About this meeting
- Government Body
- Redevelopment Commission
- Meeting Type
- Redevelopment Commission
- Location
- Hancock County, IN
- Meeting Date
- April 9, 2026
Transcript
61 sections (from 309 segments)
uh for April 9th for the Hanok County Redevelopment Commission. The U first thing on the agenda, good morning, young lady, is to approve the minutes of March 12th. It says there was a correction that was made in the total amount of invoices. Economic property was removed for payment at that meeting. That is not true. So, um,
and I hate to say anything about a typo, but as we all do them, um, in the first paragraph it says the RDA board, and I think it's RDC board, but just fix that little typo. I didn't catch that either. So, um, with that said, um, with the correction for the typo and the, um, the echop property being removed for payment out of the, um, things, I would entertain a motion to approve the minutes. So moved. Second. All right, we have a motion, second. All those in favor say I. I. I. Oppose the same. And I abstain. Abstain because I was absent. I was absent, too.
Yeah. But we still have to have a a vote for a So you can still vote on I vote yes. They look good. Yep. That's fine. Um all right, Mr. Pool. All right. Dive us into the exciting week. Yes.
Um there was a TIFF management report. Those on the um uh council saw that yesterday. The council was able to review it yesterday. I didn't hear any exceptions to it. Um the I believe this board needs to approve that the it's basically the budget that you approved last June is what the expenses are this year. Remember the state and the I've already explained this once to the council. The state and our entity are on different fiscal years.
But this is a required reporting basically stating what we intend to spend money on. Um, so Baker Tilly took our allocations, our appropriations, put it in the appropriate report format for the different funds, and that has to be submitted through Gateway through the auditor's office um, to the state to make sure that we're not spending money on operational expenses because they'll jerk our money if we do that. Um, but now we're allowed to though, not for education. Oh, not for education. Oh, okay. Aim directly. I'm just let you know I'm not being flippant with it. There's a legitimate risk there. A legitimate risk to our But anyway, that's that's another topic conversation, right?
So, I need I need I need you to Did Did you put that in there? You I see it. Yes. Yeah. You did you did make the paper. This was in the paper this morning. Was it? Yeah. Really? The park was too, Tiff Man. I'm like a D-listister celebrity. I am. You are, Gary. We've all known it, but now they're just finding out. So, I need you to uh to say that you are you approve the auditor. We reviewed it and we approved it and yeah um
it it um it this is years ago we didn't have this. It wasn't a requirement. We didn't know exactly what the income was coming and things like that. And we base our budget off of this and it's it's as accurate as we can humanly be positive. I'm I'm hoping at this point it it displays our intents on what we're going to spend money on to the state. Yeah. So, um with that said, I would entertain a motion uh to uh prove that we have reviewed it and approve the um um the TIFF management report. Okay. I'll I'll make that I'm sorry, Mary. Go ahead.
That's fine. Oh, I'll make the motion as Kent just said and Mary and Robin will second it. All those in favor say I. I oppose the same. Very good. Yeah, that's I said years ago we go, well, how much money is it going to make this year? Well, no one knows. Yeah. Or how much where is it? No one knows. And so I was like, we know now. Okay. On the screen and on the piece of paper I sat in front of you, it's colorized a little bigger than what's on your sheet. We're going to add I'm going to ask you to allow us to add um some parcels to our tiff areas.
When we did these tiff areas, a lot of it was done defensively to prevent an ID from being dropped in our county. So, we didn't have like Lebanon gets $1.8 million, maybe close to $2 million for their economic development area. We get 18. That's because ours is run by us and theirs is run by the state. Um, so we did that and it was done by amateurs myself. Uh, and I missed some parcels in there. Specifically, one of these parcels. Easy there, Randy. I know I'm an amateur. We're rocking your pronunciation. Oh, the
gallery there is having a good time. Anyway, the um one part a couple of these parcels are vulnerable should the state change legislation and basically uh make um agricultural land wild card or some of it's already zoned industrial that they could if a data center would want to build there there' be no way the county would have a say in it. So this tiff district would at least allow you the county the taxpayer to capture the increment from that. So at least we could get the money out of it if somebody would build there. Right.
Um so that is what this is. Uh with your permission I will now this will cause some legal fees. I will send this to Lisa Lee and she will add these parcels to our tiff area. Right. But the the RDC still can't stop you can't stop them. But at least you'll get the tax collection out of them. Okay. All right. Yeah, let's let's clean this up. Okay. So, I would need a motion to allow the county engineer to approach Lisa Lee to have her initiate the uh TIFF ad of these parcels that are listed there. And there's a map. It's surrounded in red what those parcels are. Yeah.
Well, I will make the motion that um we add to our tiff. Um, we don't have a total of the acreage, do we? No. Just those partial picture. Yeah, it's 554 acres. It's difficult to see. There's like 10 parcels. Yeah. Sorry. There's 554 in the north part and then 117 in the southern part. Right. That we allow Lisa Yeah. that we allow initiate the process. Alisa or Lisa to initiate the process for us.
Second. We have a motion and a second to um to clean up our our tiff areas. All those in favor say I. I oppose the same. And um easily not easily done but easily done here. But and I apologize. I wish I'd added these back when we did it the first time, but I'm sure there'll be it slipped through the cracks. That's me. Isn't this process kind of tenuous? Doesn't it have to go to commissioners? It's going to go through a few things, a few meetings. It's got to come back here probably for some public hearings and yeah, it takes about and stuff. 60 to 90 days depending on when the meetings fall. All right. We'll have to have
I've given Lisa a warning order on it so she's ready. So, all right. Thank you. Uh it is thawing out and the asphalt plants are about ready to open. So you'll see some road repairs going on out there from the use that comes out of the road repair portion of the tiff area. So you'll start seeing some bills for concrete, asphalt, things like that coming. Just FYI. Okay.
And 300 North is underway. Now the l the good thing with that is we've already paid mostly up front. So you won't see bills from the 300 North construction. That'll be covered through the state. So we've already funded our part. They've loaded their 80%. So that big ball of money is just sitting there. So that won't come into here. But you'll see that construction underway, too. You won't see bills for that other than the inspection, but um Amplify will start charging directly for the construction of the project in June is what it looks like. Um it is on schedule. It is within our budget constraints. Um I know you guys are working really hard on the Amplify board to get things going. Um I know there uh we're working on the final agreements. I know IvyTech is still an outlier in getting all that nailed down. So, but everything will be open. Um the building will be complete on time. Um we do have an outlier echoff. You'll see in there. We need permission to pay that in the future. Mr. Echov needs to sign the papers. He wants paid him. I'm like, Mr. Eoff, you got to sign all your papers. Um so hopefully we'll get that. He's got Mr. House is his attorney and we'll run that down. I'm like like Dave, we want to pay you. You do have to sign.
You do have to We do We're the government. You got to sign all the papers. Um it's for an easement.
It's for an easement. It's actually functioning really well and it's actually assisting with Mr. EO's drainage of his fields a great deal. A great deal. So, it's it's been a good deal for him. Um, of note, remember tax collections in TIF areas cannot pay for operational expenses for education. This is important. the state is already kind of anti-tiff area and giving them a gap where they could take a pinch because they could seize our collection to an extent if we violate certain rules. So I'm not being capriccious with the uh
yeah but they can pay for equipment. equipment. Yes. And programs. People know. Programs. Yes. But people know if it pays a person in any way, we are at risk of a SBOA finding which can manifest legislative action against our collection. So just keep that in mind.
Um and just for the minutes, I mean, we I want to make sure we were clear in the beginning. We were always not going to participate. Now, this is always the council and the commissioner's decision and this group as well. Um, we were not planning on participating operational costs at Amplify. I was always saying things. So, just keep in mind now that can change and you guys can change that, but keep a line. You could step on some landmines there. Just be smart about it. Okay, let's move on to other items that might be happening. Just INDOT is surveying the area out there. Obviously, all milestone stuff is still in the way. Um, so that's going to cost INDOT some money, but it's not us. Um, INDOT may ask us to pursue the rightway purchasing when that comes. They've identified our county is better at it than they are. It might, which is a compliment, but also disappointing. I did tell them that if we take on the rightway purchasing, we're going to want our cost of capital back because if we spend $6 million in 2028 versus $6 million in 2031, that $6 million is worth more in 2028 than it is in 2031. So, I said, "We're willing to talk about that, but we are going to want a concession either monetarily or wayfinding or something like that, which I'll leave that up to this board and the elected officials to see what we want to do." I said, "We're open to talking about it. Um, I think we can make it work fiscally, but I say it does cost us more money to pay early. There's a cost of capital." Uh, they are aware of that. They understand what I was saying and, uh, they'll circle back to that. Do
you have an estimate on what that rideway is going to cost? I do not but I think well sorry I do I do believe it would be around $6 million but who knows it depends I imagine it would be latigious with the heritage group so it'll be it'll be a condemnation so um we're good at that and it'll be fine we do several condemnations on every project we do um and it really doesn't matter how expensive your lawyer is it's it's been that law is pretty wrote it's since 1970s in the interstates. It's It's pretty wrote. Um, but I imagine that INDOT's more comfortable with us handling it, strangely enough. I don't know. I think they have an army of lawyers over there, but they're going to I think they're maybe maybe that slows them down. I don't know. Um, what else is there? Mark is busy up there. Um, are we expecting post June the a request for threeome million dollars for the current roundabout? Yeah, it uh it's about to be uh put out to bid.
Excellent. So, but it'll be past June, so it'll be past our collection. Okay. Also, I believe we are good to go on a roundabout at this won't cost this group any money permanently, but the money will be f basically this group would be paying and McCor will be reimbursing a local match, right? So, that they get the match from them. Yeah. And so this will happen um we have a a county council meeting on or sorry a city council meeting on the 14th and hopefully with the signature of the interlocal agreement. I will take that to Kathy Ed McCall. She's already added it to the stip. So she's she's trusting us to get this done.
Um and then they will reinstate the program because it's a little bit it's a little bit odd. It's it's kind of a good story of inter between town and county um cooperation and getting that done. Where's the location you're talking about? It is 900 North and 600 West. Um, and that's a terrible place to enter traffic-wise. And they're having a lot of injury. There's a light there now, but a light helps, but it's still you have plenty of like our light at 300 North and 600 West. I mean, we had three people injured a year. A person died every other year and now there's none. Isn't the fire station right there? Say again. There's a gas station. The fire station right there next to where Leo's is. Yeah. Yeah. Then the monosur, that's correct.
So, do they have to build the roundabout in in any special way to accommodate the fire trucks? Like they're getting a ladder truck. It'll be very similar to how we did the one at the airport. Remember, we built the roundabout the airport where the Buck Creek fire was. It'll be a similar construction scheme as that. So, they'll be having to drive over some rocks sometime, but it'll definitely be big enough for the fire equipment. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Just curious. Similar to the one we have. We have two of them in uh in Sugar Creek Township. We have one at the airport. We got it down. Man, to be frank, it's not so much the firet truck is the buses and tractor trailers cuz though we don't want them to come there, they'll come there. So, they've got to fit in some manner. Um
were you here yesterday for the conversation about the the uh sewer district briefly? Yes. Okay. So, the county is uh working with Ninstar to complete a sewer plant and sewer district for our East TIFF. Yes. Their engineering and and Mr. Burrow's been in contact with me. He goes up. Oh, good. Um there'll be a new sewer plant that'll take care of the little one that's at the school. Where's it at? Is it south of Maxwell or north? North. Six East or Six North and just just near North Star's facility now. Okay. On their side of the road
where that creek is and everything. Yeah. So, they've purchased property I think in there. Um, of course they already have sewers to 700 to that subdivision there. 700 Sappire Springs. Sappire Springs. They don't have sewer though. That's just a force man. There's gravity. There's a gravity. But they're what we're what they're trying to achieve too is to take Maxwell out of the wastewater problem cuz there's no there's no source for Maxwell and there's no you're talking about the housing addition. The housing additions are and they're basically go straight into the tiles. They go straight into the water shed
and stuff like that. So that's kind of the start of the offices, but they're going to be we're going to be seeking funding on how to do all of that. And there's there's some multiple ways to get funding. There's grants that they haven't that they're not counting on yet, but there is wastewater grants or something that that we we should be able to go after also. But um I asked Lisa in the meeting uh to investigate if um if the other tiffs are eligible to participate. It's my belief and you might think differently but it's my belief that um the the mega site will have to have support from the east tiff um when as projects come into the mega site meaning for residential. Um, it's always been the county's council's opinion in tax abatement that anything east of 200 west is residentialbased, not industrialbased. And so, uh, when you get up there towards Mohawk, you're getting into, uh, res additional residential and stuff that will be supported into the into the other tiff. You're getting into areas we don't have sewers or anything like that. And um at the same time the our east tiff that runs along nine will have commercial access to waste water which doesn't have right now and that's and uh also subdivisions and residential stuff that goes up in that area will uh are are not happening now because there isn't um
there there's a lot of state um
IDM and EPA provide a lot of grant money for septic tank elimination. projects and that's what this is. So I would only approve or be part of this if they exhaust every area they can get funds. So they should not you're talking to our grant gentleman there even if we if this county would have to hire another person to help with the grant or something but the whole project is a $20 million project. Okay. And there's going to be funds probably in two or couple we have some economic development funds. We have some tiff funds. we have some grant funds and things like that where we're going to try to achieve that that scenario.
So I I got with Miss Lee and I believe we can make the connection between the tiffs, no pun intended, but I believe their connection can be made. I have spoken with George Pollinsky of Ninstar and those grants that you're speaking about are pertinent and available and I believe he's capable of applying for them. Um Mr. Burrow is also aware of this. Um obviously uh Mr. Shelby reached out to me as well about this. Um, so it's it's really a situation now we're figuring out on the elected side, what is the capital stack? How what does our money sandwich look like to build it?
Well, if we draw a relationship between the east tiff and the tiff at 200, there's other folks that are going to be coming wanting funds. And I think we've seen Green Township Fire. There will be a lot of people coming. So, I just know that we're opening a door here. There will be a lot of people coming in. You can say no to them. But yes, I can also say no to ninear. You can. Yeah. I'm just saying what options you have. If you want that option created, I believe it can be created. Yeah. But um
because that is the only thing that ninstar I don't understand and be a really great question for whoever's chatting with them is they could have very easily put the funds into a gravity system running up nine to service the neighborhood at 709. They chose to do a force man. I've not looked at the engineering of it to that. So, do you get what I'm saying? They they could have started this process and put good money towards a future there and they chose not to. Without looking at the engineering, I wouldn't say that that's true or not true. But without looking at the engineering, I don't know.
Size that force man for that neighborhood only for future. But the they're they're going to take the treatment plant at Eden out and take the treatment plant at Maxwell out and move it into one cuz both of those 75y old treatment plants the point of a tiff jurisdiction is to create more tax revenue for an entity. If more housing and stuff comes in that's more low it more commercial more things like that. What we want to do as we can provide more service county is promote expansion into the areas we have infrastructure.
Okay. So, if we're going to get um continue to get thousands of new homes into our county, we want to have them in areas that we have infrastructure. And that tiff district doesn't have infrastructure right now, but it has everything we need. I would rather see residential housing between Forville Pike and State Road 9 and upstate Road 9. Some of that we have schools, we have fire, we have uh interstate, we have everything. So we, you know, other than that, we don't control where the growth is coming from. And at the same time, what nobody's understanding, we're losing county property to Cumberland. and we're losing county. We're we're struggling to keep Fortville, McCordesville, and everybody else from taking
sure away from us. And I still have a copy of a Ball State a master plan that said that we are going to have uh by like 20 30 something, we're going to have another 10,000 residences between here and Vernon Township. And um they've got to have sewer. Right now it's not even septic tank removal because they don't even have septic tanks. They those houses in Maxwell were just hooked straight to a tile. I get that. Oh, so there's clay sewer there. It's just not discharging correctly.
I've looked for most of my life to find anything that you could pump when they're when they're tanks. Mohawk and Maxwell struggling water qualitywise. Eventually IDM gets involved. You can't sell your house. That's right. And the waterershed is Brandy Wine and Sugar Creek. Okay, that water is going somewhere. Stuff going west of nine is probably going to Sugar Creek. Stuff going east is probably going to Brandy Wine. Your political pressure will manifest when people can't sell their houses because their water quality doesn't pass. I was going to make a comment that we own property at 500 North and 25 West. And um that ditch that you all are talking about that Maxwell empties into, it goes all the way down there. And my husband was raised there. So, and then all the way down and it dumps into Sugar Creek.
Yeah, that is not good. Yeah, the the waterersheds are big. They're not just isolated. Well, there and that the water from coming out of Maxwell and the same way with with uh Charlottesville and you know, it's going somewhere. I get you. I've heard about the project. I'm alert to it. I think all the elected officials are alert to it. I think people are just sorting out how it's going to be paid for, right? And that's what the process is being started. We've asked I' I've asked Lisa to give us the information we need on on what what it's going to how it's going to affect the RDC and the other things in the future. They're talking about uh project completion in 29 or 30. Um so it is going to come up in the next couple years.
There's a lot of stuff that comes with that too. Do you mandate hookup or not? Things like that. There's a lot of little things. A lot of little things. There's a lot of things around. Um they we do have our feet wet with some of the stuff going through Wildwood that they're fixing now. And so but just so everybody knows in the future that's that is going to come some of that's going to come. I'm hoping that the grants help quite a bit and it's not as big an impact. I think it's a positive thing and we ought to do it. I just think that there's other folks that have come to us about relating those two tiff districts.
Well, that might but the the the green township stuff is small. Uh even if we did help them, we're not going to buy them a ladder truck. But the way SB1 is going to be figured, I don't even know if Green Township is going to have a fire department two or three years from now. Because they're talking about doing away with Well, it'll be hard to have all this growth up that way without one. Right. Gotcha. Right. But I have I have nothing else. Well, I know, but the SB1 is saying, "Oh, these townships have to go into this and and these these fire departments have to consolidate it into this." And so, you know, but I still I still say we should encourage the growth along that corridor. It's tiff and
it's math. If you think you can generate more tax money out of what you invest, it's an investment thing. And that's where we should encourage it. And that the only way to encourage it is to put the stuff in for it. I've said enough on that. I'm sorry. No, you're good. So, I'm like a Catholic. As long as we go past an hour, I'm all right. No. So, Um, I don't have anything else.
Okay. Well, we we the Amplify project is I know you're you're you're squawking about the the personnel issues and stuff like that, but um we're getting more and more positive participations from larger and larger companies. It's going to happen. It's going to be all right. It's going to my job is to squawk and make sure you don't step on a land mine, but I'm not in charge of anything. It's okay. So, we're uh we're still on a positive track on that. So,
yeah. Can I ask a question? Mary mentioned this morning about the facilities manager. How are they coming on that? So, the commissioners have are going to ask Amplify if they can help fund a county employee that would be in charge of the maintenance up there. And um um so that's probably um the best way to do it instead of an outside firm and everything. And you know, Stan is the uh is going to be the administrator, but his world is students and curriculum and things like that. Not
Yeah. Um figuring out if the toilet's going to flush today or if the the light need light bulb needs switched and stuff like you know what I'm saying. Is Stan got our IV tech stuff squared away? I don't know.
Yes, please. Yeah. So the other day there was a meeting uh with myself, Mary, Mike Graph from the bank and it was entertained that there's a possibility to use a county employee and it was just uh Bill Spalding, can you go back to your people and see if that can potentially be done? It's not set in stone. Um I talked with Greg Geratas. He said by what they were asking was making this person an employee and benefit amplify would pay that. So they would be employee of the county and name only. Right.
But as of now that was just um put out there. where they want to get a contract employee to try to fill that spot right now to see actually how many hours that person is going to need hours worth of work every day or eight hours worth of work and it may advantageous to have a contract employee do that. Yeah. And they will monitor that for the first six months of their use. Come up with what they want to do and go forward with from there. continue on with contract employee, right? Or this potential for a county employee paid.
One additional thing. So again, Mary is partnership agreements are out for tenants in the building. They're not really out. They've been under review by Scott Binky, our local council, Lisa Lee, our RDC council, and Cam Sterns, the Amplify Board counsel. and they are just about ready uh to have a signature, but what we're going to need from Kent, the president of the RDC signature when they become available. Okay. So, um Bill, not to interrupt, but as you're talking, I'm looking through Cam's latest draft to Lisa and it still is calling at the Hancock County Innovation and Education Corporation. Okay.
It's not listing the RDC as signature. My my question to you is we we we I probably need to just ask Lisa real quick because from our calls it sounded like the RDC needed to sign the agreement. I think the agreements can go out unsigned by the county. I think they should actually because I think I don't think we're going to get no comments back. So, let's send them out. But I think we need to verify with Lisa because right now the signature block final draft back from CAM does not indicate it's the RDC. In my opinion, it's educ I don't know who the innovation education corporation is. Is it the 501c? It's the 501c.
So my request though would be to give the authority for the president to sign if need be. Yes. We don't have to come back. And that's all it is. It goes out. I would entertain a motion uh to allow me to sign the the agreements when all the attorneys have of that we have working for us have agreed that everything's fine. Okay. So moved. Second. All those in favor say I. I oppose the same. Thank you.
And the the maintenance person I think is not unreasonable and I think it's that that it's it's just a a small thing that's dropped out of the sky. We're going to have some of those and we will figure it out and we will I think Amplify um should be responsible. You're right. I don't think it's a someone that has to be there eight hours a day scenario. So, but um um it's all part of the learning process of opening up a new structure and it's not it's not like saying we need another $500,000 piece of equipment that we can't live without. We got a couple of those.
I know. I know. And um I will sign them as soon as as Mary. You were supposed to bring them to me today. We're They're not done with legal yet. I know. I hope the commissioners would keep a a fire under our attorneys. We are. I think they'll be out today. I'm hoping they're out today. Okay. Um our next Amplify board meeting is next Tuesday. That's right. Yeah. So, there'll be a lot of things hopefully by then, too, that that can we can come out and make public. Well, either you're going to sign them. Yeah. Would think I'm going to sign them. I don't know. But we got to get them to the vendors because we got to get This is April. The end is always the hardest part. It'll be all right. Yeah.
The end of every project is always just dramatic. It's fine. Yeah. So far, the only to get these as possible limitations. We're We're going to make it work. Super. Super. We, you know, we did turn down at least one other university. Um, so it's not the end of the road if if in the future we have, you know, somebody backs out of the agreement or something, but we did turn down Vince, but um Okay. Um, uh,
invoices invoices are next. Um, while Gary's still here, he can answer any questions on any of the invoices. These are these are pretty straightforward. Next months, we'll have some more question ones, but I think we're our invo I I'll make the motion to approve the invoices for 1,270,66841.
I second it. 129,000. Yeah, it's the one above. Why is the total down below? I'm on the minutes. No. Oh, she she threw in the my that's a bond payment. So that's confusing. Do the number four line. The the total is total outflow from everything. But the bond payment you're not approving the bond the bond payments coming out on. Oh, your invoice approvals for your stuff. Yeah. Just for stuff you're paying for today. The rest is just FYI. You got bond payments going out, stuff like that. cuz that like I talked about in June, we'll be out of those million dollars that are being paid out of the bond. Those will start falling on you in June.
Right. So, I revised my motion. My motion is to um is to ask for approval of the invoices for $129,24741. It was an awful close number to the other one. Yeah. We've saved some money today. Yeah. So, does the second still stand? Yeah, David. Okay. All those in favor say I. I oppose the same. And the motion has passed. Um I'm trying to think if there's anything else that the RDC is
any other public stuff. No, we're good. that um we're not of course as always being told um the things that are coming across the tables the manufacturing companies and all the lists of people that are but there is um and we need to know that there is a lot of things asking for Hancock County Um, and uh I'm not excited about the whole thing that we don't get to know the stuff. But Randy, how many how how many um inquiries have we had for for stuff that's in our tiff districts in the last month or so that we're going to eventually have to know about? I've had three site visits in the last six weeks and quite frankly the biggest question I was just talking to Bill about they're very excit they're all production facilities
right manufacturing and they're very interested in skills training and and what's they love amplify but they they really want to know what specific programming right we're talking well tech's going to be there and the schools are going to be there yes they're they're actually wanting to know what exact programs we have that. We have that information. Okay. Yes. I would marry them up with Stan, right? Yeah. He's got a Well, we're out we're out campaigning getting money from companies. He This is what he does. I mean, he does. He He's telling them all the programs C3 is doing and and right
a nice presentation last week when we had it's the IvyTech stuff that seems to be in the shadows. Okay. We also have some expandable areas. So if we would get a large company come into the uh you know $100 million project coming into the thing and said we would need we need to help get this here. That happens all the time. You know Amazon did that at at maid. They came in and said can you help us teach people how to fix these machines and we'll donate the machines and you know things like that. So we we have whiteboard areas. Randy, you need to tell them we have 20 thou 20% of the building is available for their programs,
right? Yeah. That's what I said. We we still have we have we have Shell vacant space ready for new programs for folks that want to come in and train specific to the skills they need. Yeah. I know the three prior the major tenants. I know IvyTech is there. Uh HC3 and Hancock Health. Yes. Nope, that's it. Nope, that's that's it right now.
So, yeah, we we we planned on that. We paid for some facil from part of the facility to be finished to the point that it can be used. You know what I'm saying? And so um I I totally expected anybody to come in and put large facilities near us to come and say hey because we've already had Hitachi and all those people say well we got some specific needs you know so so uh had two site visits of properties within the tiff district one that's in the territory you're talking about this morning.
Yep. All right. The only thing that uh we need to know ahead of time if any of them are data center related. So get I know get that information to us as fast as possible. All right. Because we have a committee now though the county has a data senate committee. We have a a representative from the council on it. It's about protecting the county from certain things. RDC have a seat on
I don't know. It's a I don't know who developed it, but it's the whole county. There is there's other but
yeah it it it it's spurred from the fact that we may not have total control over what happens to us. Yeah. Not when there's people that own property that we don't control. Well and there and when you're talking about companies that own that control billions and billions of free cash right. No but all right. It's I make a motion to adjurnn. Second. All those in favor I we are journ. Thank you everybody.
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