WEBVTT 00:00:01.602 --> 00:00:08.656 - Recording in progress. I pray. Heavenly Father, thank you for this day. I pray you bless the work of 00:00:08.656 --> 00:00:16.130 - our committee, that we would be wise and diligent in doing our work for the good of this town. In Christ's 00:00:16.130 --> 00:00:23.323 - name we pray, amen. Amen. Our father, religious to the flag of the United States of America and to the 00:00:23.323 --> 00:00:30.238 - Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. 00:00:32.898 --> 00:00:41.246 - I always pray with my kids at bedtime. We have to pray. We say the Lord's Prayer. So I'm getting my 00:00:41.246 --> 00:00:49.929 - memorized stuff out of order. All right. Election of officers. So you explained just before we started, 00:00:49.929 --> 00:00:58.277 - Darla, that the vice president and vice roll call. Roll call. Andrew Henry. Present. William Ellis. 00:00:58.277 --> 00:01:00.030 - Here. Carl Thurmond. 00:01:00.290 --> 00:01:07.972 - Here. Trevor Sager? Here. Larry DeMoss? Here. And for the record, the current position of president 00:01:07.972 --> 00:01:15.732 - is vacant. So the Indiana Code states that five members are to be appointed and each person serves a 00:01:15.732 --> 00:01:23.491 - year unless they're filling out someone's term. So when you started the Redevelopment Commission and 00:01:23.491 --> 00:01:29.022 - you were new, the statute said that you finished out your calendar year 00:01:29.154 --> 00:01:35.905 - plus one year, which you've all done. So the voting members now, their terms are all up. And so what 00:01:35.905 --> 00:01:42.991 - we need to know is, you know, if you're willing to serve, then you can be reappointed by the town council 00:01:42.991 --> 00:01:50.009 - this evening. For now, if you want to go ahead and elect your officers, that's fine, because the statute 00:01:50.009 --> 00:01:56.894 - always says, also says you serve until your replacements are named. So technically, you're still good. 00:01:57.410 --> 00:02:05.365 - but the town council will be addressing it this evening. So you need a president, a vice president, 00:02:05.365 --> 00:02:13.479 - and a secretary by statute, Noel's the treasurer, and the president and the vice president have to be 00:02:13.479 --> 00:02:21.593 - from different appointing bodies. So the president of the town council appointed the citizen members, 00:02:21.593 --> 00:02:26.366 - and the council appointed the two town council members, so. 00:02:33.634 --> 00:02:40.947 - different president, so was that incorrect last time, should we have? Because if, okay. I mean, it's 00:02:40.947 --> 00:02:48.115 - nothing major, I'm just, so Trevor, I have to be one of them. Right, correct. Not it. You want it? 00:02:48.115 --> 00:02:55.355 - I mean, I don't mind staying on for secretary, if you want to do. That's right, secretary. Yeah, do 00:02:55.355 --> 00:03:03.102 - you want me secretary? Because I'd love for you to do minutes. No. You wouldn't like the way I do minutes. 00:03:04.322 --> 00:03:11.905 - We met, talked, and that would be about it. All right. Unless Andrew wanted to do president and he could 00:03:11.905 --> 00:03:19.343 - do vice president. Sure, yes. He could do that if he wanted to. I would prefer to stay where I am. OK. 00:03:19.343 --> 00:03:27.070 - Well, if anybody wants to entertain a motion, I'm not going to nominate myself. So I move that we nominate 00:03:27.070 --> 00:03:29.886 - William to serve as president. Second. 00:03:35.938 --> 00:03:44.408 - Andrew Henry? Yes. William Ellis? Yes. Carl Thurman? Yes. Trevor Sager? Yes. Motion passes. Thank you, 00:03:44.408 --> 00:03:52.961 - William. You're welcome. All right. And I will nominate Andrew Henry as Vice President, because we need 00:03:52.961 --> 00:03:58.142 - to make that official, right? Yes, please. Do I have a second? 00:04:05.954 --> 00:04:14.456 - Andrew Henry? Yes. William Ellis? Yes. Carl Thurman? Yes. Trevor Sager? Yes. Motion passes. And are 00:04:14.456 --> 00:04:23.128 - all of you still willing to serve if the council's? Yes. Thank you. Yes. Yep. So I guess we also need 00:04:23.128 --> 00:04:32.990 - to appoint a secretary. And you're taking that? I'll take it. All right, I nominate Trevor for secretary. I second. 00:04:38.626 --> 00:04:49.442 - Senator Henry? Yes. William Ellis? Yes. Carl Thurmond? Yes. Trevor Sager? Yes. Motion passes. 00:04:49.442 --> 00:05:01.178 - Thank you. All right. Have we had any interest for the final vacancy? For the vacancy here? I've been 00:05:01.178 --> 00:05:08.542 - talking to one person. He's right now running for town council. 00:05:08.962 --> 00:05:19.395 - He just does not have the bandwidth to add anything on, but he's looking to. So I have had no luck. 00:05:19.395 --> 00:05:30.036 - Anything from you, Mike? Well, no. I think I've been so busy I haven't given a real good thought, but 00:05:30.036 --> 00:05:35.774 - I'll throw some names at you in the next couple weeks. 00:05:38.754 --> 00:05:47.120 - We can post on Facebook for interested parties. If you're a town resident, why can't we generate some 00:05:47.120 --> 00:05:55.649 - interest via Facebook? If you put qualifications or things, if Darla could create something, that could 00:05:55.649 --> 00:06:04.097 - be one way to narrow down the field of people. I mean, just to get this thing filled. Right. Actually, 00:06:04.097 --> 00:06:07.870 - I have someone in mind just thought about it. 00:06:08.898 --> 00:06:20.766 - I believe this person's on the finance committee and shares the middle hyphenated name with my last 00:06:20.766 --> 00:06:32.753 - name. Yeah. See, you really threw everybody for loop there, didn't I? Former BEDC background. Should 00:06:32.753 --> 00:06:36.670 - we proceed to the minutes? Okay. 00:06:37.218 --> 00:06:44.076 - approval minutes from December 8th. Is that what's in here? We all have to just pass this around and 00:06:44.076 --> 00:06:50.866 - sign it or decide afterwards. Just don't leave without signing them. That's all I ask. So I'll make 00:06:50.866 --> 00:06:57.656 - a motion to approve minutes for December 8th. I second the motion. Andrew Henry? Yes. Carl Thurman? 00:06:57.656 --> 00:07:01.662 - Yes. William Ellis? Yes. Trevor Sager? Yes. Motion passes. 00:07:06.434 --> 00:07:13.413 - approval of the year to date redevelopment commission financial report. So every time you guys meet, 00:07:13.413 --> 00:07:20.738 - I try to do an up to year to date annual report. This shows, I know in the past I've given you the report 00:07:20.738 --> 00:07:27.787 - where it just shows the beginning balance and then the end balance. This was just a breakdown of what 00:07:27.787 --> 00:07:33.246 - actual services were paid out. So you could see at the top that $1,050 was for 00:07:33.346 --> 00:07:41.684 - the Redevelopment Commission annual salary, Social Security unemployment tax, and then the miscellaneous 00:07:41.684 --> 00:07:49.625 - professional expenses that came out of there. The initial budget that the town council had approved 00:07:49.625 --> 00:07:57.884 - for the start of 2025 due to additional appropriation was $50,000. We expended $43,405.73. Most of that 00:07:57.884 --> 00:07:59.710 - was, if you will look, 00:07:59.906 --> 00:08:07.636 - in there for the redevelopment commission, the legal services setting up through Baker-Tilley. So for 00:08:07.636 --> 00:08:15.744 - the 2026 budget, the amended budget is $27,496. That's taking into account increasing the board commission 00:08:15.744 --> 00:08:23.550 - for $100 per meeting and the ancillary social security and unemployment taxes that go along with that. 00:08:23.682 --> 00:08:29.537 - The expectation is that because we're not setting up the TIF districts from scratch, that Baker-Tilley 00:08:29.537 --> 00:08:35.278 - services won't be expensed as much, but if we need to adjust the budget next year, we certainly can. 00:08:35.278 --> 00:08:41.076 - So if there's any questions, I can answer those. And we discussed as a commission also in the council 00:08:41.076 --> 00:08:46.078 - when we did this that once this starts generating revenue, we'll put this back into the 00:08:46.658 --> 00:08:55.027 - Correct, so that's why you'll notice at the top, it specifically says expenditure department is 005, 00:08:55.027 --> 00:09:03.479 - redevelopment, and that's so that I can track it separately in the general fund. And what's not spent 00:09:03.479 --> 00:09:12.926 - reverted back to the general fund, correct? Correct, so that's 6,594.27 went back into the general fund, correct? 00:09:14.402 --> 00:09:21.831 - And will that annual TIF financing report be a recurring item basically every September? Sorry. Say 00:09:21.831 --> 00:09:29.334 - that one more time. There's a line item that says annual TIF financing report. Correct. That will be 00:09:29.334 --> 00:09:36.911 - every September? Yes. So this, the next item that you guys see will be the acknowledgement of the TIF 00:09:36.911 --> 00:09:40.254 - management plan and that will be under that. 00:09:42.850 --> 00:09:52.944 - There's a lot of reporting on the gateway that goes along with the TIF and since this is new for the 00:09:52.944 --> 00:10:03.438 - town and for me as a clerk treasurer, not missing reporting deadlines is very important. So Baker-Tilley 00:10:03.438 --> 00:10:11.134 - has, their expertise comes in very good. So you need a motion for that then? 00:10:11.778 --> 00:10:20.670 - Yes, please. Okay. Are there any other questions before we move to a motion? In public comment. Oh, 00:10:20.670 --> 00:10:29.296 - sorry. Any public comment? At this time? Anybody online? Or is this? No, no one is online. Okay. 00:10:29.296 --> 00:10:39.166 - All right. I make a motion to approve the year to date redevelopment commission financial report. I'll second. 00:10:41.506 --> 00:10:47.624 - Andrew Henry? Yes. Carl Thurman? Yes. William Ellis? Yes. Trevor Sager? Yes. Motion passes. All right. 00:10:47.624 --> 00:10:53.564 - We've had an email from Darla about the acknowledgement of the TIF annual report. We don't actually 00:10:53.564 --> 00:10:59.503 - have to do anything with it. We simply have to acknowledge that we've received it, and then it goes 00:10:59.503 --> 00:11:05.562 - to the council, correct? Correct. Great. Yes, and the minutes should reflect that you acknowledge the 00:11:05.562 --> 00:11:06.334 - report, yes. 00:11:09.410 --> 00:11:18.038 - Do we need a motion to acknowledge the report? It wouldn't hurt just so it's memorialized in the minutes. 00:11:18.038 --> 00:11:26.746 - Gotcha. I'll make a motion to acknowledge that we've received the TIF management plan. Second that motion. 00:11:26.746 --> 00:11:34.479 - And then do I take a roll call vote? Andrew Henry? Yes. Carl Thurman? Yes. William Ellis? Yes. 00:11:34.479 --> 00:11:37.246 - Trevor Sager? Yes. Motion passes. 00:11:41.698 --> 00:11:51.625 - So what exactly does privilege of the floor mean? Just general public comment? Anything that's not listed 00:11:51.625 --> 00:12:01.270 - on the agenda that the public would like to discuss. Gotcha. Any privilege of the floor items from the 00:12:01.270 --> 00:12:09.886 - public? All right. Comments from the commissioners? Anybody online with questions? Amazing. 00:12:11.170 --> 00:12:20.945 - Any reason not to adjourn? Do we need a motion to adjourn or do I just adjourn? I'm adjourning it. Adjourned. 00:12:20.945 --> 00:12:23.166 - 12 minute meeting, guys.