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.