- Welcome to the City of Bloomington Redevelopment Commission meeting. Recording in progress. OK, welcome
- to the City of Bloomington Redevelopment Commission meeting of November 17, 2025. We'll start the meeting
- with a roll call, please. C. Scambaleri here. Brandi Cassidy here. John West here. Deborah Meyerson
- here. So staff present, please. Anna Killian Hanson here. Christina Thinley here. Tammy Caswell here.
- Jessica McCallan here.
- Anna Dragovich, Economic and Sustainable Development Department. Jane Krisman, Economic and Sustainable
- Development. Dana. Dana Kirk, legal. OK, thank you all. First item on our agenda is the minutes from
- November 3, 2025. Any questions or comments from commissioners? If not, I will entertain a motion. Move
- for approval. Second.
- All in favor say aye. Aye. And I'm abstaining because I was not present at that meeting. Thank you.
- So next item on our agenda is examination of claim registers. We have November 7, 2025. Any questions
- or comments, commissioners, on this claim register? If not, a motion is welcome. Move approval of the
- claims register for November 7, 2025. Second.
- A first and a second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion passes unanimously. Next on our
- agenda is the examination of payroll register, which is October 31, 2025. Any questions or comments
- from commissioners on the payroll register? If not, a motion is welcome. I'll make a motion to approve
- as presented. Second. A motion and a second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed?
- Motion passes unanimously. We are now up to our reports from officers. Hi. I don't have a formal report
- this evening. I do want to flag for you that the Treats District Hotel will be going to BZA on Thursday
- night. And so if anybody would like to tune in, feel free to do so. Thank you. Do a legal report.
- I have no report, but I'll figure for questions if you have any. Thank you. Treasurer's report?
- No treasurer's report, but I'll be reporting to you with the last item on the agenda. OK, thank you.
- And business development update? Not today, thank you. OK, sounds like a unanimous pretty much over
- there. OK, so we're on to new business. And first item on our agenda is resolution 25-133, rejecting
- all bids from the public offering for Hopewell 80 blocks 1, 2, and 3.
- Would I speak to that? I mean, do you need a rock, paper, scissors? It doesn't matter. There was,
- as you know, the public offering for those blocks. The offers that did come in, the bids that did come
- in, were not ones that would be able to be completed based on limitations of funding and such.
- Um, and so there also it became apparent that, uh, that public offering wasn't necessarily realistic
- to that, that, that project. So, uh, there's going to be a change in direction on how to go with that.
- But one thing that we need to do is just to reject those, uh,
- bids that we received at the public offerings that are in the resolution. And then we can move forward
- and start evaluating other alternatives for that area. Go ahead. Any questions or comments from commissioners
- on resolution 25-133? Is that a situation where after we take a vote on this, then we'll inform the
- individuals that did present?
- I'm just wondering if there's any updated timeline that might be shared in terms of just for the public
- to understand where Well East is headed. I don't know that we have a specific timeline of course we're
- trying to get all areas of Hopewell going as quickly as possible and so it's quite the undertaking right
- now on the south but
- we're getting there, I would anticipate having a new offering sometime in 26. OK. Great. Thank you.
- If there's no other questions or comments. I do have a follow up on Randy's question. Can I assume that
- those that made proposals, somebody's been in touch with them. That was last April. So this is not the
- first time they're hearing something correct? I believe so.
- Anything else? If not, I'll open it for public comment for Resolution 25-133. I don't see anything online
- or in person. I will entertain a motion for this resolution, please. Move approval of Resolution 25-133.
- Second. Got a first and a second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion passes unanimously.
- Next item on the agenda is Resolution 25-134, which is a
- Acknowledgement of extension of feasibility period of the real estate conveyance and project agreement
- with All-UN Jew Trades District Hotel LLC for the Redevelopment Commission property located within the
- trades district. Who would like to speak to that? I don't have a whole lot to say except for the feasibility
- study or the feasibility period of their offer to purchase expired in December.
- They are set to go to BZA this week with a targeted plan commission date in January, which means that
- they need a little bit more time. So they're exercising what was in their offer to purchase, which is
- an extension of 30 days. So that's what this does. It's just acknowledged that we are extending that
- for the end of January. Thank you. That's the only thing it does. Yeah. OK. Any questions or comments
- from commissioners on resolution 25-134?
- Just from a procedural standpoint, the VCA on Thursday, the Plan Commission in January, is there any
- other approvals that are going to be necessary to keep this moving forward from a public standpoint?
- My understanding is that we should be OK after Plan Commission, assuming that they can get through the
- Plan Commission. But they're doing a really good job. I will say they've really worked hard to try and
- meet all of our requirements and timelines. They've been moving very quickly.
- A 30-day extension seems completely honorable. I agree. After playing commission, then it can go through
- the permitting process. Thank you. Any other questions or comments? If not, I'll open it for public
- comment. If not seeing anything online or in person, I'll entertain a motion for resolution 25-134.
- I'll make a motion to approve as presented.
- Sorry, I didn't hear you. I'll make a motion to approve as presented for resolution 25-134. I'll second.
- Okay, first and a second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion passes unanimously. Next item
- on the agenda is resolution 25-135, which is the adoption of the Bloomington Green Development Commission's
- annual spending plan for 2026. And it looks like we have our treasurer here to comment.
- Good evening, commissioners. We are presenting to you for the second time the RDC spending plan that
- has to be approved by the RDC and submitted to the DLGF. And this outlines very broad categories what
- the RDC is going to spend money on in the upcoming year. Most of the expenses are in, what's that category called?
- Most of the expenses are in capital expenditures. And that includes, I believe, over $9 million in bond
- debt service payments. Oh, no, debt payments is up above an A. In capital expenditures, that comes from
- kind of an estimate of what was spent over the last two years in things such as Hopewell, sort of very
- traditional RDC infrastructure expenses. So that is where the bulk of your spending
- will come from next year, that's what we're planning on. We did move the BuzzCurt Chumley support into
- the grants and contributions line there. That's the $75,000 plus 15% professional expenses and operating
- expenses, which we usually don't use operating expenses and other anticipated expenditures are sort
- of miscellaneous.
- The details behind all of these numbers are in the packet from the previous meeting. The grant align
- was the only comment that I got, so we did make that change. Otherwise, everything is as exactly the
- same as it was last meeting. I can take any questions. Thank you. Based on this funding, the spending
- plan, that gives us adequate flexibility to maneuver in any of these Hopewell or
- other areas that we have so we don't have any to come back and realign this spending plan. We have adequate
- flexibility within this. You are correct. If we wanted to amend the spending plan, if something came
- up, we would bring the spending plan back to you in the year in which you want to do that spending and
- then it's completely fine if you ever in the future want to amend a spending plan.
- Is that something that we would then have to present to DLGF in regards to? And we would just send it
- up to DLGF, yep. As soon as you sign it, then we would send it up and we would just continue on our
- way. Okay, thank you. Any other questions or comments? I don't have a question, but I just have a comment.
- Because we're kind of flying through this probably from public record, we've spent several meetings
- and a lot of time
- working on this, and this is a formality more than anything. It's a culmination of several hours of
- reading time and our time listening to them make presentations. So it's a good plan, but it didn't just
- happen tonight. No. Very good point, yes. Yes, thank you. There is public record of the previous
- presentations that would, again, kind of help provide that detail.
- as mentioned earlier. Okay, well, if there's no further questions or comments from commissioners, I'll
- invite any public comment, nothing online or in person. I'd invite a motion please on resolution 25-135.
- I'll move approval of 25-135. Second. We've got a first and a second. All in favor say aye. Aye.
- Any opposed? Motion passes unanimously. Thank you.
- We're now on to business general discussion. Is there anything further that would be useful for the
- commission to hear or discuss at this point in the agenda? I don't have anything happening to answer
- any questions. Is there anything we can do to help you guys? Being here is helping us. Thank you.
- Well, if there's nothing else, I'll invite a motion to adjourn. So moved. He's doing it again. I know.
- It was a quick thing. 13 minutes. Debra, you missed the three out. I know, but I heard there was a six-minute
- goal that I did not meet. There was a six-minute meeting. Six minutes? Six minutes. Six-minute meeting
- that Sue was commenting on as a previous record. I think one's a functuary kind of.
- Yeah. So we're in the running, but not quite. That's pretty good. Well, thank you all. Thank you.