- This is Monday, December 8th, 2025, the Ellsville Redevelopment Commission. We'll start with a prayer.
- Our kind and gracious Heavenly Father, we thank you for bringing us all safely here together tonight
- and we pray that you lead our thoughts and guide our conversations and help us make the best decisions
- for this town. These blessings and favors we ask in Jesus name for his dear sake, amen.
- I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands,
- one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right, the first order of business,
- approval minutes, November 10th, 2025 meeting. Excuse me, Mr. President. May we do roll call first,
- please? I'm sorry. That's OK.
- Tom Corman here. Andrew Henry here. William Ellis here. Carl Thurman here. Trevor Sager here. Larry
- DeMoss here. From November 10th of 2025. So moved. Tom Corman here. Andrew Henry. Yes. Carl Thurman.
- Yes William Ellis yes Trevor Sager yes motion passes. All right now we have the approval of year to
- date redevelop commission financial report. I did want to point out to the commissioners that. In front
- of you you have. A spreadsheet
- So you see in the first column 2025 budget, the year to date balance currently used. In order to make
- the payments for the commissioners that are eligible for payment, I need to move money. I was hoping
- to ask the town council tonight. I just wanted to make you aware from office supplies, it's highlighted
- in red. In the orange column, which should be the fourth column, is gonna show the requested amounts.
- I'm gonna move $1,200.
- up to the redevelopment commission. That's what we'll be using to pay the commissioners. And then the
- social security and unemployment tax come out automatically. So after everything is said and done, it'll
- still leave a balance of $6,192.82 for the redevelopment commission. If you need to see the individual
- claims and everything that came out, I did have those emailed in the packet that went out.
- So no action needs to be taken on this. This is just the town council will take action on it at their
- next meeting. This is just informative for the commissioners. Do you have a question on that? We are
- keeping kind of a running total of what's been used for the. Correct. So I didn't include all
- the spreadsheets with that, but the 2024 amounts that were used for claims. If when you're looking on
- the gateway or any budget forms, if you see
- in general the one one zero one five the five is going to be the redevelopment okay thank you. Any more
- questions on that.
- for that resolution. Okay, I guess we'll go down to the resolution resolution modifying confirming the
- Declaratory resolution of the Elstville redevelopment Development Commission adopted on August 11 2025,
- amending the Elstville riverfront economic development and other matters related there too.
- The commission will recall that you established the Riverfront Economic Development District as an economic
- development area last November with a declaratory resolution. In February, you passed a confirmatory
- resolution. Thereafter, there were some issues with regard to the parcel numbers and the legal description.
- In August, the Redevelopment Commission passed another declaratory resolution to try to correct that
- because under Indiana law, if there are any
- changes, if there are any changes to your paperwork. So if the map looks different, if the legal description
- is different, you have to start all over, meaning you have to start with the declared word resolution
- and then go to the Planning Commission, Council, and then back to the Re-evelopment Commission for hearing.
- So what you have in front of you this evening is a resolution to modify and confirm the resolution that
- you passed in August
- After he passed it, it did go before the Planning Commission at its October meeting. It was passed by
- the council at its second October meeting. And so now it is back before you with what I hope is the
- final, final, really final. For realsies this time, right? Parcel map and legal description. And what
- I did is I cross-referenced all the parcel numbers that the town intended to have in the TIP district,
- which were 221 parcels.
- 190 million in back in February. So that left you with 31 parcels that you had intended to put in the
- economic development area, the entirety of which is a TIP district. So again, according to statute,
- if those property owners didn't make it into the TIP district the first time around, they're required
- to have notice. So I sent letters to those property owners. There may be some in the audience tonight.
- So hopefully, like I said, what you have is the final legal and final plat map to be approved this evening,
- in which case it will go over to the auditor to get the LGA. Any questions? I have none.
- had to put it all back together again. Yep. Well, and there were some questions at some previous meetings
- about why include right away. And if you were to go to several state of Indiana right away in the district.
- And also I had to send the state of Indiana letter because there were some more parcels to be included.
- If you look it up on elevate, it makes perfect sense because what you've got with regard to some of
- these parcels is everything around it is in the tent
- And then you have this little sliver or this little triangle on a quarter of an intersection just sort
- of hanging out there. So it kind of makes sense that if it's in the middle of the TIF district or if
- it's close to other properties you intend to have in the TIF district, that those right-of-ways be included
- even though it may net you absolutely nothing in the long run in terms of TIF money. It just kind of
- makes sense to make it part of the whole.
- I think, hopefully, that answers that question that has come up previously. It does. Any other questions?
- None for me. Maybe some from the public, but none for me. This is a public hearing. Anybody has anything
- to say about this TIF district?
- So we need to vote on this resolution number 2025-01C. Say it correctly. I'll make a motion to pass
- resolution number 25-01C, a resolution modifying confirming the declaratory resolution of the Aliceville
- Redevelopment Commission
- adopted on August 11, 2025, amending the Ellisville Riverfront Economic Development District and other
- matters related thereto. Tom Corman? Yes. Andrew Henry? Yes. Carl Thurman? Yes. William Ellis? Yes.
- Trevor Sager? Yes. Motion passes. Thank you. Thank you.
- All right, now we have the privilege of the floor. Do we have anything that we'd like to discuss or
- anything? Any more comments from us? We didn't need anything? Then I will look to adjourn our meeting.
- What were you wanting to public comment? Well, I guess we have some property owners and I just is there
- details of what's going to be done or is that not known yet? So far, I think and you are sir. Richard
- and Mary Davis. We have three properties listed that will be sent to us.
- We have a couple of us real close to here, but I guess they were outside this area. Okay, what's your
- address? The ones here are 112 North Sale Street, 505 West Vine Street, 501 West Vine Street. Okay.
- And the one at 37. So now we have one at 321 Vine Street, but I think that's outside of the area.
- Okay, what has happened thus far is the condition has approved what's called certain projects for the
- area, and those projects include right now infrastructure projects, meaning the plan is to use TIF money
- to build pedestrian bridges, signs, sidewalks, street lights, relocating water mains, and replacing
- the sewer interceptor. So there's no plans to do anything else
- right now, other than to just do some basic infrastructure. I have a question. If you want to come up
- to the speaker, the podium. Thank you. OK. This probably doesn't directly concern this, but we've been
- having problems with flooding.
- in that area, and I just wondered how we could keep little tidbits of maybe some progress that's being
- made toward that. We had a flooded place, 321 Vine Street flooded out on us, and then also on Main Street.
- You know the address? It's right next to Kenny's, right by the alley there by Kenny's. And anyway,
- that one, so those two got flooded, so just wondered what's going on with that.
- you have anything to say for this? Well, we don't have any plans with this. I mean, we have plans to
- do infrastructure improvements downtown, but we haven't decided a priority. We've spent a considerable
- amount of money downtown up till now to try to mitigate some of the flooding. And so it'll continue
- to be one of our priorities.
- and maybe first in line priority, but we have looked at your area. We'll put it on the list and I'll
- start watching it when it does flood down there and see, I wrote down your address and see what might
- be able to be done in the interim until we do any major improvements. But yeah, I mean, floods downtown, so,
- It's always on our mind that I did not realize you was having problems, unless you're one of us. If
- you're by Kennes, are you just north of Kennes? North of the alley? Yeah, okay. Yeah, okay, yeah. Where
- that area does flood. But right now, one, we don't have any tip.
- And so hopefully, I mean, we had our first new building built in the downtown tip area. So that's a
- step in the right direction. But until we have funds, we wouldn't be using tip money. But we'll all
- look at what's going on there and make sure stories. That's awesome. That's awesome. We got that fiscal
- re-development bill that both of us put out. Yeah.
- They have some pictures of Sale Street, like the old funeral home, one called Sale Street, and right
- in there in the past. Because the flooding we've seen hasn't gotten that far up. But boy, there, it
- was like knee deep in the 60s, sometime in the 60s. I think sometime around there, that's when the house
- flooded down the creek. But anyway, I'll pay attention to it.
- and make sure there's nothing incidental that we could do in the interim to maybe help you out. I think
- I found it on the property, Mr. Your RVD and MDOT, we'll see. May I ask a question for you real quick?
- Did the letter explain what a TIF district really is for you? Because a lot of people get confused with
- all these terms we use that's kind of government speak.
- Did that explain that or? Well, I did mention there about, like you were saying, crossover bridges and
- sidewalks. Where that TIF district, it really doesn't change what you do with your property. What it
- says is that, and this is in broad strokes, I'm not speaking in legal terms, so Darla, don't be upset,
- that it kind of freezes your assessed value where it is from the, so that every, because normally when
- you collect taxes, it goes to the whole town.
- Some goes to the county, some goes to the school. With a TIF district, it kind of says, okay, this was
- the amount we started the TIF district. Any new growth in this whole area, that all will be reinvested
- into that small area again to do these projects.
- For the actual taxpayer, for the most part, it's invisible. You're not gonna see anything other than
- those improvements we talked about. So did I say anything that needs to be legally corrected? So yeah,
- you're good, and thank you for letting us know. I'm on the council also, and Trevor down here is, and
- it's something we're very aware of and looking for ways to address that. Okay, thank you. Well spoken,
- William. Thanks. Any other questions?
- Comments? So the merger's not on the agenda. 630, the council meeting, that's correct. Three organizations.
- Yep. Merger, same thing. Colloquially. All right, anything else? This meeting's adjourned.