[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
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