- Recording in progress. I pray. Heavenly Father, thank you for this day. I pray you bless the work of
- our committee, that we would be wise and diligent in doing our work for the good of this town. In Christ's
- name we pray, amen. Amen. Our father, religious 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.
- I always pray with my kids at bedtime. We have to pray. We say the Lord's Prayer. So I'm getting my
- memorized stuff out of order. All right. Election of officers. So you explained just before we started,
- Darla, that the vice president and vice roll call. Roll call. Andrew Henry. Present. William Ellis.
- Here. Carl Thurmond.
- Here. Trevor Sager? Here. Larry DeMoss? Here. And for the record, the current position of president
- is vacant. So the Indiana Code states that five members are to be appointed and each person serves a
- year unless they're filling out someone's term. So when you started the Redevelopment Commission and
- you were new, the statute said that you finished out your calendar year
- plus one year, which you've all done. So the voting members now, their terms are all up. And so what
- we need to know is, you know, if you're willing to serve, then you can be reappointed by the town council
- this evening. For now, if you want to go ahead and elect your officers, that's fine, because the statute
- always says, also says you serve until your replacements are named. So technically, you're still good.
- but the town council will be addressing it this evening. So you need a president, a vice president,
- and a secretary by statute, Noel's the treasurer, and the president and the vice president have to be
- from different appointing bodies. So the president of the town council appointed the citizen members,
- and the council appointed the two town council members, so.
- different president, so was that incorrect last time, should we have? Because if, okay. I mean, it's
- nothing major, I'm just, so Trevor, I have to be one of them. Right, correct. Not it. You want it?
- I mean, I don't mind staying on for secretary, if you want to do. That's right, secretary. Yeah, do
- you want me secretary? Because I'd love for you to do minutes. No. You wouldn't like the way I do minutes.
- We met, talked, and that would be about it. All right. Unless Andrew wanted to do president and he could
- do vice president. Sure, yes. He could do that if he wanted to. I would prefer to stay where I am. OK.
- Well, if anybody wants to entertain a motion, I'm not going to nominate myself. So I move that we nominate
- William to serve as president. Second.
- Andrew Henry? Yes. William Ellis? Yes. Carl Thurman? Yes. Trevor Sager? Yes. Motion passes. Thank you,
- William. You're welcome. All right. And I will nominate Andrew Henry as Vice President, because we need
- to make that official, right? Yes, please. Do I have a second?
- Andrew Henry? Yes. William Ellis? Yes. Carl Thurman? Yes. Trevor Sager? Yes. Motion passes. And are
- all of you still willing to serve if the council's? Yes. Thank you. Yes. Yep. So I guess we also need
- to appoint a secretary. And you're taking that? I'll take it. All right, I nominate Trevor for secretary. I second.
- Senator Henry? Yes. William Ellis? Yes. Carl Thurmond? Yes. Trevor Sager? Yes. Motion passes.
- Thank you. All right. Have we had any interest for the final vacancy? For the vacancy here? I've been
- talking to one person. He's right now running for town council.
- He just does not have the bandwidth to add anything on, but he's looking to. So I have had no luck.
- Anything from you, Mike? Well, no. I think I've been so busy I haven't given a real good thought, but
- I'll throw some names at you in the next couple weeks.
- We can post on Facebook for interested parties. If you're a town resident, why can't we generate some
- interest via Facebook? If you put qualifications or things, if Darla could create something, that could
- be one way to narrow down the field of people. I mean, just to get this thing filled. Right. Actually,
- I have someone in mind just thought about it.
- I believe this person's on the finance committee and shares the middle hyphenated name with my last
- name. Yeah. See, you really threw everybody for loop there, didn't I? Former BEDC background. Should
- we proceed to the minutes? Okay.
- approval minutes from December 8th. Is that what's in here? We all have to just pass this around and
- sign it or decide afterwards. Just don't leave without signing them. That's all I ask. So I'll make
- a motion to approve minutes for December 8th. I second the motion. Andrew Henry? Yes. Carl Thurman?
- Yes. William Ellis? Yes. Trevor Sager? Yes. Motion passes.
- approval of the year to date redevelopment commission financial report. So every time you guys meet,
- 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
- where it just shows the beginning balance and then the end balance. This was just a breakdown of what
- actual services were paid out. So you could see at the top that $1,050 was for
- the Redevelopment Commission annual salary, Social Security unemployment tax, and then the miscellaneous
- professional expenses that came out of there. The initial budget that the town council had approved
- for the start of 2025 due to additional appropriation was $50,000. We expended $43,405.73. Most of that
- was, if you will look,
- in there for the redevelopment commission, the legal services setting up through Baker-Tilley. So for
- the 2026 budget, the amended budget is $27,496. That's taking into account increasing the board commission
- for $100 per meeting and the ancillary social security and unemployment taxes that go along with that.
- The expectation is that because we're not setting up the TIF districts from scratch, that Baker-Tilley
- services won't be expensed as much, but if we need to adjust the budget next year, we certainly can.
- So if there's any questions, I can answer those. And we discussed as a commission also in the council
- when we did this that once this starts generating revenue, we'll put this back into the
- Correct, so that's why you'll notice at the top, it specifically says expenditure department is 005,
- redevelopment, and that's so that I can track it separately in the general fund. And what's not spent
- reverted back to the general fund, correct? Correct, so that's 6,594.27 went back into the general fund, correct?
- And will that annual TIF financing report be a recurring item basically every September? Sorry. Say
- that one more time. There's a line item that says annual TIF financing report. Correct. That will be
- every September? Yes. So this, the next item that you guys see will be the acknowledgement of the TIF
- management plan and that will be under that.
- There's a lot of reporting on the gateway that goes along with the TIF and since this is new for the
- town and for me as a clerk treasurer, not missing reporting deadlines is very important. So Baker-Tilley
- has, their expertise comes in very good. So you need a motion for that then?
- Yes, please. Okay. Are there any other questions before we move to a motion? In public comment. Oh,
- sorry. Any public comment? At this time? Anybody online? Or is this? No, no one is online. Okay.
- All right. I make a motion to approve the year to date redevelopment commission financial report. I'll second.
- Andrew Henry? Yes. Carl Thurman? Yes. William Ellis? Yes. Trevor Sager? Yes. Motion passes. All right.
- We've had an email from Darla about the acknowledgement of the TIF annual report. We don't actually
- have to do anything with it. We simply have to acknowledge that we've received it, and then it goes
- to the council, correct? Correct. Great. Yes, and the minutes should reflect that you acknowledge the
- report, yes.
- Do we need a motion to acknowledge the report? It wouldn't hurt just so it's memorialized in the minutes.
- Gotcha. I'll make a motion to acknowledge that we've received the TIF management plan. Second that motion.
- And then do I take a roll call vote? Andrew Henry? Yes. Carl Thurman? Yes. William Ellis? Yes.
- Trevor Sager? Yes. Motion passes.
- So what exactly does privilege of the floor mean? Just general public comment? Anything that's not listed
- on the agenda that the public would like to discuss. Gotcha. Any privilege of the floor items from the
- public? All right. Comments from the commissioners? Anybody online with questions? Amazing.
- Any reason not to adjourn? Do we need a motion to adjourn or do I just adjourn? I'm adjourning it. Adjourned.
- 12 minute meeting, guys.