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hey good
afternoon we are doing

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our public information meeting for
2023 for the Flint Township economic de

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development authorities that would
include the Beach Road CIA the Flint

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Township DDA and the Bristol Road CIA I
want to welcome everybody um we are

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

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the economic enhancement director for
the economic development authorities so

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first of all I want to welcome you um
these are pictures of some of the events

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that we had this year uh our Easter
Bunny stop uh bunny trail uh we did go

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with uh the nmdc the I69 International
Trade Corridor to uh Washington DC this

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year for the flying to talk to
legislator

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about uh continuing I69 all the way
through to Texas and to the uh to the

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ocean actually and then uh so it would
go all the way from Canada all the way

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through the United States and finally be
uh completed we had a uh ribbon cutting

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at success Learning Center uh they went
into the old Pier One building uh the

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lower uh left corner would be our uh
brand opening of ABC Warehouse who did

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an expansion this year um into the old
uh leir Furniture Store uh the center

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photo with the kids there that was a
Halloween trick-or-treating indoor at

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jese Valley Center and then one of our
Premier Events the Trunks and treats uh

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at Shea Automotive Group in conjunction
with jenese County 911 that's the

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picture of the minion down there we have
approximately 35 first responder

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agencies that work with us during that
time um some of our Su successes this

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year have been Tommy's Car Wash the gym
uh in the Oldtown and Country bowling

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alley uh we had King cigar come in the
pet house and Andy's wings uh printcom

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is uh going to be doing an expansion in
the next year success online learning

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center we did tell you about that
Central Transport uh came in uh there's

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a new gas station coming soon at the
corner of lyen and Bristol Road

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Chick-fil-A everybody has asked about
that uh Savvy sliders uh the township

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Car Wash is going into the old fouches
car wash um we had uh baker has two

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projects so far the uh jensy County
Health Systems has bought the main

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building and the library building there
and they will be coming in within the

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next year we also have dollar General it
is completing a project at lyen Creek

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Parkway on lyen road complete Runner is
now available in Flint Township the new

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Trail connection has been completed uh
we have a 100,000 square foot e-commerce

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facility we were working with recharge
and recycle which is working with EV

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batteries and the um Electrical Workers
Union that's here in the township off of

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Commerce exchange uh 168 ABB has went
into the linor plaza we have a new

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Starbucks building coming soon on uh
Coran road in front of Sam's uh

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appliances for Less has went into the
old Crispy Cream building so that is now

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filled and ABC Warehouse expansion those
are just some of those overall we've had

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over $35 million and new investment into
our community in this past year uh just

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to give you an overall View of the Flint
Township DDA for

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2023 um our base year was at
220

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m9960 now the capture on that uh which
means we had over $8 million a new

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investment is the 8 3121
197 our projected Tiff revenue for 2023

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was 190,000 and year to date we are at
18253

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some of the things we've spent the
capture dollars on would be uh

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beautification at

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43598 that includes uh cleaning the
ramps that enter our community and

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various other uh projects such as uh uh
the signage doing the flowers and things

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there and flowers at the uh uh parks and
those things uh the Discover Flint

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Township community events and branding
we spent about

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35,000 uh website and planning we did
11,836 and Public Safety uh we had

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$30,000 uh going back to them this year
that included a new gym facility for our

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fire department in station one for all
of the fire people firemen and women to

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use uh Bristol Road CIA uh
2023 uh their base year was 129

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85835 and our capture value as of last
year was the

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3498 321 so over $3 million in
investment in just that small area our

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projected uh revenue for this year was
74595 and actual year to date is

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75,200 on maintaining the expressways in
their area and cleanup uh projects the

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uh community events and branding was
9,697 and website and planning was

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1,650 and Public Safety has garnered
13,500 from the Bristol Road

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CIA they also um next year are starting
a uh facade signage and uh Paving pilot

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program uh where they will grant uh
facilities I believe they set their

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amount at
$2,000 and we will have more information

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out on that in
March beater Road CIA

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2023 uh the taxable value at their base
year was $9.6 Million 9668 444 to be

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

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million in
investment they had projected Tiff

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revenue of
42820 and year-to date actual was

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65,67 for um they uh spent some uh money
on beautification of $4,000 that

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included their Paving uh pilot program
uh where we worked with business to give

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grants of up to
$1,500 uh for um them to uh improve

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their parking lot areas and they did
have three uh businesses that have

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participated in that and then part of
The Branding and community events their

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expenditure was
4454 and website and planning was

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1,250 and they contributed $111,000 to
the public safety um

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fund so the events we had we did talk
about them somewhat uh part of uh what

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we had was our bunny trail which has
been a huge success we had approximately

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800 participants along with the bunny
trail at uh 800 participants at the

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Easter egg hunt and along with that we
had uh 42 businesses that participated

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as bunny stops and it was a great event
everybody had a great time we also had

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the uh tricker treating at the mall uh
with at jese Valley Center that was an

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indoor one we helped them with that they
ended up with about 3,000 people coming

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in to
participate uh the following day we had

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our Trunks and treats at Shea Automotive
Group in conjunction with Shay Security

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Credit Union Dort Federal Credit Union
or I'm sorry D Financial Credit Credit

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Union um
hap uh and uh I said jn1 and Shay and

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Brilliant marketing uh we have
approximately 10,000 people participate

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in that with over 35 First Responders
that participate in handing out candy we

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actually handed out uh over seven and a
half pallets of candy if you can believe

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it we also do our national night out uh
with the police department we help them

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out with that I believe they had
approximately a, to 1500 people show up

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to that it's a wonderful event uh we
helped them out very minimally with uh

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advertising and that type of thing uh
but they do all the work and they do a

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great job of it we uh did have the uh we
worked with the city of sartz Creek for

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a trail extension while uh that was most
was paid by ARA funds and grants uh we

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did help them out uh uh with
logistical uh things that they needed

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one of the other things that we did was
we did work with uh jese Valley Center

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to do a welcome Santa Claus event uh we
ended up with about 200 people uh

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participating in that it was a great
event it was a nice way to start the

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holiday season and this year uh we did
not do the alun we're going to

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reconfigure that for next year but we
did invest uh

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uh the monies that we would have spent
on that in the welcome Santa and then

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also in doing weekly remotes at some of
our small businesses all over Flint

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Township so we've been doing that we had
the first one was on December 2nd and we

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did the 9th the 16th and we'll do the
23rd as well and those have been really

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great the businesses have really liked
it because we let them uh talk on air

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during the remotes it's a lot of fun

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um this is a list of our board of
directors uh chairman wi Cooper Vice

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chairman John gazelle Treasurer Kevin
stiff Gary heran Lawrence Ratliff Nino

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Sapone Joon o salivan Butler and trustee
Dev Campbell uh one of the things that

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was a huge success this year obviously
Chick-fil-A everybody wanted him here

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everybody was uh so grateful to have
them come but one of the things was as

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you can see in this picture at the
corner of lond in Miller Road um we had

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a safety issue that was there uh the DDA
board wanted us to address it to uh find

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a way to get a light mounted there and I
uh do need to thank the jenes County

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Road Commission because when we went to
them with the problem they had some

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other work they needed to do there and
they went ahead and put up the light

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with for us at no cost so we're very
happy to have that

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there uh Bristol Road CIA 2023 board of
directors our chairman Brad keran Vice

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chairman Chris wheeler secretary Randy
kilbreth uh Stefan Smith trusty Carol

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faf doall and Mr Wilson
lahood um this has been a great group

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and next year like I said uh one of the
projects they want us to uh try out is

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going to be a pilot program uh for Grant
dollars for our um businesses in the

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corridor Improvement authority to do uh
facade improvements sign improvements or

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parking lot
improvements uh and we will have more

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information on that available
soon Beach Road CIA 2023 board of

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directors uh chairman is Patty Williams
Vice chairman is Michael Aversa

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secretary is the clerk man triplet
treasure is Michael mcgay and Angela

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mall and this is a picture of one of the
uh facilities that did do the repairs on

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their parking lot they also did new
striping in the parking lot and it looks

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a lot better than what it does so we're
very happy to see people using that

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program and we love seeing the

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results uh the Charter Township of Flint
does have an economic development

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corporation uh in where uh interlocal
partners with MEC and we also have a

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Brownfield Development Authority they
are one group uh is Chairman Lawrence

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Ratliff Vice chairman Enrique Rodriguez
treasure Jean Levett Senor secretary

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Grace glass uh Dave Huffman truste Carol
faf doll and truste Barb bird and the

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picture here was we did have a uh
Economic Development strategy session

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where we reviewed our economic
development plan that we have in place

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and we felt it was time to give it
another look and we took some a lot of

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great information out of that meeting
and we've tried to implement

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that our Charter Township of Flint Board
of Trustees as you can see in the

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picture there they uh went to eat more
chicken um but we have supervisor Kieran

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Miller uh clerk man triplet Treasurer
Tom CLE trustee Debbie Campbell trusty

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Carol faf doall trusty barbert and
truste Greg

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King and uh this is my information if
you have any questions or you'd like to

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email me call me uh whatever you want to
do that there's all the information

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there uh one of the things I like to
show is in

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2022 uh we had about
882 uh followers uh which was great you

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know because we started out with zero
and uh but over the past year we've

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gotten we uh doubled that and we're at
1756 uh social media has been very good

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for us it's a it's a very uh costeff
effective way to get our message out to

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everyone so thank you for tuning in that
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