand nine hundred fifty one dollars and eleven cents in
- bank interest for the first quarter Your Expenses for the administrative piece of it is also showing
- a negative
- because of that same correction that was a 25 error and got corrected in January. So we are showing
- insurance expense of $7,059 and then program administration cost of $14,750. So your total administrative
- expense is a negative at this point. For your grants, you expended $67,550 and that's broken down by
- your arts and culture of $15,000 and education and entrepreneurship of $45,000 and education at $3,250
- and your zone improvement grants is $4,300 to come up with that amount.
- You brought in interest of $1,661.82, and that was from your CDs. So your overall net income is a negative,
- and that is to be expected for a first quarter. Can you tell me what is project administration entail?
- Is it like wages? So the project administration is the
- the agreement between the city and the BUEA. That's the staffing of Cheryl and me and legal and all
- of that. That is an annual agreement. The money got deposited incorrectly into a different account,
- it had to get pulled out. That's why there's that correction that was made at the end of last year,
- carrying over to the beginning of this year, and that's why it's negative. They've got process for this
- coming year.
- just it was quite interesting yeah I can see that okay we'll go to the balance sheet for quarter one
- it's showing that your total assets comes to three million three hundred twenty seven thousand six hundred
- thirty nine dollars and eighty one cents and as you can see it's broken out by each of your
- accounts and your checking has that negative amount in it, which is sort of false because of all the
- changes that happen to stuff. Your assets, I just want to make a note that everything, all of your,
- all those RRF loans are still listed. DNI will be getting together in the very near future to
- zero out everything that we need to because we've had a lot of, not a lot, but we've had some of them
- have actually now made their final payment because everything was supposed to be due and then D has
- agreements that still need to be finalized and it's just gonna be so much easier to do it all at one
- time instead of here and there. It's like let's do it all at once now that the loan period is now over
- And we'll just get all that cleaned up. So probably by at least my third quarter, or third quarter,
- we should have it. Cleaned up and you'll, these all go away. And then get adjusted. So then you just
- have your total liability and equity total of about $3,417,023.77. When you look at your budget versus actual,
- You're going to see, again, this negative $50,022 because it happened in 2026, final lines, it's affecting
- your 2026 budget. So your numbers are a little off, but in terms of
- is you're just going to, you know, have to manually adjust by 20, about 29. I mean, you're going to
- end up with $2,900 basically as your administrative total for expenses. And yeah, so it's very,
- you know, it'll be difficult to explain it.
- Well, that'll just carry through. It's essentially $50,000 that we'll need to just kind of. Yeah.
- So when you, um, cause it'll skew the, all of the membership fees for the full year, it's going to be
- $50,000. So if we have $550,000 at the end of the year, then it would be 600, you know, it's just because
- it's a $50,000 negative that we're carrying.
- And as well as on your expense side, your management, you've got $89,073 balance as the budget. And
- you're going to go over that because of this. Or actually, you're going to be under. Well, I was going
- to say it will be $49,000 under because it's the opposite. Yeah, because in 2025. So it kind of washes
- out, essentially, at the bottom line. OK. Yeah.
- Okay, so yeah, so your budget to actual quarter one really doesn't have a lot of excitement, but you
- have been handing out, you paid some bills with it, which I mentioned earlier. Your grants,
- this is kind of, you can see the breakdown that you did, 11,000 with your Lincoln Arts project.
- You know, your city arts program was $4,000. And then your education and entrepreneurship grants, you
- get a $45,000 payment. Under education, you've got the Lemonade Day and the Resonant Scholarship. So
- it's pretty straightforward. Again,
- $4,300 under your zone improvement grants. So your total expense is showing $39,337. So you've started
- off really quite well, which is good. Is that order one? No, it's two. And do you need to do your approval?
- Let's just do them together if that's OK.
- We can keep rolling here. Okay So your next packet and I'm gonna actually come over here to Brad is
- it I'm gonna just let you see mine so I could speak from it. You don't mind Because this one actually
- has one of the edits on it that D asked me to make because I did a mistake so under your profit and
- loss for quarter two
- you're gonna see $76,000 come in from the period of April to June. And that's from bank interest and
- zone membership fees. You have expenses for quarter two and a total amount of $150,000. And that comes
- from 30,000 from your arts and culture grants and 45 from your zone improvement grants and 75,000 from
- your education grants. And that's where
- there was a mistake in what I said previously. So the zoom user that was it on the first packet it was
- under the seal grant. And so I corrected that. So it's under the correct school school grant from MCC
- SC. So and so when you look at your net income for
- quarter two, you have a loss of a negative income of $71,424.42. When you look at your balance sheet,
- your total asset is $3,259,590.57, and you can see each of your bank accounts
- That was as of June 30th. Again, all your assets are listed. They will go away next quarter. So your
- total liability and equity comes to three million three hundred forty five thousand five hundred ninety
- nine dollars and thirty five cents. When you look at your budget to actual through June 30th of
- which is quarter two. Your total income has been $47,897.10 and the specific breakdown is listed under
- expense for. Yes, go ahead. Thank you. Just for the clarification. So this is where we're seeing that
- from that Q1. So the P&L for Q2, this 56,328 does not
- than when we look at a year to date, because this is a year to date on the profit and loss, so 6306.51.
- So that's where we're seeing that $50,000. Just so everyone is clear on that, that's where the difference
- is. So we've actually brought in in-zone membership fees a little over $56,000, but that negative. So
- just so everyone is clear on that, because that's going to be carried forward with us the entire year
- since it was in Q1.
- So, okay. Thanks, Cheryl. Sorry. On, I'm just looking at, this is January through March, right? And
- budget for membership fees is $413,000. Yes. And what I'm looking at here is January through June, which
- is the same. So does that mean? The budget's going to stay. The budget was all in Q1? No, the budget
- is for the whole year.
- It's a YT. Oh, so this is just showing. So that budget number is the annual number. Exactly. It's not
- relative to the period here. Okay. Yeah. So can you just maybe walk me through quickly on how that actually
- comes in though? Because it looks like on this one we had $56,000 in Q2, which is much less than
- One quarter's worth of the the annual membership fee specific. Yeah, it's so it's lumpy. I guess we
- are. Yes. So the zone membership fees are different for each participating organization or member or
- whatnot. So it is heavily weighted on the cattle at Novo Nordisk payment.
- And so we are still waiting on that payment. And yes, I have been in contact with them. And yes, I am
- not happy about it. So yeah, so the lion's share of that $413,000 for the year is one payment. So that's
- why it looks very lopsided. Got it. And that's calculated as it's like a percentage of the deduction
- that they get to claim? It's 20% of the total deduction. And that's, is that deduction like mostly payroll
- tax deduction? It is actually improvement, so it's a deduction on the improvements of the assessed value.
- Got it, yeah, so it's property tax, yeah, okay.
- Thank you. Okay. All right. So expenses. Yes. So when you look at your total administrative expenses,
- you've got that negative in there again of the twenty twenty eight thousand two hundred thirteen dollars
- because of that fifty thousand. So you actually you in reality do not have a credit
- On your grants, I did make one change. I originally put $4,000 in under zone arts grants, not realizing
- that all that has been moved up to city arts program. So I made that $4,000 move up to city arts program from the
- previous report I sent. So again, total dollar amount of $45,000 in expenditures for arts and culture
- has not changed. Your total education and entrepreneur grants is $45,000. That's the same. Under grants
- education, your total expense is $78,250.
- Again, that total amounts, that amount did change because the $75,000 in the first submission that I
- provided, it was listed under zone improvement grants. So that's where one change you will see if you
- were to look back at the first version that I provided. So it is now correctly reflected
- under the school grants. So your zone arts improvement grants total is $49,300 and you can see the three
- different grants that paid out. So your total expenses end up being $189,337 through quarter two and
- your income
- is $3,311.93 for the end of June 30th. Did I lose anyone on any of this? Are there any questions?
- All right, great. Good to see this, thank you.
- Thank you for providing this for us and I'm glad you are very angry probably worked out. That's good.
- Yes. All right. And I also come in for making some changes within the the way the expenses and some
- of the deposits are recorded under ESD in their program because I reference that and it has
- So when an expense or a deposit is made if the deposit ticket doesn't say what program or if I can't
- figure it out I go to her list and she has refined that to Make it so much easier for me. So I appreciate
- your work doing my hand Thank you Cheryl for that report appreciate it all right, were there any anything
- else on financials will do a
- approval of both Q1 and Q2. All right. We have a motion to approve Q1-2026, Q2-2026 financial reports.
- I'll move that. Do we have a second? Second. Second. All right. And roll call. Michael Hover, yes. Virginia
- Gethier, yes. Katerina Call, yes. Kate Rosenberger, yes. Heather Robinson, yes. Brad Musler, yes. Lisa
- Spinelli, yes. All right.
- Thank you. Okay, Dee. All right. Woohoo! If I've used the right computer, sorry. This gets really confusing,
- guys. So, open that. Yeah, guys, I was on vacation the past week, so I don't have much of a director's
- report. You can believe that I was actually on vacation. What? I know, it's shocking.
- So really it is just an update of where we stand year to date on our grants at this point in time. So
- committed and dispersed for education. I think that's reflected in these Q2 reports for $78,250 with
- a balance of $14,250.
- Entrepreneurship, we have expended several more business economic enhancement scholarship. That includes
- the grant that we approved last month. So the total community dispersed is $55,710, leaving a balance
- of $290 in that category. That might be off.
- No, no, that's right. That's right. Well, good job, guys. We almost spent all that money. In the arts
- category, we have committed to disburse $30,000, leaving us with $180,000. I just asked her a quick
- question. Yes. That does not align with this. For some reason, the art stuff just doesn't align. I was
- just curious about that. There's $45,000 on the P&L.
- here today. So I was just wondering if there's something maybe missing in there. There are some payments
- that also carried over from 2025. Okay, so we have some 2025 payments. We do have a couple of 2025 payments.
- I can clarify that in the next meeting if you'd like for me to do that. But yeah. Just because we just
- saw this number and I'm noticing that. Okay. I will make sure that that's clarified in the next meeting.
- But what we've actually disbursed this year is $30,000. For zone improvement, we have the business building
- improvement, the accessibility modification grants that were approved last month. And I think there
- was, let me just check again. Yes, and then the safety and security for friendly beasts. So we've committed
- to disbursed $85,543.16.
- And the remaining balance that we have is, I don't know if that feels right. $124,400.56. $456.84. I
- think that I may have overlooked that number. I need to fix that. Does that feel right? Okay.
- Yeah, I guess so. It feels like I should have spent more at this point in time, I guess. We have all
- of our grantees at the bottom if you want to double check those numbers. We're spending money.
- That's great. Thank you so much.
- We're a couple of grants. We have a couple of historic facade grants that are coming to us hopefully
- next month and a business and business building improvement grants from Merth and CFC properties. There's
- just some more information that I need to get from them before I can present those grants. However,
- Merth is having their grand opening on Thursday at 1230. They're having a ribbon cutting, so.
- Highly recommend that you go see the amazing work that got done over there. It's a really, it's a really
- beautiful restoration and expansion of the building. So yeah, Merth, it's in Fountain Square Mall. Yeah.
- Yeah. So pretty excited about that project. That's at 1230 on Thursday. So I'm going to stop sharing
- that. Does anyone have any questions about any of those things?
- No. Wonderful. Okay. Well, with that, I'm going to turn it over to our new AD of the Arts, Paige Sharp.
- Great. Thank you. Hi, everybody. Hi, Paige. Excited to be here. I started at the end of May and I had
- actually consulted for the city in the spring.
- It was fun. I really enjoyed it and I thought it'd be really great to do this work. So I'm grateful
- to be in this role. So a little bit about me. I actually grew up in Indiana, in West Lafayette, so I
- think you know where that goes. And I've actually, fun fact, lived in five states. So I've left and
- come back and left and come back many, many times.
- My career has been almost entirely focused on arts administration, so spanning almost 30 years. I studied
- at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. So visual arts is my background. And I ran education
- departments in art museums, also with a local arts council in Indiana, serving 14 counties,
- largely rural. So I'm very familiar with the rural space. And then I was recruited by the Indiana Arts
- Commission. I worked there for 11 years.
- And I oversaw all of the programs as a deputy director until I left. And I thought, well, because I
- just wanted to do something different. And I thought, well, I'll consult for a while while I look for
- something else. And I really wanted to be back at the ground level. When you're with the state, you're
- in literally that ivory tower. And so I was excited about facilitating a long-term change across the state.
- But I really missed being at the heart of where things happen, you know, with the artists,
- with the art, with the communities. So this opportunity to afford to that. And so it's good to be back.
- And yet here I am still doing grant making, which is a lot of what I did with state government for like
- 16 years at both the regional and the state level.
- So I come to you today on two different things, the first of which is funding recommendations for arts
- project support from the 2026 cycle. There were a total of 78 applications, which was pretty monumental
- for this program. Yeah, it was wow. It was like, that's a lot to sift through and download and oh my
- God, can we get an online grant system? So that's a side conversation, but
- 47 in total were recommended for funding, 15 of which
- we're recommending for BU-EA funding since they meet the specific criteria which is to facilitate activities
- in the BU-EA zone. Each of them I have confirmed that indeed the activities will occur in that area
- falling under one or more of the bullet points that you see in the memo provided to you, like facilitating
- involvement in arts and cultural activities, et cetera.
- From what I understand, there's $50,000 that's been allocated toward grant funding. And so the recommendation
- today is for 31,000. So I'll be, you'll be excited to know that I will be coming back to you likely
- in December for the operation support program. Are there any questions that I can address?
- So, that is, here let me open this up real quick, sorry. We will be taking that out of, yes, the Loomington
- Arts Commission projects and operations grants. All right, thank you. Thank you, it's nice to meet you.
- Thanks for coming. She's got one more thing to,
- to update us about. Yeah, I think we're going to need to update, aren't we? Right. We just need to approve
- the funding via vote. All right. So we have awardees listed here, the totals for each individually,
- and then we've had some other information that was provided. So if there are no questions or comments
- otherwise, I would entertain a motion to approve the $31,000 in arts grants. Motion.
- Second? Second. Second. And roll call for approval. Sure. Michael Hover, yes. Virginia Gutierre, yes.
- Kettering to call, yes. Kate Rosenberger, yes. Heather Robinson, yes. Right. Whistler, yes.
- Melissa Spinelli, yes. All right. Great. Approved. All right. So we have another item. It's our arts
- incubator, right?
- That is right. So I come to the table to just request some minor changes to funding that was already
- allocated. Specifically, it was $100,000 towards the arts incubator. From what I researched, $75,000
- was going to go to construction infrastructure and $25,000 to professional development. So the modification
- request is just $80,000 to construction and then $20,000 to professional development. And I'll explain why that
- is a little bit different and also to extend the deadline for expenditure to the end of calendar year
- 2027. So this funding has been on the docket for a little while and I'll kind of lead you through as
- to why that happened. So the arts incubator was put into a 10,000 square foot facility. It was leased
- by the city.
- And indeed that is happening right now. There are artists in there and it's the lease space and those
- leases end the end of December of this year. But as the city sort of understood things and got more
- quotes, I think they recognized that there was more financial need than there were available dollars,
- in particular on the long term. So I think that's why it continues to have been on the docket. So when
- I consulted in the spring,
- And I partnered with Indiana University on a REDI grant. I don't know if you've heard about the REDI
- program, but IEDC does. And one of the focus areas the city was interested in is finding a place for
- the arts incubator artists, since this was not going to be financially sustainable. And so, working
- with the city identified, the Showers Admin Building, which is just up the street, and it had already
- gone through a lot of rehabilitation.
- And so we focused on building studios on the street level, street lower level, a total of 12 studios.
- And so the funding, the $80,000 would go towards the infrastructure again, which is construction of
- those studios and ready grant dollars.
- we're coming alongside to ensure ADA accessibility for the building as a whole in order to get it up
- to code to ensure that we can have those incubator studios up and running. It was a much better location
- because it's going to be in the trades district, which its focus is entrepreneurship. And the cool thing
- I love about artists, and I've been working with artists for many years, particularly with professional
- development programming,
- one of which won a national award for its outcomes its first year. And that is artists love to create,
- but also collaborate. And it's just organic conversations by running into other people. And they're
- like, oh, we could do this together. And they do. And so I love the idea of them being in a space in
- this building where the main floor is where offices are, where you have a marketer, a podcaster,
- And the property owner is going to really focus more towards creative entrepreneurs, but they're also
- going to be around a larger cohort of entrepreneurs in the trade district. Which is where the professional
- development comes in. So to make sure that the creatives, not just in these studios, but across
- the community and inviting regional as well, because that's where you can furthers those collaborations,
- those relationships and opportunities. So that really becomes an incubator. And so luckily, we received
- we being the collective we there was like, I think, a nine total partners in the application that was
- submitted by Indiana University Research Division. So we were funded.
- $3 million out of the $3.5 million request, which is pretty phenomenal. It was a highly competitive
- program. There are 320 applications across the state. So go team, go. I was very excited about that.
- So I was like, yeah, that's cool because I started this position. So now I get to finish it through.
- So that's super great. And then those professional development dollars will come alongside.
- Dollars that are going to amplify as well for just general support and so will be partnering with amplify
- or partnering with IU innovates and working with the region as a collective group and it can go in whatever
- direction we're going to really getting needs assessment and communication from the community so that
- what we provide is is indeed what is needed and so. I guess really the request is just those modifications.
- timeline and a slight adjustment 80,000 because the building owner felt that that would likely be the
- dollars needed in order to construct those studios and who knows at some point maybe there's more maybe
- there's less but I imagine it's gonna be more just toward it and I was like oh my
- So there's a lot of dirt still in that area of the building, but we'll get there. I'm just really excited
- that this is going to be a greater opportunity, I think, for career advancement for the folks that do
- participate in the program. Any questions? Just the studios in general, are these for visual artists?
- When you talk about the collaboration piece, are these all
- visual artists that are working in this space, but how do you envision like the incubator crossing multiple,
- when you talk about artists, that's not just visual artists, obviously. It's such a broad swath. So
- I'm curious, like, because I read the 800 capacity event venue, one of the challenges in the arts community
- for is space.
- whether you're performing dance or film and collaborations with that in music and all of that, it's
- challenging to be able to find affordable space. You may get a grant, but then you can't afford to rent
- the space and pay the musicians and the dancers. And so I'm just curious, how does that like play in
- the incubator play into that? Questions. Yeah. And I really appreciate that. Thank you.
- bring that up. At this time, we're really focusing on visual artists. There is, you know, the Trehan
- study identified the critical need for affordable studios. And indeed, this is what this is. This is
- a 10 year agreement with the property owner that we've already created like an MOU before, like during
- the grant process to outline all these things. But I want to focus, I think, on visual artists with
- these particular studios, because
- There's very specific needs that they have, as opposed to audio, music. That's a completely different
- lane. They're not going to want to be around a slop sink in paint, but they need sound needs
- in an engineering studio of some sort. So that's a completely different lane.
- of budget needs. And then there are myriad other disciplines. And even within the visual arts discipline,
- you've got a lot of subcategories. You've got traditional arts, you've got contemporary arts, you've
- got large scale painting, you've got fiber, you've got ceramics. So I figured, well, let's just focus
- on this one. That's not ideal.
- Ideally, we have artists from different disciplines and they're able to collaborate together. That's
- where the professional development comes into play. That's where you also see a lot of collaboration.
- When we talk about these particular affordable studios, this is what we have right now and what we're
- focusing on now in constructing these, but it's like affordable housing. We don't just create affordable
- housing and that's, oh, we're done.
- And check off the box. It's a this and so right now Jane and I are also evaluating what studios opportunities
- do exist in the city, and we've been networking and meeting with people. And, for example, Lauren would
- the architect.
- but he also has two studios available in his building, which who knew, right? And so we'll start having
- those conversations and are there incentives that the city could put into place to ensure additional
- studio spaces available. So while preliminarily I'm focusing, we're focusing on visual arts, but I am
- like one person and I'm very focused ensuring that we're getting input from others. So we'll be working
- collaboratively
- to develop sort of the model and the paperwork, the call and all that stuff with IU as well as other
- partners. And in the meantime, next week I have artists coming in to inform ideas on how we're gonna
- construct this space. We've got a couple of different renderings, but we need their input. What are
- their needs? That's my question was, I was interested to know the design of the space, asking,
- if you'd be open to asking presenting organizations or festival organizations like Lotus, because we
- interface with visual artists in a presentation style. So like if the, I'm gonna just give you an example,
- the Broad Ripple Art Center in Indianapolis, they have their studios for like glass blowing and ceramics and
- they open up to the outside and like a pavilion. It crosses into being able to host demonstrations of
- studio artwork in with an event like the broader art fair, for example. I wondered if that's part of
- what you're considering or if there's room for that kind of event presentation along with the studio
- style models.
- In the ideal world, yes. This space is not the ideal world, I don't think. It's an available space that
- I was able to negotiate 10-year affordable studio terms for. And in terms of the build-out, one of the
- key things was the higher priority was to be able to have a common area for them to communicate and
- blend with one another. That may change based upon the input.
- maybe they're going to prefer there at least is a carve out space for some sort of interactivity with
- the community. So right now, this is kind of where my headspace is at. But I change all the time based
- upon what other people say, because I think that's the heart of collaboration and community input. However,
- the size doesn't really allow that broader
- I mean, I know exactly what you're talking about with the Indianapolis Art Center. I've been there like
- a million times. I bike there constantly because it's so cool, right? It's great. It's got all the outside
- sculpture. And at this property, there's a big parking lot. I was just excited that they could enter
- the facility right up just off the parking lot. To an artist, that's phenomenal. You got a big old canvas,
- you get all your materials, and you don't want to be schlepping up and down stuff. You want to just
- be able to get into the entrance.
- It's smaller, it's more compact. There aren't going to be windows in each of the studios. But I think
- 12 studios in a community where there's a critical need, this is a really good start. So I'm happy to...
- An 800 capacity venue is a really nice size for... We don't have a lot of venues in the city, like downtown,
- that can hold 800 people. Right, yeah.
- a lot of like in the hunt, like under 500 and then things over a thousand. And a part of that agreement
- that I made with the property owner was free use of that top floor 500 capacity facility 12 times a year.
- So we will have that available to us. And I'll be renegotiating with him and bringing IU to the table
- to make sure that their input is also heard. Because I just was like, well, what else can we add to
- this to make it meaningful for the community? And it doesn't always have to be an event or a performance.
- Lord knows it could be some sort of art fair if it's
- Tenable for those who are going to be the users for it So it's nice that we have that available to us
- at least 12 times a year because it's you know It is intended to be a revenue driver for that building
- owner Yeah, any other questions So I think we need a motion to adjust the
- So just how the full the $100,000 allocation will be used. And then you are also asking for a timeline
- shift to the end of 2027. So I think what this will do will approve the shift and how the funds are
- going to be used. But then this will just be part of our budget for 2027 as well. So it'll essentially
- get approved again for
- 2027 budget, it'll be in there. Okay, so do we have a motion to approve the allocation shift? Motion.
- Second? Second. Second? All right. Roll call. Michael Huber, yes. Virginia Gethheri, yes. Katerina Call,
- yes. Kate Rosenberger, yes. Heather Robinson, yes. Brad Whistler, yes.
- Approved. Thank you, Paige, for all of that information. And you're off to a bang up start here with
- all of this. Thank you. Hi. Do you have anything else for us today? I do not have anything else unless
- anyone has anything for the good of the order. I have one thing that I love that they're doing affordable
- art spaces.
- And I think something we potentially we could look at too is the BUEA having a grant program for affordable
- commercial spaces that is just very similar to that, but includes all commercial spaces for like little
- startups or whatever that are doing cool things and can't necessarily afford a rent, a regular commercial
- rent in the zone.
- So like pop-up sort of situations or subsidy or? I don't have the guidelines or requirements. I can
- think about it. I think it's just me wondering. I know some of us on city council have talked about
- it that we do affordable housing, but we don't really do affordable commercial space and just like we're
- missing. I just talk about like, where am I supposed to take like shoes that need to be fixed? You know,
- like we had one on
- Washington and they left and it's just like I don't feel like that type of service anymore can like
- afford this own So just an idea that is We have the mill is supposed to be that for Information based
- businesses don't have anything for space businesses that need any sort of you know sort of physical
- And they've got some opportunities or some examples in Fort Wayne. I'm from Fort Wayne, Indiana, and
- there's actually, I think it was the GE, is that right? The old GE building? I believe, one of the old
- factories downtown, it's now an incubator. And it's mainly restaurant, but it's pretty impressive.
- It's huge, like two levels. And then there's one in Indy.
- Actually, I feel like it's around downtown, around IUPUI. I don't know. But those are mainly restaurants.
- But yes, to your point, it's so cost prohibitive to create. And you might just want to explore a food
- cart or a crafter station. And you don't want to have to necessarily go to the farmer's market. And
- you want it to be seasonal friendly. So I think that can be good. But looking into that, because I have
- friends that are in there,
- it still can be kind of costly and they do hold you to certain, which you have to if you're running
- that space, but there are certain requirements, right? I mean, it's not just like, try it out for six
- months. I mean, you do have to kind of be strict on like three or five years. We have the kitchen chair.
- So we don't necessarily, even though that's not really walkable or transit oriented, but I think we
- don't necessarily need a commercial kitchen build out potentially because folks can go there and rent
- kitchen space, either hourly or as their own physical space. But yeah, Detroit has pony ride that is
- small makers that I think would not want maybe their own space necessarily. But right, you can go there
- and get an iron work spoon, you know, you tend to like what it's very cool. There are a couple of people
- I've spoken to that have been kind of working on some of these
- this kind of project where it's kind of some service-based sort of things and more retail and product-based
- sort of things because, you know, the restaurant situation is, that's a whole different beast, you know.
- But yeah, I mean, it would be great to have cobblers. It would be great to have, you know, tailors and
- things like that where, especially in a time where people are starting to reuse things as opposed to
- going towards fast fashion or, you know, we're not being as disposable because our income isn't disposable.
- So having those things, it's really interesting. I'm happy to look into it. Thanks for bringing it up.
- I like to just, it doesn't have to be in the trades, but I'm like, can we put the trades in the trades?
- What are we doing over there? Happy to explore. Yeah, interesting. All right, thanks everybody. Thanks
- everybody. Appreciate it.