[0:00] On camera we're good. I mean, I went live. Thank you, Dana. Good

[0:08] morning, everybody. Welcome to the October 8th, 2026. Property Redevelopment Commission

[0:15] meeting. Monica, would you please run a roll call? Yes, Ron Dedelson, I'm here. Mayor

[0:23] Eckstein here, Dana Watley here. Uh, I don't see Chad Youngster as present at the

[0:27] moment. Uh, Bob Kingry and also present myself, Monica Smith, and we also have, uh,

[0:33] attorney Tyler Rothstein via Zoom. Yes. And Cherry Brown and Cherry Brown, I'm so

[0:38] sorry. Mrs. Brown is sitting at the other end also. Um, approval on the September

[0:46] 17, 2026. I hope that those minutes be approved. You have a motion to approve those

[0:53] minutes. Do I have a second? I'll second. I have a motion to second, Monica. Yep,

[0:57] Ron Nelson. Yes, Mayor Eckstein. Yes, Dana Watley. Yes, Bob Kingry, 40. All right,

[1:06] for you, Dana has done her due diligence on all the financials. I take mine out.

[1:14] I guess I might have some. We've got some down here if you need them.

[1:20] Hang on, I'm getting there. Maybe I found it. OK. All right, go ahead, Dana. Um,

[1:27] the Newberry Building has a balance of $15,000.90. The Tiff Industrial

[1:34] Park has $302,398.93. The TIFF fund has

[1:42] $698,662.84 and the Daniel's escrow account has

[1:49] $1,333.76.

[1:55] And then I provided itemized for you as well if you want to see that.

[2:01] Down there trying to figure out what the mayor's asking. Oh, I know what you're talking.

[2:05] Uh, thank you, Dana. Thank you for your accuracy as always. Uh, also, you'll see

[2:11] an individual fun detail sheet or if you wanna look that over if you can't sleep

[2:16] tonight. Um, I have a motion to accept the, um, Financial report has cited.

[2:25] We accept the financial report. We have emotional report. I have a 2nd, 2nd, an emotional

[2:30] second. Yes, Ron Deltason. Yes, Mayor Eckstein. Yes, Dana Watley. Yes, Rob Kingry.

[2:38] Yes, 40. Thank you, Dana. I know we have several other financial areas. Do you want

[2:44] to deal with these now or as we get into the other areas of the agenda? Whatever

[2:49] you guys want to do, it doesn't matter.

[2:55] OK. Mayor says let's get them now, so, OK, and you have the, I don't have the copies.

[2:59] You have them, so I'll just go with what you tell me, OK, um. I have 2 in front of

[3:06] me. One for executive elevator for the semiannual billing for the limited service

[3:13] agreement, that's $400. If you wanna look at it, here it is. If you don't wanna look

[3:18] at it, it's still here, uh, so we'll need a motion to approve that. Let's do that

[3:24] now. Do I have a motion to approve this $400? I'm openly approved the $400. We have

[3:30] a motion to approve for executive elevator $400. We have a second. I'll 2nd.

[3:40] Uh, Ron Edelson, Mayor Eckstein, Dana Watley, Bob Kingred, Bora, thanks.

[3:52] I can get all these inclusive. Um, Dana, I don't have, there were two invoices uh

[3:58] for SubZero, one, I'm running off memory, a little over 700. That was to do some

[4:06] electrical work in the basement and then there was one for was it 160 yeah well it

[4:10] was not very much money yeah so one for 160 and technically uh the mayor and I could

[4:17] approve those and we did approve the, the repair of it but if the board would like

[4:21] to do a vote voice vote to approve those two payments, you can get those paid and

[4:26] I'll take a motion for that. I have a motion to pay uh subzero. It was, it was under

[4:32] $1000. It was $16,700 and $700 I believe. So I'll take a motion to pay those.

[4:41] I move that we pay the $700 to Subzero. And the secondary, you wanna do them one

[4:48] at a time? Yeah, let's do them together. OK, go ahead and the, and the secondary

[4:52] one is which one? 160 160. So we have a motion on the floor to pay both of those

[4:58] to subzero. Do I have a second? I'll 2nd. OK, trying to get

[5:06] all that written down, um, Ron Delson, Mary Stein, Dana Watley, Bob Kinger, for real,

[5:14] thank you. Um, I have 2 invoices here. Mayor, I think you know more about this than

[5:20] I do. I hope you do. Uh, I have an invoice. Both of these are for Halsted architects.

[5:27] Um

[5:35] Um, well, I'm, I'm debating whether we can pay this one.

[5:41] Did you see both of these, Dana? Did you hand these to me or did you hand these?

[5:44] No, um, I handed them to you. Um, Paula sent it via mail, um. One is

[5:57] Yeah, I got that one in the mail. I wanna say it's an overdue. And I don't believe

[6:03] I'll have to look and see if it's already been paid. OK. I don't know.

[6:10] It was $57 or something $54.54 dollars 54 $15. I said it must have just been

[6:18] so I need to look. I know we paid them something. I had a couple invoices. It may

[6:23] be crossing in the mail or something. OK. Do you have any recommendation, Dana? Why

[6:28] don't we, um. Why don't you guys, uh, if you wanna vote to approve to pay it if it's

[6:36] not already paid, but I'll report back and let you know what the status is. That

[6:40] would be wonderful. So I'll make the motion that if this is, um, Needs to be paid

[6:45] and has not authorized Dana to make the payment of $54.15. All right, so we have

[6:52] a motion. I have a second. I'll check. Thank you.

[6:57] Uh, Ron Devison, yes, Mayor Eckstein, yes, Dana Watley, yes, Bob Kingbury, Core,

[7:04] OK. So, I have before me and Did everybody get this? Yes, yes, you all got

[7:12] this. So as we move into the renovation of Newberry. Uh, obviously, there,

[7:19] it's gonna be ready grant money, but part of the ready grant process is, uh, that's

[7:24] only for construction. So architectural fees do not apply and those have to be funded

[7:29] somewhere and somewhere I believe is here. So, um, Mayor, I'm gonna

[7:37] I will go through the top part of this, and I think you know more about this than

[7:40] I do, so I'm gonna let you address this. But so far, um, part of that architectural

[7:46] process, we had a gentleman come in, do a 3 dimensional laser scan of the entire

[7:50] building, which is pretty darn cool if you haven't seen it, we'll let you look at

[7:54] it. Um, he was there 2 days, I think, and I think he measured everything but a cockroach.

[8:02] I mean, he was up in there. He had it all over the place, which thankfully we don't,

[8:05] which, yeah, thankfully we do not have it, um. So, um

[8:13] There were 3 fees on here, Mayor. I'm gonna hand this to you and let you share your

[8:17] wisdom as you can if you wanna. Anything else I know, uh, OK. Do we need to just

[8:26] just. She was Let me go. OK, thank you. Thank you. OK, well then I may have

[8:34] to.

[8:37] So, so we're meeting with him tomorrow. Part of, since we officially got the radio

[8:43] grant, the, if you look at in the middle of the page 2 and 3 is the architectural

[8:50] fee to move forward on the, the project. The original, like number one was just the,

[8:58] the land, the laser. So we're talking about the condos and then um the other part

[9:04] of the building. We had talked about scaling some of this down, so why don't we have

[9:10] a discussion with Mike tomorrow, um, to figure out exactly what this is, and, and

[9:18] I think I can explain that for you. It probably has a little. So basically what we're

[9:23] talking about was there you'll see the, the fee at the bottom which was the total

[9:29] combined fee, and we don't know at this point how far the ready grant money is gonna

[9:33] take us. I don't think your microphone's on. I don't think your microphone's on.

[9:38] My mic isn't on. I don't hear you. Is that better? Yeah, better, sir.

[9:44] So, um, what we've asked the architects to do is to break this down into condo fees.

[9:51] And piecemeal it out so that then we can, we can go this far and then add this on

[9:56] and then add this on. And so, we'll talk to them tomorrow when we go through the

[10:00] building and we'll get a breakdown and we'll address this in November, if that's

[10:08] Acceptable to the board. And I can feel any questions, I think I can feel questions

[10:13] for you.

[10:16] No questions? No. OK. We'll keep you, we'll keep you guys updated.

[10:22] Um And that is the architectural agreement, I believe we've moved on into that. Yes.

[10:32] So When America comes back, I will readdress that. I don't think we have to have

[10:38] this signed yet. We can sign this at any point in time.

[10:44] Um, let's move on to the Newberry Building. I have a couple of areas here. Um,

[10:52] One of them was the sub-zero payment, we've just paid it, so that's good. Um, we

[10:58] did have one of the air, the makeup air air conditioning unit, if you recall way

[11:02] back when the kitchen was hot, and we ended up on the initial installation, uh, they

[11:07] didn't put an air conditioning unit in the, uh, in the hood, and we've had that done.

[11:13] Uh, that unit froze up, we're gonna have to have some dialogue with, um, With the

[11:19] tenants to make sure that that gets turned off or we're gonna have to either put

[11:24] a timer on that so that it doesn't freeze up and it doesn't run 24/7. Um, Dana.

[11:32] I know we talked last month about insurance putting that on a quarterly. Where do

[11:37] we stand on that? Bear with me one second, OK, OK.

[11:44] Hey Ron, while she finishes that, this is kind of Newberry related. Can I go ahead

[11:48] and give you a little bit of update on um what's going on with People's Marketplace

[11:53] and maybe that'll give me a chance to get back. So, uh, they have 47 vendors moving

[11:59] into the holiday season. So very excited about that. And last night we kicked off

[12:04] the Makers to Market program that we have some vendors participating over at Mad

[12:09] Jack's. They received a grant for this pilot project. Which is really exciting. So

[12:15] they're bringing in um professionals in the maker space um to talk about everything

[12:23] from scaling to marketing to pricing to help vendors really meet them where they're

[12:27] at and then uh and entrepreneurs. And, you know, move to the next level. So there

[12:33] were, I believe, about 18 people there last night. So it's gonna be a really phenomenal

[12:40] program, really excited to have some local people being able to go through that at

[12:43] no cost. People that are going through it received uh membership to the Maker, to

[12:48] Mag Jack's Maker Space, which has phenomenal resources. They have all kinds of woodworking

[12:53] and printing and 3D and computer um access over there. So all kinds of great things

[12:59] that are happening there. As a point of conversation, and we're kind of waiting on

[13:04] the mayor to come back, but um, Would it be advantageous? Would it be profitable

[13:11] for somebody to come in next month as we're winding down the end of that lease to,

[13:16] to talk to us just to kind of recap a little bit, or would you rather wait till December

[13:21] to do that? No, December will probably get really crazy. Uh, so next month would

[13:26] be, yeah, we're already there, but, um, just as a reminder, I believe it was this

[13:31] meeting just one year ago that we've Brought this idea forward. RDC voted to support

[13:38] the effort. It's been a journey and it's been a wonderful journey, and they are still

[13:42] going. So, you know, with lots of prospects for, for the future and growth and exciting

[13:48] things happening there. So, and a lot of our local entrepreneurs have been supported

[13:52] through that effort. So thank you all. Um, in front of you, by the way, let me back

[13:57] up just to digress a little bit.

[14:02] Yeah, go ahead and give that back to Dana. Thank you, Bob. Um, in front of you, and

[14:07] then this is what we're gonna be talking about tomorrow, um, as we move into the

[14:12] condo project, uh, with the Ready Grant money, and there's gonna be more of a formal

[14:17] announcement of this somewhere in the future, but, uh, we're gonna be doing the condos

[14:21] on the 2nd and the 3rd floor, and what we're, we're gonna go through tomorrow and

[14:26] talk to, uh, the realtor, see what's viable, see what we think we'll sell. And how

[14:32] we're gonna design these, uh, there's some discussion right now, particularly on

[14:36] the 2nd floor, how we're going to design those. Part of the process we're gonna do

[14:41] this as a, as, as a bill operate transfer just like we did the basement on the bot,

[14:46] uh, with GM Enterprises, GM GM Enterprises, drug marts, and, uh.

[14:54] So, um, one of the things that we did at council meeting Monday night was we approved,

[15:00] for lack of a better term, I'm calling, I'm calling it a fiduciary oversight Committee

[15:05] that will monitor the spending, uh, of the, the Ready Grant money as we have to do.

[15:11] And on that, on that board would be Mayor Eckstein, myself, Councilman Bill Aspy,

[15:16] uh, Commissioner Dan Borgenheimer, and then Warren Brown is an advisory member, a

[15:22] very valued advisory member, I might add. So that's moving on to the future. Um,

[15:28] if we change these designs, we'll surely let you know, but as it stands right now,

[15:32] we're looking at 2 condos, 2nd floor, 2 condos, uh, 3rd floor, and, uh, they're not

[15:40] gonna, they're gonna be very, very nice units, so. We'll, we'll keep the public as

[15:46] we, as we see fit and as we know more, we'll, we'll get that out there. Anything

[15:53] else in Newberry? Did you have a question about insurance now? Oh yes, insurance.

[15:59] Are we gonna do that quarterly or right now we're doing it quarterly and Angela is

[16:03] shopping it, so I paid the first quarter. OK, so we've got a quarter to, yes, and

[16:09] then she's shopping to see if there's anything better out there. Does it look promising

[16:13] or is it too early? She's not said she's not got back to me, OK. Seemed like there

[16:18] was something else in Newberry I wanted to mention. Gosh, I can't remember what it

[16:21] is.

[16:26] I don't know. I don't know. It'll, it'll all come out next month, probably.

[16:33] OK. Flip over to Daniel's Building, um,

[16:44] I don't think as far as maintenance-wise, uh, let me back up on the entire building,

[16:49] um, we are fully, fully in with Courison now, and thankfully, knock on wood,

[16:57] um, the alarm issue we had, uh, has, has gone away so far. We, we think that's, we

[17:05] think that's a done deal. We think that's fixed now. We, we hope it's fixed right

[17:08] now. Um, the elevator. The state elevator inspector came in last week and we got

[17:16] the all clear on the elevator, so we're good to go there. Um, and Megan is doing

[17:21] um a, a, a, a yeoman's job. She's doing what we want her to do, so that's phenomenal.

[17:28] I can't praise her enough. Daniel's Building. Um, I know last month when I carry

[17:35] over. I can find my minutes from last month.

[17:43] We had an issue with um. Some rent issues and I know there's some updates on that

[17:48] and I'm not really sure where that's all gonna go. It's in discussion right now,

[17:54] um. I would request, um, I think at the November

[18:02] meeting, we need to discuss, we have one other unit that may be somewhat in arrears,

[18:07] um, that is empty, but we probably need to discuss that next month further as to

[18:12] what to do with that. Uh, and Tyler, we will probably be at some point discussing

[18:17] that with you also, what our options are there. Um

[18:24] Anybody any comments on that? I'm a little, I'm not sure where the mayor is back

[18:29] there. Yeah, well, um, that will be determined after the meeting what, what's what

[18:33] there. So, so I would say we need to table it. Yeah, I think we're gonna, we're gonna

[18:38] know more, but we need to move through the agenda. Would it be advisable to go ahead

[18:42] and table this until November until we get some more concrete details? I would make

[18:47] that motion. We have a motion to table, um. The rest of the Daniel's Building until

[18:54] November. Do I have a second? Uh, we have a motion in a second.

[19:01] So we have a motion to 2 on the floor to defer action on the Daniels Building until

[19:08] November. Monica, yes, um, Ron Delson, Dana Watley, yes, Bob

[19:15] Kingry, yes, and, uh, Mayor Eckstein, do you agree to, I'm gonna abstain since you

[19:21] got 3 abstain. OK, wonderful. All right, Mayor, I will abstain. So it's a 341.

[19:29] 301 301.

[19:33] OK. What comments? Um, Mayor, we'll start with you. You got any

[19:41] comments?

[19:46] No comment at this point, yeah. Dana, I have nothing. We'll, we'll come to share

[19:51] at last. We'll let you, we'll let you be the caboose. How's that, Bob? No, and I

[19:56] have no comments. I wanna thank all you guys. I know the headaches that are involved

[20:00] in this board, and some city boards are easy, some are not, and this one usually

[20:05] is. No. Sherry, do you have any comments? I guess I just wanna close with thanking

[20:12] you for the foresightedness you all had last year to give us a chance at um activating

[20:17] that space beside OB's. Uh, it's been, it's been a, a good Run for the last year

[20:25] and we're going into the holiday season with a lot of momentum. So, thank you. All

[20:30] right, Tyler. I, I have no comments. All righty. Well, we've run through the

[20:37] agenda. Next meeting will be November 12th, 12th. Thank you. I had November. I had

[20:43] the month right. November 12th. OK, and it'll be 2026 for, for all of y'all. So

[20:51] November 12th at 10 o'clock.

[20:55] All righty. With that, I'll accept the motion to adjourn. Thank you for your attendance.

[20:59] Thank you for watching, whoever's watching. Motion. We have a motion to adjourn,

[21:05] so move. Thank you, everybody. Thank you for attending. Tyler, you wanna stick around

[21:08] just a second? Sure.

[21:14] Harry, do you know if they

Redevelopment Commission

Transcript