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All right, everybody. Good afternoon.
Welcome. What it's 12:00, so we will go

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ahead and call to order
the August 4th meeting of the Auburn

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Redevelopment Commission.
Uh we'll start with a roll call.

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» Eddie Gadsden will be absent.
Shelly Smalls

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» Here.
>> Here.

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» Ann Brown
>> Here.

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» Valerie Arrington
>> Here.

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» Eric Capps
>> Here.

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» Uh recognition of visitors. We do have,
as usual, the mayor, Dave Clark, uh

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clerk-treasurer, Lori Pannell.
Uh mayor's chief of staff, Brandy

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Coburn, uh business development, Andy
Beran.

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Uh attorney, Zach Lightner, Daryl
McConnell.

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Uh and police fire chiefs, in addition
to Ann Fitcham, Nick Cappas, and Ryan

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Shambaugh. Did I see Ryan left already?
>> [laughter]

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» Anyway, welcome all. Um
glad to have you here have you here.

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Uh for the commission, you should have
received, um

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the minutes from last month's meeting.
Any questions or concerns?

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» Move to approve the July 7th, 2026
regular meeting minutes.

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» Second.
>> Okay, a motion and a second. Any other

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questions, concerns, or comments?
Seeing none, all in favor signify by

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saying I.
>> I.

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» Opposed?
Motion carries.

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Uh examination of claims. We have a uh
claim from Lightner Law Firm to review

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the request from the Auburn Development
Group, invoice number 2116 for $175.

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» Move to approve invoice 2116 to Lightner
Law Firm for $175.

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» Second.
>> Uh motion and a second. Any other

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questions, concerns, comments?
Seeing none, all in favor signify by

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saying I.
>> I.

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» Opposed?
Motion carries.

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Uh Uh
next up we have the Auburn development

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group. Um they are back
from last month with a claim for

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$65,606.93.

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Uh which $65,606.93.

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» I'll second.
>> Okay, here's a motion and a second.

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Any further discussion,
comments, or concerns?

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I don't want to rush anybody. Like I
said, I know I know we just got this

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in the last day or so, but I if nobody
has anything,

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I will go ahead and call for the vote.
Uh all in favor signify by saying I.

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» I.
>> Opposed?

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Motion carries.
Um moving on to unfinished

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[clears throat] business. I don't don't
necessarily have anything. I don't know

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Daryl if you have anything you want to
update us on or

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Okay.
Move on to new business then.

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Uh we do have the annual dues dues
renewal for the Redevelopment

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Association of Indiana. It's $125.
Um not sure how many of you have been

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able to take advantage of that in the
past year. I know I've attended a few

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meetings. Danny has attended a meeting
or two. Um I am currently registered for

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the
uh site tour in Fort Wayne end of next

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week.
Um so I

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my opinion it has been a useful tool for
us if we want to

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continue to renew that membership.
And just for for the record that one

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membership is that covers anyone in the
city. So anybody has access to that.

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Anybody on the commission as well as
city employees.

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City government has access to that
information, those tools.

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» Need to approve the $125.
>> Yeah. Yeah, we'll need a motion and a

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second to approve that.
>> I'll move to approve the annual dues for

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the AIA for $125.
>> Second.

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» Motion and a second. Any other
questions?

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All in favor signify by saying I.
>> I.

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» I.
>> Opposed?

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Motion carries.
And then we do have a request for a

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facade grant extension from the Auburn
Street Department. And do you have

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anything you want to add to that?
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Has everybody had a chance to review
that request?

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Are there any questions that you would
have for Anne for that?

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» I'll move to approve the extension.
[music]

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» I'll second.
>> So we have a motion and a second to

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to approve the extension for the Street
Department facade grant.

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Any other questions, concerns, or
comments?

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Um

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» I believe this will have to fall into
the same one the last one we did.

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So we'll have to have basically have to
have their application

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or their
request for payment by

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like November 24th in order to be
forwarded because it was a 2020

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2025 PO as well. So

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» If there's nothing else, all those in
favor of granting the facade grant

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signify by saying I.
>> I.

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» I.
>> I.

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» Opposed?
Motion carries.

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Uh couple of announcements.
Um

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you will likely see in the paper that
tonight uh city council is going to be

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asked to pass an additional
appropriation ordinance for our budget.

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A little backstory of what happened
there when the fire department came to

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request the additional funding be used
for additional projects. Um this was a

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2025 budgeted item.
So, when 2025 ended, that budget went

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away.
Uh so, when we

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approved that request, um
it had to come out of our 2026 budget,

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which we budgeted very tightly as far as
capital expenditures. Um there was a

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potential. We do know that we have the
uh the Sealine project may be under

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budget, and we would have been okay, but
we won't know that till later in the

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year. So, essentially, what
has to happen is because we are going to

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go over our budget, city council has to
approve the additional appropriation.

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They have to approve that change to our
budget.

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Um
it's just an error on on our end. We

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didn't
consider that take that in consideration

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when it when it happened. Um it's kind
of why

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I think Lori's been more
clear on on some of these extensions

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that's got to happen this year. Um and
and we've had we've had some

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conversations, and I've promised her
that I'll try to pay more attention and

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and not let us do that again. So, um but
that's all it really is. It's just a uh

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it's it's a technical thing that we have
to do um to make sure that we're

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appropriated our budget. We have the
money. Um it's that's that's not a

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problem. We just didn't plan to spend
it.

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Um now, the next step to that, we do
have, of course, the capital improvement

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plan, or not
What is the

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the other budget thing we have to do,
the

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the spending plan. Yeah.
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we do have room in the spending plan, so
that's that's why it wasn't an issue. We

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put We put a little extra in the capital
improvement budget in the spending plan.

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Um, so that's not going to be an issue
for us. We don't have to adjust that.

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» We just since you brought that up, we
wanted to make sure you

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have the budget plan

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» And we will. So, yeah, and I've had some
conversations with the mayor. We are

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putting together a budget. I will get
that sent out to you ASAP. Um, if that

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way if we've got anything you want to
comment or concerned about, we need to

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adjust that, cuz we will have to get
that passed too.

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So, any questions about that additional
appropriation?

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Like I said, there's nothing we have to
do. Um, we just It's all It all falls on

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city council. We just want to make sure
that you all understood

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um, what that's all about, so.
Um, and then our next meeting is Was

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that September 1st?
At noon here.

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If nobody has anything else,
I would entertain a motion to adjourn.

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Move to adjourn.
>> Second.

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» Motion to second to adjourn. All in
favor?

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» I.
>> I. Opposed?

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We adjourn. Thank you all.

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» I'm sorry.