Redevelopment Commission - Regular Meeting

Oh, I guess it is that time. All right. I'd like to call the meeting to order. Today is March 12th. Yes, it is. 2026. Um, I would obtain or um take a um motion to approve the minutes from February 12th. I'll make a motion to approve the minutes for February 12th, 2026. Second. All right, we have a motion in a second. All those in favor say I. I oppose the same. Motion carries. Thank you. And then um I don't see Lisa.

They're they're coming up here. Okay. Lladam, [laughter] could you mute this time?

Hello. Lisa to talk. I see somebody, but we don't hear anything yet. Is there

Who do you want to talk? Kent. I don't care. Lisa was going to explain. Lisa, you are muted. If you could talk. Muted as well. Can't hear you. Oh, that's why the far right on the mic. It should be able to do that. There we go. All right, Lisa, could you unmute and uh talk to us about the estoppel certificate? Good morning. There we go.

Um it's it's been some time since I've been in front of all of you. Uh so happy 2026. Uh we have with us today this is regarding the 70 connect 2 project and we have with us today to talk about the status of the project the completion and the request uh we have Adam Brderick of Loth and Scott Friselle their council with Craig Devault. Uh so Scott or Adam if you want to talk a little bit about where you are this project in my understanding because I did not work on this original EDA but my understanding is this was an industrial logistics building and the county provided a forgivable loan to get the infrastructure completed water sewer roads uh connection and impact fees that type of thing. So Scott or Adam, if if you can expand on that or let us know uh where you are in the project and why you're requesting uh the estoppel certificate and termination of EDA at this time, then I can speak more to the commission. So

sure, I'll [clears throat] give a quick overview on the project and then Scott can dive a little bit into the estoppel. So uh Lost completed the construction of the building in the spring of 2022. It's uh just shy of a 550,000 square foot industrial logistics building on 350 North. We leased the building um actually while we were under construction to use in Logistics, a national logistics provider that provides services to Amazon for their robotics division um back in 2022 as well. and we took the building to market uh for sale uh at the uh beginning of the year this year and are under contract and are scheduled to close on that sale uh Monday um actually to uh Hillwood uh which is a group headquartered out of Dallas. they've owned in Mount Comfort uh in the past and are actually looking at developing additional property uh as in a joint venture partnership with us to the north of um this building on additional land we control there. but they are buying the building from us and as part of the sale process uh we requested the estoppel from um the county uh essentially stating that we built the building we said we would build and uh we're paying the taxes to forgive the loan and um we're going to sell it to Hillward

and Scott you can explain the legal nature of it that I'll probably screw up

thank you Adam so as Adam mentioned the estoppel certificate is being requested by the purchaser of this property uh pursuant to section 810 of the loan agreement and the estoppel certificate simply confirms the current status of the agreements between the county and 70 connect 2. Um in plain terms it confirms that the loan agreement and the economic development agreement are still in effect that no party is in default and the developer has satisfied its obligations under under those agreements. In addition, since the developer has fulfilled those obligations to develop this project and will no longer own the property, we are requesting the loan agreement and economic development agreement be terminated simply to close out those agreements. And as Lisa mentioned, the background on this project is that the redevelopment commission provided 70 connect 2 with a $932,000 forgivable loan from TIFF on hand. And the loan agreement is typically entered into uh for tax purposes with that incentive. And so at this point since the project has been completed and 70 connect 2 has satisfied its requirements under those agreements uh we're asking for termination of those agreements and then signature on the estavo certificate. And so we're happy to answer any questions at this time.

And let me jump in real quick. Um I've been working with Scott Binky, county attorney on this. The the board of commissioners meets Monday morning at 8:00 a.m. uh to consider these requests. Scott has confirmed for me uh that there is that the county is not aware of any default under either of these agreements. Uh they have no outstanding real estate taxes. Uh the infrastructure has been completed for which the loan was provided. Uh so there really is no reason to continue uh with these agreements. As Scott mentioned in section 810 of the loan agreement, it does the county did agree uh that to the extent it would be required in the future that it would it would provide an estoppel certificate uh with certain uh language within that certificate. And so we're we're asking the RDC to at a minimum, what I would ask is that you authorize uh execution of these by the president in the form uh approved by the board of commissioners. So between now and Monday, working with Scott and the board of commissioners, they may may or may not make changes uh to any of the language in either of these two agreements. Uh but they will be the ultimate arbitur at the end of it. So, uh, we would ask that you authorize the president to execute these certificates in the form approved by the board of commissioners. Um, with that, we'll all take questions.

Yeah, I um that's exactly what I mean. We we wouldn't um um officially act until the commissioners have officially acted. Um

I agree. even even if we deem it s acceptable and everything. Um uh sounds like there's a little bit of a time crunch because of the purchase of the property and all that kind of stuff, but um um and it's just the um release of the EDA from the property is that what and then the um the forgivable loan if all of the um u requirements of that have been met and it's not a new forgivable loan. Correct. It would just be acknowledging that the project for which the forgivable loan was provided has been completed. Okay.

And therefore the loan is forgiven. Okay. And the EDA is terminated so that they can go through with a sale. Um I will also let you know that in section 810 of the loan agreement, uh it does say unless the um unless the party is in default, which we've already confirmed that they are not. Okay. If we don't take action, the estoppel certificate basically is deemed to be satisfactory to both the RDC and the county. Now, that is not the result that the company would want because their purchaser is asking for an actual acknowledgement by the county and the RDC, right?

So, they would prefer that you authorize it and and execute it uh after the BOC approves it. Um but it would go into effect unless we were to provide them with notice of default which we cannot. So

okay. Um is there any questions from you guys on the um on the thing the EDAs are um we'll let the commissioners decide. I don't know how the original scenario was set up with the EDAs, if a building was sold or not. I don't think that was covered the time that we created the EDAs. If the building was sold, whether the EDAs just automatically go with the building or and then the the funds that the EDA creates, Lisa, is that then um that percentage of those tax dollars moved into the regular tax rate of the business?

Yeah. Kent, in this in this particular instance, and Scott, please uh correct me if I'm wrong, uh, but we we dove into this, and in this particular EDA, there are no EDA payments separate and apart from normal real estate taxes. So, that's one of the reasons, you know, Scott Binky confirmed that there are no outstanding real estate taxes, but there was no u there were no EDA payments contemplated in this economic development agreement. So there's nothing to change from that perspective. Okay. Uh if this is terminated.

Okay. Well, um I would entertain a motion that you would allow the president me to sign the e the stoppple certificate. Um if um the commissioners after the commissioners execute the signature of their uh blessing on the certificate. Okay.

Um, I make a motion that we um authorize the um president of the RDC to um accept this and all of you sign it and all of us approve it. Um but not to be signed until after the commissioners have approved and signed. Is that good? That's fine. Second. Okay. We have a motion and a second. Any other verbiage, Lisa, that needs to be in that motion? Um, I would also ask, or you can do a separate motion, but I would also ask that that motion contain execution of the termination of the EDA agreement. Okay.

Was that in your motion? Again, approved by once approved by the board of commissioners and in the form approved by the board of commissioners. again, if they make changes to language, uh, we want to make sure you're okay with that as long as they've okay it can sign it. Okay. Okay. Yeah. So, this is also Can I make it part of the same motion, Lisa? I think so. Yes. Okay. Absolutely. Okay. And I will just add to that motion that um authoriz execution. How do you want that of the termination execution of the termination of the EDA?

Second. I have a motion and a second. Uh, all those in favor say I. I oppose the same. And that motion passes. And is there any anything else on that that that wasn't covered? You said something about if there were changes if there were changes to the certificate.

Yeah. I just um there are there are some there are items in the estoppel certificate that go uh a step beyond what's absolutely required in the loan agreement but not but they're not out of line with respect to selling the property. I just want to make sure if the commissioners and Scott Binky uh have an issue with any of the language in the estoppel certificate and want to delete something um or change the verbiage of a line or two that that's still okay with the redevelopment commission as long as the BOC as long as the board of commissioners execute those documents.

Okay. Um, do you want to um have one more motion to allow the um to um us to go ahead and approve it certificate if the board of commission as long as they accept the the final form? Okay. You know what I'm saying? I [clears throat] do. So, and and I also add to that motion that um we approve that um except for waiting on the commissioners to approve it and also um what all did you want? Well, if they you could say with any you can say with any changes that the board of commissioners deem necessary. Okay. Any changes that the board of commissioners would accept they feel is necessary.

Right. Perfect. Second. All right. a motion, a second for that. All those in favor say I. I oppose the same. I think we got it all covered. Thank you, dear. I appreciate. Perfect. Yeah. Thank you all. Thank you, Scott or Adam. Anything additional that you need at this point? No. Thank you for the time help. Thank you very much. Thank you everyone. Can they disclose who they're selling the building to?

Yes. Uh it's a company called Hillwood out of Dallas. It's uh they've owned in Mount Comfort in the past and we are so WTH controls about 100 uh well plus or minus 200 acres to the north of County Road 350 next to 70 connect 3

which [clears throat] is the million square foot building we built in uh we finished that in December of 22. We are selling the million square foot. We're under contract to sell the million square foot building to Amazon. And then we are also talking to Hillwood about doing a JV to develop further. So it' be just to the north of the Okay. building we're discussing the estle, but they they've owned the market before um and and are interested in developing with us as well. Right. Well, we we knew Amazon was acquiring more. We just didn't know exactly which buildings. But Yep. Thank you. Thank you everyone. Thank you gentlemen. Thank you. Thank you.

Bye. Okay, so Gary, we're we're up to your up to date. Were you pleased with everything that just happened? Any things that you know of that we didn't know of? Oh, I don't know of any things I don't know of. All right. Well, Bill always comes up with something I don't know of. [laughter] We got quite a [clears throat] bit of news. Let me see if I can share coming. Is it? Are you plugged in? I am plugged.

Hold on. I just need to All right. I always love hearing Lisa talk about legal stuff. I always learn something new every day. Um, spending's okay. Last big push will be Amplify. We'll get our last payment in June, which is about the time the new Amplified payments will come on board. As of now, I'm looking at we're going to spend another 4.5ish million past the bond. Um, [clears throat] that should wrap up. I spoke I went out on site. Everything is on schedule. Everything is on budget. uh with the exception we did have to buy some additional bus cables which were really like big expensive welding extension cables which were fantastically expensive thanks to the price of copper but we've gotten through that. We had

amazing budget for these things to pop up but the bottom line is it is on schedule. But we should have uh those people should be able to have their students who have signed up in there this fall so we can all breathe a sigh of relief. That was a good public um we secured a donation from Hanok Economic Development. The amplified did um and the naming rights is going really well. Um and so I think operationally everything is

if they got the operations under control are under control and they're right now uh finishing up um who's going to you know maintain the building cleaning things like that you know and all those getting those contracts started and all that kind of stuff. But um when the project first started, operation is what is what the unknown is always. You're going to have enough money to operate the building once it's open. You can you can define how much money it's going to cost to to build the building, but you can't define and it it sounds like the budget um it looks like the amount of money being raised for operation dollars, not just building or equipment dollars is um is going to be sufficient uh for the operation uh of the building. For instance,

that's good because the council and commission's been pretty clear. They're cool with the capital stuff. They are to keep dumping money, not participating in the operational. We're we're wiping our hands of it when right and they're no way near done um receiving funds from outside entities. Um they've asked um Congressman Shrief um he has an application process. They've asked for a grant from him. They made the first round through those grants been indicated a certain amount of money they might be able to receive and it's substantial. So good. Uh Gary, you said uh that uh we have students signed up from the schools. This is third party information. This is me just hearing from other people. Okay. Right.

Well, I was going to ask you if you knew if every single school in the county has well, you know, the schools have signed up, you know. Well, yeah. These are secondary conversations after meetings on the capital talking to the people on the um

they say they're of course there was,086 inquiries for 450 positions. [laughter] So, there's more than double the amount of children interested. Um, the only school that has some individuals that they probably won't that they'll finish their certificates they're currently on, maybe seniors and stuff, is Eastern. Eastern has uh some children under certification now in Newcastle. And um they've requested that those children still be able to finish their certification. They've already started in their school in Newcastle, but I think the other schools have just said no, the programs are all going to drop in.

I'll be nervous till the first day and then when they do the first day, we'll find everything is not working. It'll probably be a month or two. This is how construction works. There'll be stuff that's wrong and we'll get stuff fixed and so the end of May is the [clears throat] construction deadline or dead I May 21st or something like that. Then then takeover is June 19th. Um, and then first day of school is August 6th. Yep. From what I understand. But things are going to pop up. [laughter] It is a $46 million building. There's going to be a toilet that doesn't flush, a light that doesn't come on. These things will be That's what I was thinking of. That's

the stuff is going to happen. We will adjust and get it completed. We have buffer to deal with. I plan on those things in the projects. Anybody who doesn't is

foolish. We need to plan for those things. So, no. All right. We've got 300 under constru 300 North Construction. Even though I can't spell it. Look at that. Um, all right. Is this going to be misspelled? Um, it is coming up soon. We have a pre-construction meeting next month. Right. The first week of the next month. It's pretty wet right now. They're going to build anything. You may notice that utilities are already active out there. Um, nothing's really disrupting traffic at this point. when they do the roundabout at Seven West and three North, that will be a closure for a short period of time. Um, so it's similar to the other places we out there. There'll be a little bit of pain when we close it. Um, and then it'll be a 2year project. We'll build a little bit this year and

is all of the what you're doing west of Six West, correct? Okay. Well, not all of it. We're doing other work, too, but that's the big project. Okay.

Part of separate projects. [clears throat] Um, side road repairs, which I just talked about. We've had flooding and stuff out there. You'll see some bills come in for stone and asphalt and things as we fix roads and stuff out there. The big semis go around, they break stuff, we fix it. We're handling that with organic operations, so there's not much labor involved in it, but we do pay for the materials. Um, we didn't get beat up too bad. Um, the fire department and the police are pretty good about calling us or the locals will call. I can always count on the public if there's a hole, someone will call me. They're very great, very generous with their time to call me about that. So, um, it's it's spring, it's pothole season. Um, but we're fixing things. It's actually not too bad out there. Um, of course, when we do the detour, I'm sure it'll be rough if we get into the winter with that, but we'll do our best. Um, like I said before, we'll start paying Amplify in June. We'll get our last distribution in June. I am watching our cash. It is, as we predicted, tight. So, it has moved into the yellow region, which is mean I'll look at it monthly. Um, just pull it up. So, Cindy and I are keeping eyes on it. Um, we'll let you know if it gets really tight. Then we'll let you know if we need to hit the brakes on some stuff. We have places that we can hit the brakes. So, we have relief valves, but uh, basically you're going to be pulling program from people if we're doing that. So, we're not anywhere near that, but we are tight. So, when I say tight, we're within the 90% range of overspending. In the year it hits is 2031. So, you won't see the tight now, but we could overspend now and in 2031 we could run out of money. Um, so I'm trying to look that far out. Um, now that said, we received a bunch of grants recently. Those are filtering in. In fact, one may have filtered in recently that I didn't see. So, that's good news. Similar to uh the the fund that just dumped we just dumped two more million in there. Um, we got uh 6 million up in Mccorsville. Soon as we get an interlocal agreement put together, INDOT's going to fund them. So, we're doing we're stretching our money, but we got to wait for that. I can't count that money till we get it.

Yeah. So, well, what we don't do is need um things to drop out of the sky that we haven't foreseen. There will be some we I have a count for that's where the Well, I know, but we know how wrong we are each year, and I plan on we'll be just about as smart of the government. We don't need from other entities of the government to come in and say, "Oh, we need to we need the redevelopment commission to pay for this now."

Well, we we have a program and um we're being responsible. I think this board is being responsible as is the council um with the spending. There are significant pressures. We had a big meeting yesterday. Significant pressures on every government entity throughout the county based on Senate Bill One.

Yeah. Um, but that's a deeper conversation the council and the commissioners need to have way outside of this meeting. So, um, McCordsville, I got a couple questions for you about when we start paying you for some things. Um, update on these um, the three projects that we've got listed right there. Um, the Broadway 600 West intersection. Um it's listed at the 3.1 million. I think that's um a conservative number. I think it'll be below that. Um and then also uh um uh we're bidding that um here um in the next month or two. Um they're trying to wrap up um a couple things on plans. Uh so that the construction for that will be here over um this summer and all of next year. Um, so you could almost say twothirds of that will end up being pushed into 27. Um, the 750 roundabout is um on track. We're uh doing right away um uh right now. Uh the um Auroraway roundabout. I was going to tell you that uh we were um swapping that around with um the 900 North roundabout that Gary just mentioned. Uh we did a um application that was uh um successful. Thank you very much

the application. Um

uh but uh uh uh very happy that we were able to um be successful in that application and we'll work with um um Gary's department on the uh moving that project forward. Uh my originally intent um when we submitted our like list of projects was to have their roar away but uh uh we were looking at this application basically flipping um 900 north in for Aurora Way. Um I don't know that uh um uh the Auroraway is just going to slide back. We may end up uh moving that forward. Uh my intent was because we weren't getting a lot of um uh drive or need for that project, but uh um uh I know there's some kicking of tires going on in that area and that may uh drive that project. So um that's out of my hands. That's kind of um uh you know what comes forth from development that we'll we'll kick that through. Um I'll come back to the RDC if we want to have a discussion about um funding for that project. Um or it will be McCordsville. So it'll be uh we'll move forward with that um as it materializes. Um I think that's everything. Do you have any questions on on where McCordsville's at?

No. Um, I'm assuming you guys are in touch with in for future years too with um with uh Congressman Shreve's office. Uh he's in transportation. Yeah. And

um he did uh uh um uh we've got um some um money from his office um for the underpass um kind of uh making some progress on the design of that. Um and then we've also discussed other projects as well. Um there's um kind of a a push from uh um our council to look also at uh 500 West. Um we've had some projects um in that area and kind of brought our focus onto the 500 West and Broadway um intersection. That and the 400 um and and Broadway intersection. Those are both uh

um very difficult um intersections with the rail crossing right there. So um one of the discussion points that we're having right now is actually building a bridge over at 500 West. So it's conceptual at this point. Um uh the town uh um has uh some preliminary um engineering to to get a budget for what a cost would be if they if that project will materialize or not. Uh but uh um council is uh um my town council is um very interested in that project simply because the underpass um the cost for that is you know upward of you know $80 million for that. And

isn't there a rail issue at Five West? Isn't there a what a rail issue? Yes. I mean, you think that maybe the you might be able to get more federal or get, you know, the leg uh congressmen involved in being able to solve that rail issue to help with the solve of the whole problem. We we um did submit um uh on that and um have been in conversations with Congressman Shrie. Yeah. So, that is uh some of the discussions on that. Um, uh, there's lots of, uh, moving parts right now on road projects. And

would that would that be a realignment or It would be, um, uh, a realignment of the 500 West log of all the uh, 90° curves in there and everything. It makes Yeah. It makes a 90° turn and then makes another, you know, 45 degree turn and it take out all those houses there, too. Yes. Um if we u if that project gets traction it would basically have um the 500 west alignment continue straight. There's some uh um yeah that might be too pretty too much that geometry if this is very conceptual very conceptual

and this would require some assistance too this be a cooperative project again

because there's a lot more place to work there than there is on 600. Yeah, precisely. The reason why it um some of that interest uh got [clears throat] going was because uh um there's uh some um development looking at properties in there and if we wanted to um kind of hold off um and and kind of uh um acquire property to make that project possible, we needed to start talking about it sooner. So um uh before we had development that would essentially block that project from ever moving forward.

It'd be more like that. It remove all that geometry and kind of make two curves there between there'd be a curve here and a curve here is this way this is Mark's thing but that's the way it was pres that would fix a lot of issues there. It would also cost $11 million. So yes, but that's not 80. It's not it's not 80. That's actually that that's said that's a extremely cheaper [clears throat] than the the other alternative. Is there any um uh is there any fatalities? Um I know we've had fatalities in the past on those roads that intersect right there next to the rail. There have been fatalities at those at grade crossings. Okay. There has been at the 400. I'm not positive on the 500. Where' the fireman go? There's a lady, an older lady got killed and the fireman got killed.

I know there was some west of McCordsville, too. I think there's been fatalities there. It's something that we hear every couple years or so. Yes. So, okay. So, Mark, I from what I heard important to me is I could expect the majority of this three and you're paying the other 50% or whatever, whatever. And uh we should expect that to probably start playing out towards the end of this year and into next. Yeah, we'll have some draws this year and then 750, which is fine. I've got a plan for this year. 7 this 750 roundabout. You say that you're kind of transposing that with No, not the 750. The Aurora Way. You're kind of transposing this with the other one. Yeah. With 900 North.

The 900 North one. You're going to see payments come through here, but Mccorsville is going to reimburse us for those. So, we're going to hold the bag for a minute on those, but they're going to they're handling the local match on that. Yeah. Um Okay, that works. Yep. Thank you. Thank you.

And Mark, you did do a good job assembling that. you and Miss Shidler worked together and that was a good project and it was a uh it's a singular type of project. This is a pretty good cooperation between the county and the town. In fact, I don't I haven't seen a project like it. Uh Noblesville's had something close. So, this is unique and it's good because it's allowed Mccorsville to save $6 million. Um if this project is successful, which I'm sure it will be, um we might consider talk I'll talk to the commissioner and council about that with maybe we expand this to some extent to the other parts the other municipalities. Now we I don't want the county to pay for anything, but if we can get them an 80% grant versus 50 marksman getting 50%.

Greenfield's got nothing. They're they're paying out of their RDC 100% for the two roundabouts they got in there. if we can help them get because we can use the county's reputation to help them secure 80% it helps the town's monies go a lot further. So we're grateful Mccorsville teaming up with us on this. We're nervous and you're nervous because it's new but I don't see any reason between Mark and I two professional engineers we can't get this completed. No, I'm I'm excited about the project. It's benefit to McCordsville. Yeah. Okay. Great to partner. We all pay state and federal taxes. Why not bring it back here and spend it here? Absolutely.

All right. But this is a new one. I mean, INDOT's nervous about it, too. So, we're trying something new. Um, I believe that's all I have for my items. I believe now we Mickey. All right, we're ready for the um u theou for the Buck Creek Township Fire Department. We will keep muting.

I can fix that. If the if you guys don't know, which I'm assuming you do, um we have an agreement with the Buck Creek Township Fire Department. Um it's three years old and it this is the third year, so we need to have another agreement with them for at least the next three years or whatever. And and um I think I don't know you this is the first time you spoke on record. We came to the RDC meet. So, we've been we went to the commissioners meeting initially. Yes. Uh they said that they supported us coming to you. So, we came last month.

Uh you guys had asked us to get an official motion from the commissioners to approve the revised version of theou. And so, based off of input from Gary Pool, um we put in the specific number, a minimum of the specific numbers for each of the next three years. Um along with the parking lot project that we're looking that is already programmed into the budget for the RDC. Um, we went back to per your guys' request, went back to the commissioners, presented it to them. They made a motion uh for an approval um for us to bring it back to have you guys look to execute. And we changed a little bit of the verbiage on this one. A couple things that we did again is we built it so that it had the increases that Gary Pool had already built in uh the program for your budget. The second thing that we did is original was specific to staffing and that was the only thing that was listed for. Um, this one's been opened up a little bit for staffing and operational. And the reason that we did that is simply because I don't want to hang or I don't want to put um jobs specifically on this. Uh, we are looking at hiring six uh three that we had budgeted already for this year and then with the execution of this and another three because we anticipate the growth of our budget naturally to be able to offset that difference.

No worries. No, I'm I'm just hoping that um we're still here for the execution of the next one. Would love that. So, and that will be the I mean the goal will always be to come back and keep working this because right and I know one of your biggest concerns was a a sustainability of it and you know one of the things that we did is we programmed our budget so that with the anticipation of the end of the first that we were set and so we actually started executing some of our capital plan and were able to do so successfully because of funds that were made available. So,

well, and we're we're still going down the path of there is never going to be anything additional brought to that area. And that's how we that's how we can because that's all we know. We don't know what we don't know. But as new things come to the to that area, u billion dollar projects come to that area, it'll it'll give us all new We have to change everything again. Absolutely. But but we don't know what we don't know. So right now we're just going down the path. But I'm I'm almost certain that that that that place is not going to stay stagnant over the next 5 years.

Well, and I think one of the I think one of the benefits of the relationship that we established with both you, the ATDC, the commissioners, and the council is the fact that now we're being included in conversations. Um we've been included in a couple early conversations with some potential developers. And I think that that is a fabulous thing because it gives us an opportunity to um present opportunities for them to be able to support the community as they come in.

Yeah, we we've come a long way with the HDC ourselves. We've been invited to some executive meetings and stuff uh because um it is there is a problem with with large companies can't reveal who they are and if it come to the government then that's public knowledge. So there is a problem with that scenario and so uh but and and and it's mainly us just not liking the idea that we don't know who we're working with uh until the very last minute you have to vote and that's not but um we have um we have come a long way with the HDC and um I I'm the next couple years that I'm on there I'm on the board here it's going to be a much more pleasant situation. We'll learn. We We'll have much more educated I'll have a much more educated vote when I vote on stuff. That's cool.

We're being represented properly. Yeah. Yeah. Considered and so that's that gives us, you know, we don't have to be involved in those conversations, right? Brings up the issues. Yeah. And I think more and more we're getting you guys involved more with individual tenants in those buildings, too, because that relationship is huge. Yep. especially um as the tenants in those buildings create additional pressures on us.

Well, on bringing in I mean having a fire marshall has been helpful because we're getting early on some of those as well. And then we're also as we've talked about before, we're working with businesses outside of you know, we've been working with Walmart and a couple a couple small grants that have helped. Uh we're getting ready to engage with Amazon. Uh we did a favor for them and loaning them some equipment to do a CPR class. So, I'm using that as an end to have a conversation with them. Um, and then starting to engage some of the other businesses as well to see how they can help. Well, we just learned who is purchasing the the building. Uh, I knew Amazon was expanding another million square foot building to their scenario, but I didn't know which building it was going to be. Yeah, they've got the 1.1 million that they picked up over off of Buck Creek Road.

So, this other million is um will engage the conversation even further. That's the fourth building. Yeah. Which is is fine. I mean, they're a good partner. We just got to stay active with them. Try to make, you know, as good relationship as possible. Yeah. I think it's really important. They need to uh interact with you because it affects you so much and they, you know, I think you can drive that home to them. They probably don't realize how much it does with the fire departments.

Well, and hasn't the amount of problems that we started out with the original building uh kind of come full circle? I know we were getting calls for people fighting in the parking lots and everything, you know what I mean? [laughter] And I think maybe um after education that Brad can provide Amazon and you guys, I think maybe some of those things can so we don't have to spend so much time. And we did the within the first year we had 80 runs to the Amazon one building. Yeah. And when I brought that to to their attention in a joint training that we were doing, they were very surprised that that was the case. Uh the run volume started dropping off and we're starting to trickle back up. So, we'll revisit that conversation with those statistics as well.

Yeah. And your information is great because it's like every other business, you know, people come and go and the last people don't know what happened and that way you can always keep them up. Yeah, absolutely. So, Gary, theou um you reviewed it. It's in the budget. Everything is fine. Um any reason why we shouldn't um I should obtain a motion to accept theou And then the commissioners have already signed the signed or they're waiting on they approved the sign. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. I think I sent that. Um yeah, well I' I'd um

they don't sign accept an motion. Yeah, they don't. I'd accept a motion to approve theou with the Buck Creek Township Fire Department for the next three years as written. want to do that. [laughter] [clears throat] I move to approve the MOU with Buck Creek Township uh Fire Department uh as presented. Second. All right. Super. So, um I have a motion accepted and a second to approve theou. Any further discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor say I. I oppose the same. Thank you everybody. Thank you very much. Do the cartwheel. Yeah. [laughter] Thank you.

Thank you very much. Like I said, I'm hope I'm still here when you guys when we do this again. And see the

activities really ramped up. You know, I'm hoping you guys I'm out there quite a bit, but I'm at the school. I'm so I'm hoping you guys are active in what's happening in the school. We're going to take control of that thing in just a couple months. We've not been engaged other than from a fire marshall perspective. Okay. Think the school is established and operational. Okay. Getting in there. So that for a couple different reasons. One is that we're looking at where a third station at some point would go. Okay.

And there'll be some training opportunities. Just let me know what your timeline is. Now that we know what our timeline is, the construction company leaves the 20 I think the 21st of May or around then. Then we get total control of the building the 19th and then and then August 6th is the I think the first day of school. So just let us let me know or let uh Sam or [clears throat] Stan or anybody know. And uh um anything you need, anything you want to learn, anything you want to tour, anything in everybody's best interest. Absolutely. Absolutely.

We're also hiring a division of training chief and so we'll get them coordinated with the school as well. [clears throat] There'll be some opportunities that'll be bene. We're getting all kinds of um requests and new tenants and uh the National Guard I think has approached us and things like that. So, it's it's um it's starting to escalate in the positive right now. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Y and thank you for the information that you sent for uh Senate Bill 270. I appreciated that. Thank you. So, we have the um minutes to approve or u invoices to approve.

Um I think that's the last thing cuz I'm trying to stay on schedule. I'm sure they got something else they got to do in this. It's about 10 minutes. There's nothing really crazy on there. It was a mostly design. It'll start picking up heavy once we start building 300 North. Um, and probably once it stops raining, we'll have road repairs, but nothing you haven't seen the years before. Typical spring. So, what I did would entertain a motion to approve the invoices for $71,173.72. So moved. Second. Have a motion and a second to approve the invoices as presented. All those in favor say I.

I. Oppose. the same. And that is Thank you. That is taken care of. Um, is this the copy that they want me to sign for theou or do you have something else? No, if you'll sign that one and wants an original, so if you'll sign this one, too. Okay. Um, any other business, Gary?

Uh, no, just information. Amplify is making some dispersements. Obviously, we're going to run out of bond money in June and we'll transfer over. Other than that, after this, if you're interested, Ann and I, the a lot of the other counties and even the states interested in how we're doing all our financing out here involves this group, the commissioners and stuff. We're going to practice that uh um presentation. If you want to be really bored, we're going to practice it here in a few minutes, but it's a kind of an interesting uh presentation we put together. So, but yeah, nothing else. I would entertain a motion to adjurnn. I'll make that motion that we adjourn. Second. All those in favor I.