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.