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.