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you're ready
good evening everyone welcome to eustis
city hall this is a community
redevelopment agency meeting it is 5 15
thursday september the 8th
2022.
christine sarah porn proper notice been
given yes thank you so much uh before us
we have the approval of minutes from our
july 21st
2022 community redevelopment agency
meeting what's the will of our meeting
our agency
thank you a second thank you any
discussion
not hearing any roll call please vice
mayor lee aye commissioner hoop smith
aye commissioner cobb aye commissioner
hawkins mayor holland all right all
right and then we've got cra items with
board discussion tom is that you or yes
all right well thank you um
this need this evening we have for you
kind of the next step in the former
waterman site rfq process
so a little bit about where we are
we did issue a request for
qualifications
as you know
the city or the cra purchased this
property in september of 2020. we
initially did an rfp process and opted
not to move forward with that process
and then issued the request for
qualifications
this through this process interested
parties were asked to submit
information on their experience past
projects and their general
qualifications
um
the the difference between the rfp and
rfq process is rfq really is about
qualifications and selecting the best
team it is not about site specific
information
and so
we did not ask for site specific
information and the solely uh the
selection uh is solely based on the team
and their qualifications and then the
goal is um the next step is to turn the
best team loose on the design
uh and the engagement and so
we asked as part of the rfq we asked for
a detailed description of the responding
development team's qualifications and
experience
a description of at least three
representative projects
that the development team has worked on
a demonstration of the responding team's
ability to secure financing and a
description of the proposed process
where the team will develop the concept
so we did form an evaluation committee
that consisted of myself
the economic development director
development services director public
works director finance director and it
was facilitated by the purchasing
manager
the evaluation committee met in a public
meeting on august 22nd 2022
to discuss the responses
you do have hard copies of both the
g3 c2 response and the kagan response
uh you should have also received a link
i'm not sure if those links worked for
everybody
but you should have received an email
with electronic copies and now you have
hard copies
overall
the
evaluation committee felt that the g3 c2
proposal more fully responded to the rfq
especially in the process for designing
the concept
i i think the
both teams
had put together
qualified teams had experience with
previous projects
but the g3 c2 project really went above
and beyond related to describing the
process to engage stakeholders engage
the commission
and develop a concept that everybody
could be proud of
so the
selection
or evaluation committee unanimously
recommended moving forward with g3 c2
and so what are our next steps we're
looking
for
consensus from the cra board to allow
staff to negotiate a master plan
agreement
with g3c2
in parentheses there i wanted to point
out we had gotten direction from the cra
board in the city commission previously
to involve uh outside counsel in that
negotiation and so i just wanted to
remind you i think the discussion was
that we would
engage gunster who were using for some
land use items
so the um
everything though has to come back to
the cra board in the city commission and
so what you're authorizing uh us to do
is to negotiate an agreement that will
then come back to you for review
uh definitely to the cra board and then
potentially to the city commission
uh if the city commission or if the city
is involved in that agreement at all and
that's i think that's still to be
determined if the city has a role in
that agreement or if it's purely with
the cra
after that g3 c2 engages with the
commission staff the public and
stakeholders to develop a concept
and then after that we would move toward
a purchase or potential lease agreements
and that's all to be determined and
negotiated as a separate agreement
following concept development
so the recommendation would be to
authorize staff to negotiate a master
plan agreement with g3c2
and i'd be happy to answer any questions
you might have
any questions was there any discussion
about only receiving two
responses
i know the big deal with the last one
was that we only received one okay we
doubled it but was there any discussion
with the committee on that
there wasn't i mean there was extensive
discussion on
the content of the two proposals but
there
i don't think we had any substantive
discussion on the fact that it was two
proposals
was there any discussion that
that g3
c2
name was only done in july of this year
the
so g3
has an extensive history and background
as does c2 or construct 2
but the two partnered and created their
entity uh very recently and
um
i again i don't think there was a lot of
substantive discussion about the
partnership having just been formed
um because the the two principal
components of the partnership
have have a long history
so um i think the answer to your
question is
the committee did not have substantive
discussion about how recently created
the partnership was
anything else that's my recollection
anything else vice mayor anything
really
do we have any idea how long this this
process will end up taking
with g3 c2
i i don't
just because we need to we need to
engage them and we haven't been able to
do that
because the the rfq process is very
strict on
communication
and even amongst the committee members
we
once the rfq process begins the
evaluation committee members can't even
discuss the project outside of a public
meeting
and so we've not engaged with g3c2
on their their
expectations moving forward because we
kind of have to
resolve this rfq process first
um i
will again will the plan is to engage uh
outside counsel
um they are pretty responsive
um i
i it would be unrealistic for me to tell
you this is exactly how long i think
it's going to take
a clarification
the g3 2 c2 that's the two comma that's
their combined name
correct it is it is um g3
and construct2 okay
anything else willie
man
i'm ready to proceed will you proceed
tom anything else from you no that's it
anybody in the public like to speak on
this
not singing i'm looking for a motion
from the cra board um to authorize and
to to negotiate a master plan agreement
with g3c uh g3 c2 and llc regarding the
former waterman's site
so moved thank you
thank you ma'am any further discussion
not hearing any roll call please vice
mayor lee aye commissioner the hope
smith
commissioner cobb hi commissioner
hawkins aye
mayor holland aye
thank you tom anything else
uh
the the only other thing would be um
related to horace jones previous
presentation there was some discussion
about pulling together some cra
financials
i will share that with the i've pulled
that together
i just want to make some finishing
touches and then i'll get it out to
commission tonight or tomorrow morning
beautiful thank you okay thank you all
right
not hearing anything else we'll go ahead
and adjourn the cra meeting for now and
then we'll come back at six o'clock with
our regular city commission meeting
you