[0:00] There are a meeting of the CAC to order. Just as a reminder, this is our inaugural live streaming event. So as such, if you guys are wanting to talk, make sure that you talk clearly into the microphone. At this point, Steve, if you would like to do the role. Jessica Vargo. Carl Talsma. Jim Schulte. Lee Lust. Steve Panzer. John Consilio. Abigail Burke.

[0:30] Kevin Fallon, Greg Tracey, Steve Sirely, and Megan.

[0:41] So please note that Jason and John are not here.

[0:45] I did, and I'm not going to check with you.

[0:47] Okay, our next item is to adopt the agenda as printed.

[0:52] Just as an editorial, under executive session, we'll be talking about sale and

[0:59] purchase of property.

[1:01] So we have that small edit.

[1:04] Is there a motion to approve the agenda as printed?

[1:06] So moved.

[1:08] That was Steve Panster, is there a second?

[1:10] Second.

[1:11] Carl?

[1:12] No.

[1:14] Any edits, questions?

[1:17] Oh, I'm favoring to Kate by saying aye.

[1:19] Aye.

[1:20] Anybody opposed?

[1:22] All right, then that carries.

[1:23] The next item is to adopt the minutes from our August 12th meeting.

[1:28] They were sent to you electronically, but you also have them in front of you hard copy.

[1:33] I'll entertain a motion once someone is ready to do so.

[2:10] I think I got it.

[2:13] Yeah, let's put it on camera too.

[2:16] Okay, Jim, is there a second?

[2:18] Yes, there's a second.

[2:21] Okay.

[2:21] Pantser?

[2:22] Are there

[2:25] any edits?

[2:28] All in favor, indicate by saying aye.

[2:30] Aye.

[2:31] Anybody opposed?

[2:33] Anyone abstaining?

[2:36] All

[2:39] right. Those are approved. The next item is the Treasurer's Report, the Receipts and Disbursements. Steve, is there anything you'd like to highlight?

[2:52] The only thing that it seems like we have maybe some rents missing that have not been in yet. That should be in for this month because next month starts what we talked about. Is that correct?

[3:06] And then we also have some past due amounts on the 1475 residential.

[3:15] But you can see on the back of the page current cash balance, 343,174.20.

[3:22] Last month we had talked about putting that in some sort of interest bearing.

[3:27] There will be a couple things to talk about in executive session that we put a pin in at

[3:31] and so we'll deal with that later in the meeting.

[3:35] Are there any questions for Steve?

[3:39] Give me a moment to take a look at it.

[4:32] Any questions?

[4:35] All right.

[4:36] In terms of the President's report, Pride 1, we thought that we would be seeing a possible

[4:42] amendment this month, but it's being kicked down the road, and so we'll be revisiting that.

[4:48] Next month, there are some items relating to that that will handle an executive session.

[4:54] So we'll move to the executive director's report.

[4:58] First, I'm requesting permission to apply for grant funding from the Howard Department

[5:03] of Development, Building Demolition and Site Revitalization Program.

[5:07] The funding just opened, and I reached out to the Summit County Land Bank.

[5:11] They're the lead agency on this funding.

[5:13] They were really excited about the project.

[5:15] Highly encouraged us to put in an application.

[5:17] I actually already started filling it out, and she, I was lucky enough to sit next to

[5:22] her at the state of the county and they were saying it was, it was, it was looking great.

[5:29] I did ask her, you know, if we could get the demolition funded for the south side,

[5:34] whether we should keep going and if they are eligible because we haven't made any steps.

[5:40] She said absolutely, they feel like they would cover five, all five buildings at this point.

[5:45] I think if we wanted to, we would have to give termination letter to our final residential property, 1475, South Cleveland, Maslan Road, and we could also include Sundance in that with just a letter from them that we have permission and that there's intent to purchase.

[6:03] We'll talk about that further down if that is a final deal and we decide we would like to include that.

[6:11] You're also able to do some work to get the parcel site ready.

[6:16] They recommended that we possibly build a sidewalk.

[6:20] I don't know if that's, you know, we are going to be coming through possibly with some roundabout work and the copy trail.

[6:28] But I talked to Greg and we could possibly fill some gaps there.

[6:30] So a rough estimate on that was an additional $30,000 request for sidewalk and landscaping.

[6:38] And lastly, then we would be able to include, you can do 10% of the requests can be for acquisition.

[6:44] So we could make back $8,600 for Sundance on the acquisition of that.

[6:52] And I mean, this is all I could think to request at this point.

[6:55] So if you can think of anything else that we could do to possibly enhance the deal for the developer,

[7:00] I could check it and see if that's something we would want to include, but he did read me the list

[7:06] and the only thing that I that sounded eligible was sidewalks at this point. Infrastructure that

[7:11] wasn't anything that was on the table.

[7:16] We had talked about like putting some light landscaping,

[7:20] so I didn't know if we did have to do some placeholder landscaping to make it more appealing.

[7:25] I actually liked it more for wiggle room in case there's a spestus.

[7:29] So if we do have a high spestus cost, I feel like it'd be very likely I could take the

[7:34] money from the site revitalization and move it to a spestus mid-grant and make that request.

[7:41] It was, it's like per 30,000 was the amount for the sidewalk, yeah.

[7:45] But it also give us wiggle room during demolition if we find a spestus.

[7:49] It's not on the quote right now, so I think it would be a hard request for them to fund that.

[7:59] there was not a cap but there is a 25 percent match.

[8:16] I

[8:21] mean that'll take our

[8:26] match up so I didn't know where where we want to be where I'm at right now

[8:30] we're about 20,000 I know we had already approved 55,000 for demolition so I

[8:36] I don't know where you want me to stay, how much savings we want to get using this grant.

[8:48] Yeah.

[8:48] We're talking very late.

[8:50] And that was the Lewis, that was the late deal.

[8:54] And then that would be all.

[9:00] Yeah.

[9:01] It would.

[9:02] That would have been my suggestion.

[9:17] The motion did increase it.

[9:19] Can you move the demolition number up as well?

[9:23] We could.

[9:24] I know it's 64, basically, on a few minutes from last month.

[9:28] That was not including the residential, because we had signed the quote for, I was going to turn in the quote, we're going to add it like a supplemental one for the other one.

[9:43] So right now I'm requesting what I can turn in documentation for.

[9:46] We have 15 to go to the building.

[9:52] Okay.

[9:55] Okay.

[9:56] And have butchering son possibly write me up something for asbestos, a quote.

[10:01] You have to submit an inquiry.

[10:07] Yeah, so I'm going to submit our letters with it as part of the package.

[10:14] I was excited Sundance offered to include a letter of support if we include them.

[10:19] And I have a letter of support from the schools if we're able to include Sundance in the package.

[10:25] And I feel like having some support on this is really strengthens the package, so I don't know what we'll decide

[10:37] Just because at the time it felt like they were causing us the least amount of grief and so and at the time

[10:46] We had no interest in the property, so we were thinking okay, let's just you know for these

[10:52] is let's get that part of the corner ready

[10:55] and we'll deal with it down the road.

[11:00] But even though they applied for the rent relief grant

[11:04] and we did receive monies from United Way,

[11:07] right off the get-go after that, they're behind.

[11:12] So that is not, because the thought was

[11:14] and they had indicated that we just need to get caught up.

[11:18] Once we get caught up, we're gonna be fine.

[11:20] Well, they're not fine, you know.

[11:22] So we still have an issue.

[11:24] So then it kind of makes you think that maybe we go ahead and terminate.

[11:30] So that was before we knew about this laying bank?

[11:34] Yes, yes.

[11:37] I have a 30 days notice clause.

[11:41] Well, the release is up by month.

[11:44] Well, because I think it was up in October, right?

[11:47] Yeah, it's a 30 day.

[11:47] I did pull that and double check it.

[11:51] There are also two months behind, possibly three, I have to double check, it's an issue every month.

[12:03] There's a lot of stuff that's going on in executive session.

[12:06] I guess the rent piece, I guess we've done that before in open session, if there was a consensus that we wanted to go ahead and

[12:16] the letter termination for the 1475 residential home.

[12:20] We could do that in open session unless people wanted to think more about it.

[12:26] Do you

[12:43] have an idea?

[12:45] He said this was a fast grant typically.

[12:48] So he felt like we would probably have an answer by January.

[13:03] Can we table this into after executive session?

[13:06] Yeah. Yeah. Yes. I'm because I think there are some pieces there that

[13:11] I'm trying to talk about a personal rent issue.

[13:15] Okay.

[13:17] Sanctity for them. Okay. I think I'm talking about rent for business. Sure. Okay. All right. So let's move on to your.

[13:26] Okay. And then I just wanted to put out just in this can be part of the discussion too or just part of the thought process.

[13:32] There are development grants on my radar right now. So GR has a capital grant that just opened for $50,000.

[13:38] dollars, they're looking for projects that have a story like ours, like something that's

[13:45] in your downtown that is blighted, that needs to revitalize a building.

[13:49] I think we're a great candidate for it, so I feel like that's something we can, if we

[13:54] have a developer on the table, we could definitely apply for it, I think we should apply for.

[14:01] Also, the jobs, Ohio vibrant communities, it's a rolling grant, it's always open, there's

[14:08] a 50% match, it's up to a million dollars.

[14:11] This is for smaller cities, towns and villages, it aligns with our story, it's for economic

[14:19] development projects in a downtown vicinity, so I feel like this is another grant if we have

[14:25] a developer on the table that we should go for.

[14:29] So potentially wherever you know it has a 50% match, so I don't know how what will be on the table, but

[14:36] Definitely something that I think should be offered to the developer and apply for

[14:42] Okay, so does it do you want to hold on the resolution crafted until afterwards?

[14:46] We're table and that's it. Oh mini grant request

[14:50] us.

[14:55] Both coply and teak mull and velvet vintage have put in requests for many grants.

[15:00] Copy antique mall submitted a quote from blue men moving for $2,000 to help them move to their new location in Barberdon. It says $2,500. And then $500 additionally to buy new pegboards.

[15:16] velvet vintage originally was going to try and purchase a building the deal did not go through they so wanted me to

[15:24] put in a request to help them put a down payment hopefully to purchase a building they have they don't have anything on their radar right now

[15:31] so no perspective building

[15:33] to purchase but just at least wanted to present it today not sure

[15:40] what your pulse is even on mini grants at this point but

[15:44] Just as a reminder, we came back and gave them two months free and thought behind that

[15:51] that would be two months that they could use those rent monies and that would be able

[15:54] to help them with the move.

[15:55] So that was our original thought process and what we offered and they seemed to be both

[16:00] agreeable to that and now we have these requests.

[16:05] I did help them apply for a $15,000 amber grant and we should know the answer to that in

[16:11] a week.

[16:12] So this is a complete community proof of cooperation, right?

[16:16] So I'm not sure if we should be looking at buying buildings at Norton or helping people

[16:20] move to Barbara unless we're saying that we're better off without it and here's a ticket

[16:24] out of town.

[16:25] I don't think we should say that.

[16:26] No.

[16:27] That was a concern.

[16:29] All you've written about is the businesses in town.

[16:31] Yeah.

[16:34] What is this 338,000?

[16:37] Yeah.

[16:38] So that was the original, like, they were going to put a bid on a house and then they were

[16:41] needed improvements, and it was the whole gamut in terms of what possibly they were going

[16:47] to be able to outlay either directly or by way of a loan, and it was just like a laundry

[16:52] list. Now at the end of the day, they didn't get that one, so it's kind of moot, but yeah,

[16:56] they gave us the laundry list of items that they were going to be incurring.

[17:01] Have we shared open properties around couples in the places, okay?

[17:07] Yes.

[17:08] We've even helped facilitate possible rental,

[17:12] happily commons, John, lower rent, and try to make some very viable.

[17:22] He reduced his rent by 500 to $1,500 for the first space down there,

[17:28] very comparable to what she has here and she didn't want that so well

[17:37] we have

[17:38] to give them some sort of response so if there's a okay

[17:47] so that was Lee and

[17:49] then Jason all

[17:53] right so we have a motion on the table any questions or comments

[17:56] regarding it all in favor indicate by saying aye anybody opposed okay that

[18:03] carries. Do you have anything else? Okay, so we will be going into executive

[18:11] session, but we have Mark with us and he was with us the last meeting. Did you

[18:16] have anything that you wanted to ask before we?

[18:23] Okay,

[18:30] sure.

[18:36] Okay.

[18:44] We may need

[18:45] some help find a temporary home for that historical armstone in the interim. So

[18:51] that might be something that we could work together on.

[18:55] Okay, well thank you for

[18:56] coming. At this point, we're going to be going in executive session, so I'll have to ask you to

[19:01] Depart.

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