[0:03] hey good afternoon we are doing

[0:09] our public information meeting for 2023 for the Flint Township economic de

[0:16] development authorities that would include the Beach Road CIA the Flint

[0:20] Township DDA and the Bristol Road CIA I want to welcome everybody um we are

[0:26] having it today December 12th 2023 this is at the 5 o hour I am Tracy Tucker I'm

[0:32] the economic enhancement director for the economic development authorities so

[0:38] first of all I want to welcome you um these are pictures of some of the events

[0:42] that we had this year uh our Easter Bunny stop uh bunny trail uh we did go

[0:49] with uh the nmdc the I69 International Trade Corridor to uh Washington DC this

[0:57] year for the flying to talk to legislator

[1:00] about uh continuing I69 all the way through to Texas and to the uh to the

[1:08] ocean actually and then uh so it would go all the way from Canada all the way

[1:12] through the United States and finally be uh completed we had a uh ribbon cutting

[1:19] at success Learning Center uh they went into the old Pier One building uh the

[1:24] lower uh left corner would be our uh brand opening of ABC Warehouse who did

[1:30] an expansion this year um into the old uh leir Furniture Store uh the center

[1:38] photo with the kids there that was a Halloween trick-or-treating indoor at

[1:42] jese Valley Center and then one of our Premier Events the Trunks and treats uh

[1:48] at Shea Automotive Group in conjunction with jenese County 911 that's the

[1:53] picture of the minion down there we have approximately 35 first responder

[1:58] agencies that work with us during that time um some of our Su successes this

[2:05] year have been Tommy's Car Wash the gym uh in the Oldtown and Country bowling

[2:11] alley uh we had King cigar come in the pet house and Andy's wings uh printcom

[2:18] is uh going to be doing an expansion in the next year success online learning

[2:24] center we did tell you about that Central Transport uh came in uh there's

[2:29] a new gas station coming soon at the corner of lyen and Bristol Road

[2:34] Chick-fil-A everybody has asked about that uh Savvy sliders uh the township

[2:39] Car Wash is going into the old fouches car wash um we had uh baker has two

[2:46] projects so far the uh jensy County Health Systems has bought the main

[2:52] building and the library building there and they will be coming in within the

[2:56] next year we also have dollar General it is completing a project at lyen Creek

[3:03] Parkway on lyen road complete Runner is now available in Flint Township the new

[3:08] Trail connection has been completed uh we have a 100,000 square foot e-commerce

[3:15] facility we were working with recharge and recycle which is working with EV

[3:20] batteries and the um Electrical Workers Union that's here in the township off of

[3:26] Commerce exchange uh 168 ABB has went into the linor plaza we have a new

[3:33] Starbucks building coming soon on uh Coran road in front of Sam's uh

[3:39] appliances for Less has went into the old Crispy Cream building so that is now

[3:45] filled and ABC Warehouse expansion those are just some of those overall we've had

[3:51] over $35 million and new investment into our community in this past year uh just

[3:58] to give you an overall View of the Flint Township DDA for

[4:03] 2023 um our base year was at 220

[4:10] m9960 now the capture on that uh which means we had over $8 million a new

[4:16] investment is the 8 3121 197 our projected Tiff revenue for 2023

[4:23] was 190,000 and year to date we are at 18253

[4:30] some of the things we've spent the capture dollars on would be uh

[4:34] beautification at

[4:37] 43598 that includes uh cleaning the ramps that enter our community and

[4:43] various other uh projects such as uh uh the signage doing the flowers and things

[4:50] there and flowers at the uh uh parks and those things uh the Discover Flint

[4:56] Township community events and branding we spent about

[5:00] 35,000 uh website and planning we did 11,836 and Public Safety uh we had

[5:09] $30,000 uh going back to them this year that included a new gym facility for our

[5:16] fire department in station one for all of the fire people firemen and women to

[5:21] use uh Bristol Road CIA uh 2023 uh their base year was 129

[5:30] 85835 and our capture value as of last year was the

[5:38] 3498 321 so over $3 million in investment in just that small area our

[5:45] projected uh revenue for this year was 74595 and actual year to date is

[5:58] 75,200 on maintaining the expressways in their area and cleanup uh projects the

[6:06] uh community events and branding was 9,697 and website and planning was

[6:13] 1,650 and Public Safety has garnered 13,500 from the Bristol Road

[6:20] CIA they also um next year are starting a uh facade signage and uh Paving pilot

[6:32] program uh where they will grant uh facilities I believe they set their

[6:37] amount at $2,000 and we will have more information

[6:41] out on that in March beater Road CIA

[6:47] 2023 uh the taxable value at their base year was $9.6 Million 9668 444 to be

[6:56] exact uh their capture now is at 2 898 741 so they've had uh just shy of $3

[7:04] million in investment they had projected Tiff

[7:08] revenue of 42820 and year-to date actual was

[7:14] 65,67 for um they uh spent some uh money on beautification of $4,000 that

[7:23] included their Paving uh pilot program uh where we worked with business to give

[7:30] grants of up to $1,500 uh for um them to uh improve

[7:37] their parking lot areas and they did have three uh businesses that have

[7:43] participated in that and then part of The Branding and community events their

[7:48] expenditure was 4454 and website and planning was

[7:53] 1,250 and they contributed $111,000 to the public safety um

[8:02] fund so the events we had we did talk about them somewhat uh part of uh what

[8:08] we had was our bunny trail which has been a huge success we had approximately

[8:14] 800 participants along with the bunny trail at uh 800 participants at the

[8:21] Easter egg hunt and along with that we had uh 42 businesses that participated

[8:28] as bunny stops and it was a great event everybody had a great time we also had

[8:35] the uh tricker treating at the mall uh with at jese Valley Center that was an

[8:42] indoor one we helped them with that they ended up with about 3,000 people coming

[8:47] in to participate uh the following day we had

[8:50] our Trunks and treats at Shea Automotive Group in conjunction with Shay Security

[8:55] Credit Union Dort Federal Credit Union or I'm sorry D Financial Credit Credit

[8:59] Union um hap uh and uh I said jn1 and Shay and

[9:06] Brilliant marketing uh we have approximately 10,000 people participate

[9:11] in that with over 35 First Responders that participate in handing out candy we

[9:19] actually handed out uh over seven and a half pallets of candy if you can believe

[9:24] it we also do our national night out uh with the police department we help them

[9:29] out with that I believe they had approximately a, to 1500 people show up

[9:34] to that it's a wonderful event uh we helped them out very minimally with uh

[9:39] advertising and that type of thing uh but they do all the work and they do a

[9:43] great job of it we uh did have the uh we worked with the city of sartz Creek for

[9:50] a trail extension while uh that was most was paid by ARA funds and grants uh we

[9:57] did help them out uh uh with logistical uh things that they needed

[10:03] one of the other things that we did was we did work with uh jese Valley Center

[10:08] to do a welcome Santa Claus event uh we ended up with about 200 people uh

[10:14] participating in that it was a great event it was a nice way to start the

[10:18] holiday season and this year uh we did not do the alun we're going to

[10:23] reconfigure that for next year but we did invest uh

[10:30] uh the monies that we would have spent on that in the welcome Santa and then

[10:35] also in doing weekly remotes at some of our small businesses all over Flint

[10:41] Township so we've been doing that we had the first one was on December 2nd and we

[10:47] did the 9th the 16th and we'll do the 23rd as well and those have been really

[10:53] great the businesses have really liked it because we let them uh talk on air

[10:56] during the remotes it's a lot of fun

[11:02] um this is a list of our board of directors uh chairman wi Cooper Vice

[11:06] chairman John gazelle Treasurer Kevin stiff Gary heran Lawrence Ratliff Nino

[11:12] Sapone Joon o salivan Butler and trustee Dev Campbell uh one of the things that

[11:18] was a huge success this year obviously Chick-fil-A everybody wanted him here

[11:22] everybody was uh so grateful to have them come but one of the things was as

[11:26] you can see in this picture at the corner of lond in Miller Road um we had

[11:30] a safety issue that was there uh the DDA board wanted us to address it to uh find

[11:37] a way to get a light mounted there and I uh do need to thank the jenes County

[11:42] Road Commission because when we went to them with the problem they had some

[11:46] other work they needed to do there and they went ahead and put up the light

[11:50] with for us at no cost so we're very happy to have that

[11:56] there uh Bristol Road CIA 2023 board of directors our chairman Brad keran Vice

[12:02] chairman Chris wheeler secretary Randy kilbreth uh Stefan Smith trusty Carol

[12:08] faf doall and Mr Wilson lahood um this has been a great group

[12:13] and next year like I said uh one of the projects they want us to uh try out is

[12:19] going to be a pilot program uh for Grant dollars for our um businesses in the

[12:25] corridor Improvement authority to do uh facade improvements sign improvements or

[12:32] parking lot improvements uh and we will have more

[12:37] information on that available soon Beach Road CIA 2023 board of

[12:44] directors uh chairman is Patty Williams Vice chairman is Michael Aversa

[12:50] secretary is the clerk man triplet treasure is Michael mcgay and Angela

[12:56] mall and this is a picture of one of the uh facilities that did do the repairs on

[13:02] their parking lot they also did new striping in the parking lot and it looks

[13:06] a lot better than what it does so we're very happy to see people using that

[13:10] program and we love seeing the

[13:14] results uh the Charter Township of Flint does have an economic development

[13:19] corporation uh in where uh interlocal partners with MEC and we also have a

[13:25] Brownfield Development Authority they are one group uh is Chairman Lawrence

[13:30] Ratliff Vice chairman Enrique Rodriguez treasure Jean Levett Senor secretary

[13:36] Grace glass uh Dave Huffman truste Carol faf doll and truste Barb bird and the

[13:44] picture here was we did have a uh Economic Development strategy session

[13:50] where we reviewed our economic development plan that we have in place

[13:54] and we felt it was time to give it another look and we took some a lot of

[13:59] great information out of that meeting and we've tried to implement

[14:03] that our Charter Township of Flint Board of Trustees as you can see in the

[14:08] picture there they uh went to eat more chicken um but we have supervisor Kieran

[14:14] Miller uh clerk man triplet Treasurer Tom CLE trustee Debbie Campbell trusty

[14:21] Carol faf doall trusty barbert and truste Greg

[14:27] King and uh this is my information if you have any questions or you'd like to

[14:32] email me call me uh whatever you want to do that there's all the information

[14:37] there uh one of the things I like to show is in

[14:40] 2022 uh we had about 882 uh followers uh which was great you

[14:46] know because we started out with zero and uh but over the past year we've

[14:51] gotten we uh doubled that and we're at 1756 uh social media has been very good

[14:59] for us it's a it's a very uh costeff effective way to get our message out to

[15:05] everyone so thank you for tuning in that you'll

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