WEBVTT 00:00:00.866 --> 00:00:09.611 - Well, it's the it's the witching hour. So let me call the meeting of the Monroe County Capital Improvement 00:00:09.611 --> 00:00:17.948 - Board of March 25th, 2026 to order. And I'll ask Mr. Paris to take the role. John Weichardt. Present. 00:00:17.948 --> 00:00:26.367 - Doug Bruce. Here. Jim Silverstein. Here. Joyce Pulling. Adam Tease. Here. Galen Cassidy. Here. And Jay 00:00:26.367 --> 00:00:27.838 - Baer is not here. 00:00:29.090 --> 00:00:35.934 - Did we hear Galen? Yes. OK, good. OK, thank you. And if Mr. Baird joins us, once again, he's in that 00:00:35.934 --> 00:00:42.710 - position where because he's missed several meetings in person, he can't participate or vote. But we 00:00:42.710 --> 00:00:49.824 - would certainly welcome his comments at that time during public comment if he would like to share wisdom 00:00:49.824 --> 00:00:53.822 - with us. So approval of consent agenda is item number two. 00:00:54.210 --> 00:01:01.690 - You have received, um, the minutes of the board meeting of February 18th, uh, claims and the financial 00:01:01.690 --> 00:01:09.242 - report. So is there a motion to approve the consent agenda? It's moved. Is there a second? Second. It's 00:01:09.242 --> 00:01:16.649 - been seconded. Are there any questions or discussion about the consent agenda? Right. So maybe we Mr. 00:01:16.649 --> 00:01:23.838 - Whitlap. Would you take the role? Yes. John Weichart. Yes. Doug Bruce. Yes. Gail and Cassidy. Yes. 00:01:24.834 --> 00:01:32.747 - Joyce Pauling? Yes. Jim Silberstein? Yes. Adam Teese? Yes. Thank you. Item number three, Treasurer's 00:01:32.747 --> 00:01:40.581 - Report. Mr. Silberstein, anything? Treasurer's Report is that there's nothing to report. Excellent. 00:01:40.581 --> 00:01:47.710 - President's Report. I want to report that we have had two change orders since we last met. 00:01:48.258 --> 00:01:55.114 - that are under the $25,000 threshold, which I'm allowed to approve. The first one is for $8,644. It's 00:01:55.114 --> 00:02:02.105 - for duct work in the existing building to exhaust the first floor restrooms up through the second floor 00:02:02.105 --> 00:02:09.096 - and the roof. It's a coordination issue that needed to be resolved when the alternate bid for replacing 00:02:09.096 --> 00:02:15.818 - the HVAC units has not yet been taken. We signed off on it. It's possible that when we were able to 00:02:15.818 --> 00:02:17.566 - move into the alternates, 00:02:17.858 --> 00:02:24.021 - and approval of alternates that we would come back and say we didn't need to do this. But that was one 00:02:24.021 --> 00:02:30.244 - that was approved. The second one is for $3,263 for rerouting a private sanitary line from the existing 00:02:30.244 --> 00:02:36.468 - building that was in the way of the foundations for the connector. So those were the two that have been 00:02:36.468 --> 00:02:42.391 - approved since our last meeting. So happy to answer any questions about those that you might have. 00:02:42.391 --> 00:02:47.358 - All right, thank you. If not, we'll move to item number five, construction update. 00:02:47.458 --> 00:02:56.741 - Wettle, Mr. Sherry. Perfect. Thank you, John. Andrew Sherry, project manager with Wettle Brothers. Share 00:02:56.741 --> 00:03:05.759 - my screen. Show some pictures here. Okay. Starting off with safety. So just some high points here. We 00:03:05.759 --> 00:03:14.689 - currently average around 45 employees on site daily, which accounts for around seven to 10 different 00:03:14.689 --> 00:03:15.838 - contractors. 00:03:16.162 --> 00:03:21.596 - This will continue to increase as we progress around the building. We've talked previously that we've 00:03:21.596 --> 00:03:26.924 - had a lot of excavations and underground work that has continued around the building and inside the 00:03:26.924 --> 00:03:32.304 - building that is decreasing now with overhead work increasing. So we've kind of shifted there from a 00:03:32.304 --> 00:03:37.792 - safety standpoint. We have fall protection at all elevated decks with access being installed currently 00:03:37.792 --> 00:03:39.390 - for stairs, temporary stairs. 00:03:39.490 --> 00:03:44.898 - Roof work is underway, which has leading edges and fall protection. If anybody's looked out there and 00:03:44.898 --> 00:03:50.359 - seen the material staged on the roof. And then the different types of lifts along with scaffolding are 00:03:50.359 --> 00:03:55.820 - in use for both interior and exterior work. So we kind of got away from the skid steers and excavators 00:03:55.820 --> 00:04:01.334 - and everything. And now we're at boom lifts and hydro mobiles and different types of working platforms. 00:04:01.334 --> 00:04:05.470 - Here's a note for our safety AI walks. The screenshot on the right hand side, 00:04:05.602 --> 00:04:12.251 - is all of our routes that our team does. This one's from December to today. So we average around four 00:04:12.251 --> 00:04:18.769 - to five walks with our superintendents and our management team that with an AI camera. We go around 00:04:18.769 --> 00:04:25.483 - that is in addition to our onsite safety inspections. It creates it automatically generates additional 00:04:25.483 --> 00:04:26.526 - safety reports. 00:04:26.626 --> 00:04:31.369 - any potential corrections that are needed. And then we track these on Autodesk, which is our project 00:04:31.369 --> 00:04:36.113 - software that is utilized for all of our drawings and everything. So if we have a hazard or anything 00:04:36.113 --> 00:04:40.950 - that's identified, we can assign a contractor, address it, track, document it. So again, it just shows 00:04:40.950 --> 00:04:45.693 - all the walks and at any time in our meetings, our owners meetings and different things, I can click 00:04:45.693 --> 00:04:50.531 - on this and it'll do a virtual walk through the building of the actual conditions. So again, it's just 00:04:50.531 --> 00:04:52.926 - a neat feature that helps us with our, our safety. 00:04:55.330 --> 00:05:00.789 - Um, construction progress update. So our structural steel update, um, structure field detailing continues 00:05:00.789 --> 00:05:06.146 - on the main portion of the expansion. Um, when I say that we have just in the main exhibit hall, 52,000 00:05:06.146 --> 00:05:11.399 - pounds of supplemental steel that goes in the exhibit hall for, uh, partition walls, um, all kinds of 00:05:11.399 --> 00:05:16.653 - different things. Our last sequence, which is sequence seven, this is the back of house area near the 00:05:16.653 --> 00:05:17.374 - loading dock. 00:05:17.762 --> 00:05:23.148 - starts next week. Our crane is planning to mobilize Wednesday, so we'll have a crane back on site down 00:05:23.148 --> 00:05:28.430 - there for a week, week and a half, set all that steel, and that'll be the last crane that we utilize 00:05:28.430 --> 00:05:33.764 - for structural steel. All roof deck has been installed over the main portion of the expansion, again, 00:05:33.764 --> 00:05:39.360 - excluding the back of house area that has not been erected yet. And then our elevated decking is completed 00:05:39.360 --> 00:05:45.374 - on all interior surfaces in the building, the second floor. So we're working towards pouring those elevated decks. 00:05:48.226 --> 00:05:52.846 - All building foundations are completed, including the 12 foot deep foundations on the south portion 00:05:52.846 --> 00:05:57.789 - of the project near the loading dock. The remaining foundations that we have are for the exterior features 00:05:57.789 --> 00:06:02.732 - on the south side of the project. So the screen wall that'll be there along college, the trash enclosures, 00:06:02.732 --> 00:06:07.491 - the ramp into the building, just some minor things there. That's the only excavations we have left for 00:06:07.491 --> 00:06:12.249 - foundations. And then a slab on a grade update. We've had five sequences we've discussed through these 00:06:12.249 --> 00:06:17.054 - updates. Three of those have been poured as of this Monday. We expect that the remainder will be poured 00:06:17.154 --> 00:06:23.647 - and finished in April. So on the right hand side here is a picture looking at the northwest corner of 00:06:23.647 --> 00:06:30.012 - the project, the main entrance with the second floor. That's the patio area. It's hard to see here, 00:06:30.012 --> 00:06:36.441 - but the floor looks really good. Here are some concrete progress photos. Again, kind of hard to see, 00:06:36.441 --> 00:06:41.470 - but in the top pictures, this is the north side of the building looking north. 00:06:41.762 --> 00:06:46.480 - The bottom right is the exterior foundations on the south side of the project. Again, these are the 00:06:46.480 --> 00:06:51.198 - 12 foot foundation walls. And then on the left hand side was all the rebar form work and everything 00:06:51.198 --> 00:06:53.982 - that was placed prior to the pour that we did this Monday. 00:06:56.578 --> 00:07:01.255 - Our building envelope here is a picture at the Southeast side of the project. The masonry wall, the 00:07:01.255 --> 00:07:06.025 - brick wall is a complete. So we will frame off the top of this. And then on March 31st, they're going 00:07:06.025 --> 00:07:10.748 - to come out and start scanning for our metal panels for us to install. So we'll have around an eight 00:07:10.748 --> 00:07:15.565 - week turnaround on that, but we'll see sheathing and framing go up, start to enclose the building. And 00:07:15.565 --> 00:07:20.242 - then our metal panels start showing up in a couple of months. Column wraps have been framed and are 00:07:20.242 --> 00:07:24.030 - currently having brick installed on the interior side. Roof work is in progress. 00:07:24.738 --> 00:07:29.592 - Go back here. Roof work is in progress. The main portion of the east low roof is going to be completed 00:07:29.592 --> 00:07:34.492 - today. They will progress to the north side. They're going to finish the low roof and then they'll jump 00:07:34.492 --> 00:07:39.440 - up to the high roof here in a week or two. Uh, and our curtain wall systems start installation in April. 00:07:39.440 --> 00:07:44.247 - So our material is procured. It's on hand. I'm actually trying to hold them off from bringing it here 00:07:44.247 --> 00:07:49.053 - to be closer to our installed date around April 6th. Um, but they're, they're chomping at the bit and 00:07:49.053 --> 00:07:52.446 - we'll be able to start taking shape in all of our curtain wall systems. 00:07:54.946 --> 00:08:00.438 - Interior progress on the right hand side here. You'll see the brick. This was a yesterday photo. This 00:08:00.438 --> 00:08:05.931 - is probably two or three feet high at this point today. I'd say they're eight to 10 feet high. Um, so 00:08:05.931 --> 00:08:11.423 - our column wraps are progressing towards the roof. Um, interior walls are underway. That includes our 00:08:11.423 --> 00:08:16.808 - metal studs and our masonry walls. Our in-wall rough ends have started with electrical and plumbing 00:08:16.808 --> 00:08:22.462 - and our door frames continue with our wall progression. So we're starting to build the building out. Um, 00:08:23.522 --> 00:08:29.655 - Interior works are interior framing continues mechanical plumbing and electrical will continue for upcoming 00:08:29.655 --> 00:08:35.505 - activities. Our fireproofing on the structural steel is going to start next week. The remainder of the 00:08:35.505 --> 00:08:41.468 - slab on grade is to be poured, which means that our underground will be completed, including the kitchen 00:08:41.468 --> 00:08:47.147 - area, which is pretty extensive. And then preparing to pour elevated decks at the second floor late 00:08:47.147 --> 00:08:48.510 - April is the timeframe. 00:08:51.106 --> 00:08:56.707 - Exterior work as far as upcoming activities, our exterior foundations near the loading dock will be 00:08:56.707 --> 00:09:02.644 - completed. Our column wraps and exterior framing and our masonry work will be completed or well underway. 00:09:02.644 --> 00:09:08.300 - Curtain wall systems to start our roof work over the entirety of the building. And then our exterior 00:09:08.300 --> 00:09:14.125 - canopy will start seeing take shape. They actually started framing on this this morning. So we'll start 00:09:14.125 --> 00:09:19.166 - to see that overhang around the building. And that's the construction update that I have. 00:09:20.770 --> 00:09:29.150 - Thank you, Andrew. Any questions for Mr. Sherry? Thank you. Item number six, working group updates. 00:09:29.150 --> 00:09:37.530 - Let's begin with wayfinding. Sarah Hempstead from Schmidt. Everybody, Sarah Hempstead from Schmidt. 00:09:37.530 --> 00:09:42.558 - I've got a very short report for you today. Our signage and 00:09:42.786 --> 00:09:48.884 - wayfinding package goes before zoning tomorrow night. So if you have nothing else to do tomorrow night, 00:09:48.884 --> 00:09:54.982 - you want to join me in the zoning hearing. We are requesting eight different variances for our exterior 00:09:54.982 --> 00:10:00.963 - signage. Just like the building, the zoning code cannot be written around a convention center. And so 00:10:00.963 --> 00:10:07.003 - things like the height of the sign as well as their locations will all go up for zoning appeals. We've 00:10:07.003 --> 00:10:10.814 - had a great working relationship with Citi. We've talked to them 00:10:11.010 --> 00:10:18.195 - talk to them through this process and will be heard tomorrow night. Our detailed signage review then 00:10:18.195 --> 00:10:25.522 - with the committee happens April the 20th. And so we'll be going through each and every signage detail 00:10:25.522 --> 00:10:32.635 - at that time, including the final material selection pending our approval tomorrow night. We should 00:10:32.635 --> 00:10:39.678 - be ready to put everything out in the street by the end of April, beginning of May. OK, thank you. 00:10:39.810 --> 00:10:47.931 - Next item under working group updates, furniture, fixtures, and equipment. JS Held. Good afternoon. 00:10:47.931 --> 00:10:56.134 - Mary Kropinski with JS Held. As you may recall, back in January, we hired Reload Strategies, the CIB 00:10:56.134 --> 00:11:04.499 - hired Reload Strategies, to work through phase one of the furniture, fixtures, and equipment packages. 00:11:04.499 --> 00:11:09.534 - The purpose of this was to identify budget and scope of work. 00:11:09.602 --> 00:11:17.137 - does not include AV and IT. So I just want to be clear about that. We'll come back another day on those 00:11:17.137 --> 00:11:24.673 - items. But today we have Julie Hutchison and Melissa St. John from Reload Strategies who's been working 00:11:24.673 --> 00:11:31.991 - through the process to note that Schmidt's been involved as well as deeply Talisha and her team. But 00:11:31.991 --> 00:11:39.454 - at this point, I'll hand it over to Julie to give a presentation on what they've come up with to date. 00:11:39.522 --> 00:11:48.680 - and we will be back at the end of this to ask for a recommendation for moving forward. Hi, I'm Julie 00:11:48.680 --> 00:11:57.928 - Hutchison with Relocation Strategies. Is your microphone on, Julie? Yeah, I think it is. We just need 00:11:57.928 --> 00:12:00.830 - slides. Do you have any slides? 00:13:00.130 --> 00:13:29.630 - There we go. OK, so the first slide is phase one, which is a furniture fixtures and equipment budget process. 00:13:29.890 --> 00:13:37.129 - where we started with the programming and coming up with the different categories. We met with Talisha 00:13:37.129 --> 00:13:44.368 - and her team to discuss all those categories. Then we did a room by room list with commercial industry 00:13:44.368 --> 00:13:51.396 - standards in preliminary quantities. We did budget quoting and got used some cooperative pricing to 00:13:51.396 --> 00:13:58.846 - come up with our budgetary pricing. Then we did some cross checking pricing from different manufacturers. 00:13:59.330 --> 00:14:07.820 - And finally, we came up with the consolidated all the data into the FFNE budget spreadsheet to get ready 00:14:07.820 --> 00:14:15.986 - for the procurement and planning for process in the phases for plan two. The next slide, we have the 00:14:15.986 --> 00:14:24.314 - FFNE budget summary. So we took a three page spreadsheet. We consolidated it to this one form for you. 00:14:24.314 --> 00:14:29.246 - Just wanted to show you that we have outlined our hard costs 00:14:29.346 --> 00:14:38.568 - We've put in an allowance in for shipping handling and install. We've also added a 5% contingency to 00:14:38.568 --> 00:14:47.972 - that. And we have our fees added in. We are still under the $3 million budget at 2.954. The next slide 00:14:47.972 --> 00:14:57.377 - is the procurement methodology. So we know that we will have some direct purchasing for any items that 00:14:57.377 --> 00:14:59.294 - are 25,000 and less. 00:14:59.522 --> 00:15:10.226 - We will obtain three quotes for any items 25,000 to 150,000, and we will put out to bid and give a summary 00:15:10.226 --> 00:15:20.631 - of bids and awards awarded for the vendors of any of the items that are 150,000 and over, and then also 00:15:20.631 --> 00:15:28.734 - for do an RFP for install services. Phase two will be then confirming quantities 00:15:28.930 --> 00:15:35.883 - and getting into the specifications with Talisha and her group so we can send those out for apples to 00:15:35.883 --> 00:15:42.701 - apples quotes and bids. We will manage the bid process for all items. We will work with Schmidt and 00:15:42.701 --> 00:15:49.654 - all the other groups to select finishes and fabrics for all the items. We will do punch and close out 00:15:49.654 --> 00:15:56.471 - materials and help with the delivery install and keeping track of all the lead times for all of the 00:15:56.471 --> 00:15:57.630 - furniture items. 00:15:59.138 --> 00:16:06.247 - And the last slide is just a timeline kind of showing the process. We started in April. We'll try to 00:16:06.247 --> 00:16:13.356 - get the bids and we're going to get the bids and RFPs out and get those quotes, compare them all the 00:16:13.356 --> 00:16:19.902 - way through to punch and project close out January, February. So be along the whole process. 00:16:25.090 --> 00:16:32.877 - Thank you, Julie. At this point, we'd like to know if there's any questions that you might have of Reload 00:16:32.877 --> 00:16:40.443 - Strategies in the process. I also wanted to note that the CIB FF&E committee has been involved in this 00:16:40.443 --> 00:16:47.569 - process. That includes Jim Silverstone, Joyce Poling, John Weickart, Talisha, as well as Schmidt 00:16:47.569 --> 00:16:50.654 - representatives, Liam Kiesling and Sarah. 00:16:58.594 --> 00:17:07.677 - So do you have a recommendation as to what you want us to do at this point today? Yes, we absolutely 00:17:07.677 --> 00:17:17.210 - do. At this point in time, we would like to make a recommendation through phase one and the dollar amount 00:17:17.210 --> 00:17:25.214 - that has been presented here today with that budget not exceeding three million dollars. 00:17:25.570 --> 00:17:33.633 - We would also like to ask within that approval to move forward into phase two, to move into the actual 00:17:33.633 --> 00:17:41.461 - procurement and purchase delivery and installment processes. We will come back and ask for a second 00:17:41.461 --> 00:17:49.367 - approval for contract agreement for that work. But right now we're asking for approval of phase one, 00:17:49.367 --> 00:17:53.438 - what's been done to date and moving into phase two. 00:17:54.338 --> 00:18:01.960 - Okay, so do we have a motion to approve the phase one scope and budget and the phase two agreement? 00:18:01.960 --> 00:18:09.658 - Okay, so it's been moved. Is there a second? Second. So we have a motion. Is there any discussion or 00:18:09.658 --> 00:18:17.509 - are there any questions for Mary or for the committee? Seeing and hearing none. So Mr. Wilmich, if you 00:18:17.509 --> 00:18:23.454 - would take the role. John Weickart. Yes. Doug Bruce. Yes. Galen Cassidy. Yes. 00:18:24.642 --> 00:18:33.387 - Yes. Jim Silverstein. Yes. Adam Tease. Yes. Thank you. And now you have a second recommendation. Yes, 00:18:33.387 --> 00:18:42.304 - we have a second recommendation to approve contract with Reload Strategies for that Phase 2 work. Their 00:18:42.304 --> 00:18:50.963 - Phase 1 fee, which has already been completed, was $48,600. To complete Phase 2, we would be looking 00:18:50.963 --> 00:18:53.278 - at an additional $195,383. 00:18:53.442 --> 00:19:01.988 - for a total commitment of $243,983. This will take us from this point forward all the way to close out 00:19:01.988 --> 00:19:10.700 - of the project. Okay, so is there a motion to approve the contract? So moved. Second. So it's been moved 00:19:10.700 --> 00:19:20.158 - and seconded. Are there any questions about the contract? Any discussion? Mr. Wentlatch, would you take the role? 00:19:20.322 --> 00:19:28.398 - John Weickart? Yes. Doug Bruce? Yes. Galen Cassidy? Yes. Joyce Pulling? Yes. Jim Silverstein? Yes. 00:19:28.398 --> 00:19:36.882 - Adam Tease? Yes. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for the presentation. Next item, Working Group Update, 00:19:36.882 --> 00:19:45.040 - the art installation. Beat Advisory Galen, do you have an update for us, please? I do. Can you hear 00:19:45.040 --> 00:19:46.590 - me all right? Yes. 00:19:48.162 --> 00:19:54.773 - All right, so yeah, so far we've concluded artist visits with three of the five finalists taking place, 00:19:54.773 --> 00:20:01.384 - and that should be all for now, as we're just over two weeks away from the final proposals due on April 00:20:01.384 --> 00:20:07.740 - 10th. After proposals are received, we'll meet simultaneously with the finalist for them to present 00:20:07.740 --> 00:20:14.097 - their proposals to us with the recommendation committee, and then we'll also start another round of 00:20:14.097 --> 00:20:16.894 - public feedback at that time on April 20th. 00:20:17.570 --> 00:20:24.346 - Then we hope to have the recommendation committee presenting a final recommendation to the CIB at the 00:20:24.346 --> 00:20:30.990 - May 20th meeting. Thank you. Any questions for Galen about the work of the arts installation group, 00:20:30.990 --> 00:20:37.766 - Mr. Tease? I just want everyone on the board of managers here to know how hard Galen has worked to do 00:20:37.766 --> 00:20:44.476 - this. A lot of this has fallen right on his shoulders. He does not get paid a dime and he is doing a 00:20:44.476 --> 00:20:46.270 - tremendous amount of work. 00:20:46.370 --> 00:20:54.680 - to push this forward. Yes, thank you. Thank you. And I certainly agree. And Galen, if I understand correctly, 00:20:54.680 --> 00:21:02.689 - is it a pizza conference today? That's right. It turns out there's a conference for pretty much anything, 00:21:02.689 --> 00:21:10.924 - which is why a conference center is so important. And where did one have to go to attend a pizza conference? 00:21:10.924 --> 00:21:15.230 - I'm in Vegas. And at the same time, there's a spray foam 00:21:15.362 --> 00:21:22.237 - convention going on too. So anything can be a convention. Well thank you for your report and to echo 00:21:22.237 --> 00:21:29.043 - Mr. Tease's comment I want to thank Galen for all of his efforts and for all of his hard work. He's 00:21:29.043 --> 00:21:35.986 - taken over a major coordination role especially of these visits. We had three visits artists from Los 00:21:35.986 --> 00:21:43.132 - Angeles, from New York, from London. So three of the five and they were here for various various periods 00:21:43.132 --> 00:21:44.766 - of time. I also want to 00:21:44.866 --> 00:21:51.649 - recognize and express appreciation to Mike and Rachel McAfee, Jim and Beth Silberstein, Jane Coopersmith, 00:21:51.649 --> 00:21:58.303 - the B group who met with them while they were here, Talisha, obviously. Linda and I had the opportunity 00:21:58.303 --> 00:22:04.702 - to take one of the artists to dinner. So I want to thank everybody who stepped up and helped Galen, 00:22:04.702 --> 00:22:05.470 - but Galen's 00:22:05.730 --> 00:22:12.709 - been very much in charge of all of this coordination. And it's been much appreciated. He thought when 00:22:12.709 --> 00:22:19.550 - he went on the board, he might be able to get out from under this. And that was not to be the case. 00:22:19.550 --> 00:22:26.460 - So thank you again, Galen. Next item on the agenda, old business. Let me simply report out that I've 00:22:26.460 --> 00:22:33.918 - been advised of dates for the various governmental units to act on our request for them to identify parcels. 00:22:34.050 --> 00:22:41.103 - of land that they might be willing to donate to us for our project. And so what I've been advised is 00:22:41.103 --> 00:22:48.156 - that the city process, the Redevelopment Commission will meet on Monday, April 6th to determine what 00:22:48.156 --> 00:22:55.419 - actions they want to take. The Board of Public Works then will meet the following day on Tuesday, April 00:22:55.419 --> 00:22:58.142 - 7th on what actions they want to take. 00:22:58.306 --> 00:23:05.378 - The city parcels, some are owned by the Redevelopment Commission, some are owned by the Board of Public 00:23:05.378 --> 00:23:12.178 - Works. So that's why there are two meetings. The county commissioners are tentatively set to act on 00:23:12.178 --> 00:23:18.978 - Tuesday, April 2nd on our request and the county council on, I'm sorry, that's Thursday, April 2nd. 00:23:18.978 --> 00:23:24.894 - The county council will meet on, tentatively scheduled to meet on Tuesday, April 14th. 00:23:25.058 --> 00:23:32.016 - the county council meets on the second and fourth Thursdays. So that's why there's a delay between the 00:23:32.016 --> 00:23:38.974 - commissioners meeting and the county council meeting. So by April 14th, we should have the information 00:23:38.974 --> 00:23:45.797 - from the city and the county about what parcels they intend to donate for use in the project. And so 00:23:45.797 --> 00:23:52.688 - I would ask that you put a hold, if you will, on your calendars for an executive session of our board 00:23:52.688 --> 00:23:53.566 - at 1.30 p.m. 00:23:54.050 --> 00:24:01.428 - on Wednesday, April 15th. So just prior to our scheduled April meeting so that we can meet an executive 00:24:01.428 --> 00:24:08.664 - session for the purpose of discussing real estate. So we'll be able then to have the information from 00:24:08.664 --> 00:24:15.759 - the city and the county and to meet an executive session to discuss that. So that's my old business 00:24:15.759 --> 00:24:22.782 - update. Any other old business from any other members? New business for many members? Seeing none. 00:24:22.978 --> 00:24:29.985 - comments from board members and I want to allow Mr. Teese to go first with comments. Thanks, John. Today 00:24:29.985 --> 00:24:37.059 - will be my last meeting with the CIB. I've resigned my position to the mayor of Bloomington who appointed 00:24:37.059 --> 00:24:43.198 - me to this position. It's been a real honor and pleasure to work in the context of the CIB. 00:24:43.330 --> 00:24:49.660 - Many of you know that in February, I left a position at Indiana University where I had been the associate 00:24:49.660 --> 00:24:56.050 - vice president for capital planning and projects. I did that job for 10 and a half years and have recently 00:24:56.050 --> 00:24:58.558 - moved on to a position with ratio design. 00:24:58.658 --> 00:25:04.632 - That position operates in the private sector. And in the private sector, there are conflicts of interest 00:25:04.632 --> 00:25:10.435 - when you deal with public boards. And I'm not a fan of public conflicts of interest. So stepping down 00:25:10.435 --> 00:25:16.182 - takes me away from any kind of potential conflicts of interest. And that's the kind of guy I am. And 00:25:16.182 --> 00:25:22.156 - I am really proud of the effort that has gone into this. Every single one of you have played a big role. 00:25:22.156 --> 00:25:25.854 - All the consultants have been very, very impressed. Contractors, 00:25:25.986 --> 00:25:31.910 - architects, you should all be very, very proud. My family lives here in Bloomington. We drive by the 00:25:31.910 --> 00:25:37.952 - center almost every single day. We plan to live here for the rest of our lives. So I don't plan to not 00:25:37.952 --> 00:25:43.876 - look at it in the future. And at the end of the day, very proud of all the work that all of you have 00:25:43.876 --> 00:25:50.270 - done and look forward to seeing it come out of the ground. Thank you, Adam. And I want to mention this isn't 00:25:50.402 --> 00:25:58.641 - Adam's first rodeo. He and I were on this board or an iteration of this board in 2017, 2018. That work 00:25:58.641 --> 00:26:06.719 - was suspended for a couple of reasons over that period of time. One of the good things that came out 00:26:06.719 --> 00:26:15.678 - of it was Schmidt Associates was selected to be the architect for our project. But I want to thank Adam for his 00:26:15.810 --> 00:26:24.457 - insight for his advice for his expertise and for his friendship. It's been a pleasure to have you on 00:26:24.457 --> 00:26:33.105 - the board and I thank you for your service. Well let's give him a round of applause. I will say that 00:26:33.105 --> 00:26:41.666 - I'm going to miss having a name card that has my name spelled right but on the other side it has it 00:26:41.666 --> 00:26:43.550 - spelled wrong so it's 00:26:43.650 --> 00:26:50.881 - It's quite fascinating to have your own name card with your name spelled right and wrong on the same 00:26:50.881 --> 00:26:58.256 - card. And you know, I don't and I don't think it would be a financial problem for me to award you that 00:26:58.256 --> 00:27:05.487 - so you can take that home with you. Very good, very good. And then you can pick whatever you want to 00:27:05.487 --> 00:27:12.862 - be at any point in time. Yes, yes. So any other comments from board members? Comments from the public? 00:27:12.994 --> 00:27:18.602 - and we have a 10 minute period of a lot of time with speakers a lot of two minutes within that period. 00:27:18.602 --> 00:27:24.155 - So do we have any members of the public who would like to say anything? I know Mr. Baer has joined us 00:27:24.155 --> 00:27:29.654 - and this is your opportunity if you'd like, Mr. Baer, if you'd like to share any wisdom with us, but 00:27:29.654 --> 00:27:35.098 - you got to hold it to two minutes of wisdom. No wisdom today other than I will miss sitting next to 00:27:35.098 --> 00:27:39.998 - Adam when I'm there in person. Thanks for your hard work. Thanks for giving us hard work. 00:27:40.354 --> 00:27:48.082 - Uh, love the progress that we're seeing. Uh, and indeed there is a conference for everything currently 00:27:48.082 --> 00:27:55.660 - dialing in from Kansas city on the conference of 2000 independent grocery store owners. So you never 00:27:55.660 --> 00:28:03.238 - know. Okay. Thank you. And, uh, we have Audrey, uh, who is, uh, uh, joining us remotely who has, uh, 00:28:03.238 --> 00:28:06.014 - wants to make some comments. Audrey. 00:28:13.890 --> 00:28:34.513 - Apparently your microphone is muted, Audrey, if you could unmute. She is still muted. Audrey, it appears 00:28:34.513 --> 00:28:40.798 - you're still muted on your end. 00:28:47.106 --> 00:29:01.917 - Well, I'm sorry for the technical difficulties. Anyone else who would like to make comment? Let me come 00:29:01.917 --> 00:29:16.158 - back to Audrey to see if we've been able to reach her. Apparently not. Again, my apologies, Audrey. 00:29:17.410 --> 00:29:23.331 - Next board meeting is scheduled for April 15th, 2026 at 3pm here in the Convention Center. 00:29:23.331 --> 00:29:30.034 - And as I said, perhaps we'll meet in executive session at 1.30 that day and we'll get notice out prior 00:29:30.034 --> 00:29:36.801 - to that to firm that up. So the last item is adjournment. You don't have to go home, but you can't stay 00:29:36.801 --> 00:29:38.558 - here and we are adjourned.