Urban Renewal Agency - Regular Meeting

Okay, I'd like to call to order the Eagle Urban Renewal Agency meeting, September 15th, 2026, 9 a.m. Roll call, please.

Agresa? Here. Brakeville? Here. Butler?

Here.

Dietrich? Here. Kwame?

Here.

McComber?

Here.

York? Here.

Okay, we have a quorum. Pledge of Allegiance. We all stand, please.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Okay, is there a motion to approve the agenda or amend it?

So moved.

To approve? Yes. Motion to approve. Is there a second? Second. Motion and a second. All those in favor signify by stating aye.

Aye.

Passes unanimous. Next item is chairman's report. And the first thing I want to report on is we have a new member today, Tom York, who was recently appointed by the city council. And I've known Tom for, I don't know, as long as he's lived here. And congratulate him for getting on the board. And if you wouldn't mind, if the board doesn't mind, tell us a little bit about yourself. The one thing I told the mayor about Tom is I hope he doesn't talk more than I do because I want my time to talk. You have 20 minutes to tell us about yourself.

Thank you very much. Two minutes. Mark and I are both from the East Coast, so we have that. I arrived in Eagle in 2014 I bought a house in the preserve I've enjoyed the culture here very much I met my wife here Madeline and we've been this October we will be married for three years at Present we're expanding our existing home. We're adding significant square footage. So we've been involved in that As far as what I've done in my life, I'm a veteran I Have two graduate degrees both in public administration and planning. I've served on a Planning Commission I've been in the Peace Corps. I Built a house in the forest I could go on, but I think that's probably about enough right now.

Well, great. Welcome. Glad you're on. Other items for me to report on, I think we don't have the angle parking thing on the agenda, right? So I'll report on that. Ashley?

Yep.

So the angle parking project, as you all see, is coming along. There was a delay that if it was completely my project, it would have been a day delay, but Since I have to be kind, since I'm representing the government, the delay took about 10 days. And we worked through it. And what it was was the Wright Brothers construction fellow had redlined the valley gutter, pointing out that in his opinion it wasn't built to ACHD standards. And so we finally got ACHD out there, and the engineer said it was built to their standards. ACHD said it was built to their standards. And that wasn't a problem. But as we were all out there, ACHD did notice that between the valley gutter and about a foot to the asphalt, there was going to be quite a lip. And so the engineer's idea was that it'd be better to have that kind of steeper lip next to the valley gutter because you're kind of going into a valley gutter anyway. But ACSD standard is like a certain present slope for so many feet. So more asphalt later is going to have to be cut back. So we don't have that little lip right there. And that's something that they'll analyze once the valley gutter is done. And then we'll have a change order for some extra asphalt. Not that big a deal. But it's back online. Any questions about it? If you look at the driveway going into the trailer park and see that the sidewalk drops about two feet, that's not the finished product. So wait until we're done. All right. Other items I'll discuss as we get to those agenda items. Treasurer's report.

Do we have any? No, not at this point. Other reports from board members.

And Tom, this is your time if, you know, between meetings you find something that you want to report on or that you've been working on a particular project, you know, you update us on it.

Mr. Chair, I just had a question.

Yes, sir.

Is there any updates on that little parcel on Plaza Drive?

I think that... Did that get... That's back in Todd's.

Okay, it's still there. Okay.

Didn't that get taken care of?

I think it did, but I'm not going to say with absolute certainty.

Yeah, let's ask Todd, but I'm on my own.

I think it did.

Okay, thank you.

We think it did.

I passed by there the other day. I think it's a great location for a hot dog stand or something. I agree, yeah. A cell tower.

We can make some money on that. Okay, reports from the city of Eagle.

We have a city attorney, mayor, and public. We've got three of us here, Eric Ziegenfuss and... Victor Legas and myself. But of course, we have a city council meeting tonight that has a couple of interesting topics on it. But one of them is the shop slash training facility out at Spike Park. So that'll be an interesting discussion. subject to review and go over for a decision um i have my state of the city next monday um at the eagle nass church uh for uh i think it starts at six doors open five or five thirty or around so you probably should have received something in the mail um and uh but anyhow um i have eric has an update for you on survivor things and whatnot so i think i'll pass that on to him and then if the attorney has anything i'm not sure

Good morning. Morning. I have been seeing great progress in that downtown project. They're excited to see that getting done. We had a small little hiccup with that project that I wanted to bring to the board's attention. There was a little bit of a snafu when it came to a location of the horizontal bore that went from the north side, I'm sorry, from the south side of the road to the north side over to the senior center. We got a phone call from CenturyLink Communications saying that the bore had bored through a cluster of fiber optic cable, and that one of the city's fiber optic cables was basically nicked, cut. It's an 864-count fiber that's there, so it's not small. Luckily for us, I guess a good and bad, that fiber at the moment doesn't serve anything other than just dark fiber. So there's no users that are down at the moment or anything. We met with the contractor. We met with Wright Brothers. We met with Dasco Underground. We met with 811. We met with the actual locator, and it just is kind of a thing where everybody is pointing fingers at each other, and, well, it's this two foot from center, and, well, on this side of the sidewalk when we hit this, we're not held liable, and it just kind of went round and round and round. Meeting with DASCO and 811, there was a snafu with the 811 map, and the locator, Basically, the locator located on the south side of the sidewalk and it's two foot from center. And this board was on outside of that two foot, basically, location. The 811 map didn't show fiber on both sides of the sidewalk. It just showed it on one side. So everyone is learning a little bit through this process. The reason, I guess, coming to the board this morning is that we were hoping to discuss with the funding of this project. The first bid that we got for the repair of this 800 count fiber was $23,000. We shopped around a little bit and we found a contractor actually that used to do work here in Eagle, actually is related to a city staff member that does splicing. We got a bid that brought it down to eight. So an $8,000 repair instead of 23. So we've come to the board to see if we can at least discuss, I guess, that $8,000 bill with this construction project or what our thoughts might be if we could split it, cover it, what we can kind of work on. um eric uh so in all the finger pointing cities taking the heat on it that is correct and we have to yes okay yeah i i have met like i said with everybody and i've i've uh i've used all my superpower trying to have someone else you know to do this repair and it all kind of comes back to well it's your fiber it's your it's not on the 811 map was incorrect but when you filed it with the The 811, it only shows one side of the sidewalk, and it keeps coming back around to the city having to repair this.

OK. And the mayor and council? Mayor, you're fine if we split it 50-50? 4,000 apiece?

I think that's the conversation that we originally had, and I think that was in our budget to make that happen.

Yeah. OK. So I'm fine with it. What's the board think? Stuff like this happens.

Mr. Chairman. And Eric, thank you for the information. That'll come with a warranty of that fiber?

Yes, Council. I'm sorry, I can't even read your name. Dietrich. I have a line today, I'm sorry.

That's okay.

Yes, this comes with the testing, I guess the proof reports and everything, and we'll have to pull some slack line out of each side, and then they'll actually have to put a splice box over where this repair is at, So there'll be an additional box that's there, but luckily the city, I guess has some of that, uh, supplies and that, that would, would help with that. And actually they're using some of our own, uh, you know, splicer and those things to try and help with that repair. So that was part of why that cost was so low.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Uh, Tom. I'm fine with that. I would agree with that.

I think the whole board would probably be fine. But before we get discussion from the board, we don't have this on the agenda. So if we put the action item on the next council agenda with, I mean, the board can't commit, but I think you can hear board members, they're all nodding their head. They think it's reasonable, except for Craig.

Mr.

Chair, let me.

Yes, sir.

How much money do we have that's uncommitted, assuming the Jackson House property goes through?

We're almost tapped out, assuming that we commit to the down payment that we're going to make.

Can you give me a rough number in terms of tapped out?

I mean, we may have tens of thousands available, but that gives us not a whole lot of flexibility for this fiscal year.

OK. I think 50-50 would be fair, given the limited resources that are uncommitted.

I appreciate it. Other commentary from board members? If not.

I trust the maps will be updated.

Yes, this was this, uh, uh, chairman that this was kind of a learning experience, different for the downtown area. If, um, the board wasn't aware of when we did the downtown project, the, the things that lie underneath that weren't, uh, we were not aware of. I mean, certain things have conduit that was supposed to be 36 inches under the ground where they were more like six, um, especially at the corner of second state that did there. The excavator locator did a great job of finding all sorts of things. So maps are being updated as we speak, and we're working with every provider trying to get them all on the same page because Sparklight's communication is a little bit different than CenturyLink or Lumen or Fiber 43 or whatever they are now. So that's being worked on.

So then we'll have Ashley put on the agenda for the next meeting, reimbursement of $4,000 and word it correctly and work with Eric and do a resolution.

Yeah, if you can get me the information. No problem. Great, thank you. Thank you very much.

You're welcome. Thanks for your, Eric's been great working with us on this project and the whole board needs to thank him for his assistance. Other reports from the City of Eagle? Nope. Executive report?

The only thing I was just going to mention, just to make you all aware, I'm going to be out the week of the 29th having surgery. So I will be checking emails eventually, but may not be online every day.

Okay. Thank you. Legal counsel report.

Nothing.

Any reports from committees? Any future agenda topics that board members would like to see on the agenda? And if you happen to think of something before the next agenda is done, just contact Ashley or myself. We're pretty open. Public comment. I don't see anybody here from the public, but just in case somebody wants to speak, now's your time, three minutes. Okay. I don't see any there. Consent agenda. We have two items on the consent agenda. Approval of the minutes of the August 18th, 2026 regular meeting. Approval with August 26th financials and notice of bills paid. Is there a motion to approve the agenda?

Mr. Chairman?

Yes, sir.

I wasn't here for the August meeting, so I can't approve of those minutes, but I can item B there, so can we separate them out?

It should be one motion. One motion? Yeah, for a consent. Okay.

All right, then I'll abstain.

Mr. Chair, I'll make a motion to approve the minutes of August 18, 2026 and August regular meeting and August 2026 financial and notice the bills paid.

We have a motion. Do we have a second? Second. Okay, roll call vote. And before we do that, did you get that bill in there for the striping?

Yeah, that's on our agenda for today, but yeah.

Oh, okay. Good job. Roll call vote, please.

Agusa? Aye. Brakebill?

Abstain.

Butler?

Aye.

Dietrich? Aye. Kwame?

Aye.

Macomber?

Aye.

York? Aye.

Motion passes. Sorry, phone was buzzing. Okay, new business. Action item SDN Partners, LLC, request reimbursement. Squires?

Mr. Chairman, members of the board, in your packet is the reimbursement request. If you all recall, this is the mixed use project on Parkinson by Nick Louie. We had both an original agreement and then an amendment number one. So with the amendment number one, they had up to $474,202.22 for reimbursement. Numbers came in a little lower than they anticipated, which is always a good thing. And so they are asking for a total reimbursement of $450,161.24. took time to review the packet before the meeting, you notice they were very thorough in the information that they provided to the board and very methodical in how they did that, which I appreciate greatly. So I am here to recommend that we approve this reimbursement today.

Yeah, so the one comment I have is Nick Louie is the one who puts these letters and detailed documents together. And if you're listening, Nick, he does a good job putting the information together. Anyway, so is there a discussion or a motion on the resolution?

Mr. Chairman, just saying to follow up what you said, but I went by that project a few times, went by it again this morning on my way here. So I don't know what that's going to be.

Mr. Chairman, it's not. It's a private guy has his private car club in there. His wife is doing some of her business out there. And it's sold. I mean, he owns it.

A card club?

Yeah, like a fancy car club. He's checked it outside.

Cards like poker?

No, cars.

Cars. Yeah, sorry, cars.

That's cool, a car club. That's good to know. It's a car club.

Other discussion on this? If not, does somebody want to read the resolution?

Mr. Chair, there we go. Question. If the original agreement was $470,000, $470,000, and they're asking for $450,000, so would that free up about $25,000 of uncommitted funds? To add to the tens of thousands that's uncommitted? Yeah, we're going to need it. Okay. I'd be interested in closely following that as we go down the road here.

Okay, looking for a motion on resolution number 26-031, I believe.

Mr. Chairman, I'll move approval of resolution number 25031 by the board. 26, I think. 26, I'm sorry. I'm a year behind. 26031 by the board of commissioners of the Eagle Urban Renewal Agency. of Eagle, Idaho, a resolution of the Board of Commissioners of Eagle Urban Renewal Agency of Eagle, Idaho, approving the reimbursement request in the amount of $450,161.24 from SDN Developers LLC pursuant to the amended reimbursement agreement between the EURA and participant authorizing the board officers and executive director to take all necessary action required to implement this resolution and providing an effective date.

We have a motion. Is there a second?

Second.

We have a motion and a second. Roll call vote.

Agusa? Aye. Brakebill? Aye. Butler? Aye. Dietrich? Aye. Fahmy? Aye. McComber?

Aye.

York? Aye. Motion passes.

Next item is a discussion and potential action item, purchase and sales agreement.

Mr. Chairman, you skipped item B. Oh, sorry.

For some reason, my glasses are a little out of focus. I recommend not buying glasses at Costco. Item B, action item, letter of intent, Butler, review, discuss, and consider approval of the revised letter of intent with conditions of approval for the Jackson House property as included by City of Eagle. Before we get into that, there was an email sent to the board members from Christopher Hayden, and I'm going to address that. He starts out, Dear Mayor, City Council Members, and URA Commissioners, Please include this email in the public record for the City Council's consideration of the Jackson House letter of intent and for any related EURA action. At the August 18th EURA meeting, Chairman Mark Butler presented and advocated for a concept plan connected to the proposed Jackson House acquisition. and nearby redevelopment he also led the discussion of the proposed purchase price removal of the old park walgreens condition and ura failure future role in controlling or issuing an rfp for the property and surrounding area he says i'm not asserting that chairman butler has a personal financial interest in this transaction the meeting recording does not contain a disclosure of such However, given his role in presenting the concept and leading the proposed acquisition, the public deserves a clear written answer before the City or ERA proceeds. Please provide a public disclosure of any financial, professional, client, ownership, referral, compensation, or business relationship Chairman Butler has or has had that relates to the Jackson House property, the adjacent or nearby properties discussed at the URA meeting, Caleb Roop, which he spelled wrong, his companies or the owners of Rembrandt's or the former Tri-City Meats property, any restaurant parking, townhome, RFP redevelopment, or property transfer concept connected to this area. If any relevant relationship or interest exists, I request that Chairman Butler recuse himself from all discussion, negotiation, deliberation, and votes involving the Jackson House LOI acquisition, future RFP, or related redevelopment. Please also identify the policy or process used by the city and your right to evaluate conflicts or the appearance of conflicts for commissioners and make any relevant disclosures or recusal records available to the public. This request is intended to protect the integrity of the public process, public funds, confidence and decisions involving taxpayer supported agencies and a proposed transaction of 1.6 million. Typically I wouldn't give anybody or him the time on this, but I've known Chris for a long time and I just felt it was worthwhile addressing this. You know I've been involved in all kinds of things with the city for years and I have no financial interest in this. I even point out when I've helped somebody going through a process when I have no interest because I feel guilty about how they're going through the process. So he wants to know about my history of the Jackson House. I've known Sherry Sharp since I first moved here. She's a friend of mine. There's no financial gain there. The adjacent or nearby properties are discussed in the URA meeting. I have no financial interest in any adjacent properties. I'm looking for a piece of property to build another mixed use, another building on like is over by Sturman's. I've been looking for two or three years. This doesn't have anything to do with that. Caleb Roop, I've known for years. My son taught his kids, was teaching his kids Spanish. I've got no financial interest with him, his companies, the owners of Rembrandts, a former Tri-City Meats property owner. Any restaurant, I'll put this on the record. This is what Caleb gave me. He said he was planning, and this I talked about at the last meeting, he was planning on a restaurant and parking and townhomes. The thing that pisses me off is i spent 750 of my own money to do this concept plan i spent hours walking around this town on the striping plan you know how many hours i spent walking around there i spent 130 hours rewriting a sign ordinance for the city i was on council for four years i gave up four hundred thousand dollars of worth of work and to have somebody like this go after people, not only myself, but people that are hardworking people for the community and try to intimidate them. Something has got to stop with regard to this type of thing. I agree that people should disclose their conflicts, but when somebody is agri constantly needling, needling, needling and costing the city, I can guarantee you he's costing the city thousands, if not tens of thousands of dollars in money. for conspiracy theories. I just wanted to get on the record. I have no financial interest in this. I like Christopher Hayden. I just don't like what he's doing. I think it's harmful for the public process and not helpful. So with that, We have the city who acted on the letter of intent, and they added a condition. Tom watched the meeting. There was a bunch of recommended conditions by Elena, who's the historic preservation gal. But ultimately, and Victor was there, I believe, ultimately the only condition the council added was that we have a condition that retains the facade improvements. So with that, I don't know if you want to talk about my diatribe. If you do, you're certainly welcome to. But the matter on the agenda is the letter of intent and looking forward to Commissioner's comments and so forth on that.

Mr. Chair, just for clarification, how do you spell that gentleman's last name?

How do you spell Caleb Rupp's last name?

No, no, the one who wrote you the email.

I think it's H-A-D-D-E-N. Okay, I just want to make sure.

Oh, I said it wrong?

I'm not sure. I've heard it pronounced different ways, so I just want to make sure I was thinking of the same person. All right, thank you.

You're welcome.

Now, Mr.

Chair, when you read his email, he requested a written response to everything that you addressed because this is a public meeting and it goes on record. I do not think... you need to supply a written record. Your verbal comments should suffice that requirement. I agree.

Thank you. There was one, so CJ Cassiopa, who I've known since he was like 16, I've lived here for 30 years, I know a lot of people, doesn't mean there's any financial gain or whatever. But CJ, was and maybe still is part owner of Rembrandts, and he was involved in Tri-City Meats property with Caleb. And I don't know if he's still involved there, but I did have a financial transaction with CJ, and I built that two-story building behind the park. And Biden took office and interest rates went out of the, I was spending $10,000 a month in interest. And I wrote an email to a whole bunch of people. CJ was included saying, I'm in a pinch. I'll sell this for $2 million. He made an offer on it. So that is a financial connection we had. After about a month, he ripped me off for $132,000. I didn't speak with him for two years. I lost $362,000 on that project. And so if anything, I would have an ax to grind against these people versus wanting to help them. But since he's Italian and I'm Italian, we're still friends. So that's the only financial thing I had with anybody over there.

Thank you. Mr. Chair. Yes, sir. I was looking through the real estate purchase agreement. And when we have the city council meeting, it was brought up to also include a facade for the interior staircase, but I'm not seeing it. No.

So what happens at a council meeting is staff members, different people will discuss things. Ultimately, what is acted upon is that which is acted upon by the governing board.

governing body in this case the council and they didn't include any of that correct me if I'm wrong I've read the condition it's just the exterior facade correct and I would agree with that I wouldn't have any I wouldn't agree to any facade restriction on the interior of the building I think whoever ends up with that building should have the right to do whatever they want in on the interior with the exception of the exterior facade requirement. I agree.

Yeah, so for the letter of intent, this is what the city council approved. So even though we had approved kind of the draft because there was this addition to the LOI, we need to approve that today and to finalize that.

Okay, thank you.

Other questions? And we have the city attorney here as well as our attorney.

Mr. Chair, under Section 4 of the letter of intent, It talks about us may negotiate with Sherry Sharp to reduce the size of the encumbered deed restrictions now that the current encumbered deed restrictions cover the entire parcel. Because weren't we talking about splitting it?

Well, first of all, we're buying If we buy this, we're buying two parcels. Correct. Okay. And so the deed restriction covered the western parcel where the house is. And we placed this in here, or I did, just to put the city on notice that we may adjust the line.

Okay.

The purchase isn't contingent upon not adjusting the line. But as we go through the RFP process, we find that the line needs to be adjusted. Number one, we'll have to work with Sherry Sharpe. And number two, I wanted the city to know that we may adjust the line.

That's why it's there. And if Sherry Sharp says, no, I don't want that to occur, how do we handle that?

It doesn't move.

It doesn't move.

No. Then a developer wouldn't be able to encroach development on that. In a sense, there could possibly be some parking. But whatever the developer encroached onto that, they'd have to realize that it could be taken at some point. Right.

And then Section 7, I know we talked about the two payments. I see that with no interest. That's very kind of the city. And we talked about not necessarily a shortage of funds moving forward, but we're down to some minimal amounts here, right?

So what I'm proposing that we do is that we put an initial $600,000 down when we finalize the purchase and sell agreement. Then another $500,000 later this fiscal year when we get probably with our July check. And then another $500,000 with the first payment in fiscal year 28. It's the only way we can do it, guys. I'm so sorry. The only thing that would change that is one, the lawsuit. If that gets settled and we win, then I have another million dollars in the pool that we can work with and we can pay that off early. But right now we're not set to go to trial until June. We're almost a year out for that. Or if, through the RFP process, we sell the Jackson House property or we get money from 35 West 8th Street, our corner property, then that can go towards being able to pay that off early as well, too. But those are just things we just don't know yet. So I have to be really conservative in how we stretch this out. Otherwise, we're going to be in a really painful situation.

Mr. Chair, and that...

Yes, Craig, and then Jerry.

That... That first payment in next fiscal year would be in February? Is that right?

Whenever we actually solidify the purchase and sale agreement, I think we can make that $600,000 at any time.

Sure. And your calculations, you took into account the potential of having to pay out to the fire department?

Yeah, I'm sending, a million dollars is sent aside.

So that was taken into consideration.

Yeah, so that gives us very little to work with. That's unencumbered right now.

Thank you.

Unless one of our applicants drops out and we don't need to move forward, like Sean Nickel, for example.

He insists he's going to move forward.

Yeah, but we have a lot of commitments right now.

Other commentary on the LOI? So I'm going to address a little bit on a less emotional basis. You know, I've been leading this up. Anybody who's watched the meetings can see I've been moving forward with it. And a lot of it's because I have such planning experience and so much experience downtown, and I'm friends with Sherry Sharp, and I'm able to put this stuff together. And I can see how somebody like Christopher Haddon might think, well, the dude's doing it for money. I make money on eminent domain. I make a lot of money on it. I made so much money on eminent domain, I've asked attorneys not to pay me until next year. I don't need more money. We don't spend a lot of money. But people looking in at government always wonder, why is somebody doing this? When I first fell into planning, and I'm going to take my time and go on a little diatribe here. When I first fell into planning, I thought, well, this is cool, city planning. I didn't know anything about it. So I worked at the gas company. And I started going to the APA seminars. I grew up in East Haven, Connecticut. And when I grew up there, it was a lot different. We lived on a little farm. Across the street was a bowling alley. It was a pizza place. You could walk down the street and buy stuff to bank. It was a cool little downtown. It's not that way anymore. I got into planning, and my heart just loved those cool little downtowns. You know, you grew up back east. You remember the cool little downtowns. Not Manhattan, obviously, the little ones. And so I got into planning, and then we live in Las Vegas, and then I studied cities all over the country, and I got a copy of, I get comp plans before I moved anywhere. And I got Eagle's comprehensive plan, and I'm like, holy crap. They're preserving a downtown and they actually have in their comp plan two and five acre lots. Nobody does that. So we came up here to visit. And we drove through town and my first thought was we have to do what we can to protect this downtown. The little four corners was kind of ratty looking, although Sandy and Rick were great people who had the gas station. And I drove through and thought it was a one road downtown. So with my ideas and love for the town, working at ACHD, I draw the grid map, which is now finally 30 years later coming to place, Hill Road. Plaza, do you know ACHD called Butler Avenue? They thought, this is ridiculous, how aggressive this roadway system is. It's all coming together. And there's no money involved in that. There's the love of wanting to do it. I'm almost done. What's going on with URA? Well, I was working with Nancy and everybody else in 2005 when they put URA together. Its goal was to help the Four Corners. I don't wanna do this stuff anymore. I'm hoping by February, I'm not gonna be doing this anymore. I wanna do my own stuff. And so I had this major initiative to finally finish what we started in 2005, which was get the rest of the energy to that downtown and to fix the blighted corner. That's my goal. I live across the street from Tom. I don't have a fancy house. I drive a Subaru. So it's not money related, Chris, wherever you are. Anyway, so I'm done with that.

Mr. Chairman. Yes, sir. When I first came in here, this is my first day. It's going to take time for all of you to get familiar with me, but I am compelled to offer some background that I have with Mr. Haddon. Mr. Haddon lives in my subdivision. I've had numerous interactions with him, mainly online. I got to the point that I realized that it was just a great deal. It was just a great waste of time. Mr Haddon has a talent for putting people on a defensive. He has a motivation to attack those that are in positions of power almost to the point of envy. It's really a sad waste of his talents. He offers nothing constructive as far as problem solving. It's more inquiry. It's more rage sometimes. It's more accusation sometimes. And there's also a lot of inaccuracies. He has an audience. And he thrives on that. And it's really sad. I've reached out to him numerous times with Fig Leaf for friendship. been rejected he was offered opportunities for volunteering to the city he's turned those down he's run for numerous offices and he's has not achieved his goal I hope Christopher finds some satisfaction in his life and he utilizes his talents in a constructive way for the betterment of the community and stop wasting everybody's time That's all I have to say.

I feel like, Tom, I really like the guy.

I don't know. It's like he's, I don't know. I can't say that.

I really like him.

I can't say that. Oh, I like him.

Anyway, so I'm sure we'd all rather get on to other business. So is there a motion? Do we have a resolution for the LOI?

We do. Oh, no, we don't. We don't need one for the LOI.

Okay. Is there a motion to... I'd approve the LOI so that we've already got the mayor who signed it. So if there's a motion and approval, I'll sign it.

Yeah, Mr. Chairman, I'll make a motion to approve resolution number 26-032 by the board.

Mr. Chairman, Commissioner Kwame, we're on item B. There is no resolution that is needed.

Item B? B. Okay.

With the letter of intent.

It gets confusing with the resolutions. Sorry. According to her, we just need a motion.

Discuss, consider approval of the revised letter of intent. Yeah. So it would just be a motion to approve the revised letter of intent, if you'd like.

All right. Mr.

Chair, I will make a motion to approve the revised letter of intent.

And probably needs to say, and instruct the director to sign it. And instruct the director to sign it. Am I director?

The chairman. Both of us sign it.

OK. And to direct the director and chairman to sign the letter of intent. TODD BANDUCCI.

WE HAVE A MOTION. IS THERE A SECOND?

SECOND.

WE HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND. ROLL CALL VOTE, PLEASE.

AGGRESA. AYE. BRAKEVILLE. AYE. BUTLER. AYE. DETRICK. AYE. CUOMI.

AYE.

MCCOMBURN. AYE. YORK. AYE.

Okay, moving on to item C, discussion and potential action item, purchase and sales agreement to be presented by Lakey. How are we going to handle this?

Mr. Chairman, commissioners, so what Todd wanted me to make sure everybody understood today, there will be no action on this. This is just for discussion. but you do have a draft of the purchase and sale agreement in your packet. Mr. Beltran here will walk you through that, and so we'll get your feedback and your comments, and then the goal is to bring that back in October to finalize.

Okay, is there any commentary before Mr. Beltran starts? Mr. Beltran, I did notice that in the agreement, it doesn't really refer to the legal descriptions that the City of Eagle is actually working on. So we will have legal descriptions that we can refer to versus parcel numbers. Yes, I believe so, yeah.

Great.

Thank you. Mr. Beltran, you're on.

So have you guys read through, just have you read through everything and read through the purchase and sales agreement?

Yeah, I've read through it. It looked fine. I just, for some reason, I didn't see how the payments were broken down into three.

So Todd didn't have that information, nor did he ask prior to putting this together, but my recommendation to the board is initial payment of 600,000, another payment of 500,000 after we receive our second payment for this fiscal year, which is at the end of July, and then the final 500 at the end of January of 2028.

So we'll need dates. Um, is there a no prepayment penalty in here somewhere?

There was. And let me look at where there is. There is no prepaid.

Uh, and it's clear there's no interest. Yes, it is. Unless somebody wants to get into the minutia. This is, if I remember right, not an action item, right? Just discussion.

I put it as a potential action item, but Todd wanted me to just say no action today. Just discussion only. to gather as much of your feedback as possible, and then we'll bring it back in October.

Mr. Chair, I think I saw in here that we're going to pay for the title insurance. Is that right? And we're splitting the escrow fees?

That is my understanding, Commissioner Brightfield.

Mr. Chairman, this is a very minor issue, but under title commitment, the second paragraph, it says buyer has 30, but then in parentheses it's 15 days, so it's just a small typo. Good catch.

Chairman Butler, you mentioned that they're working on legal descriptions for us. They'll be ready for our October meeting?

Yes.

Perfect.

I would recommend that once Todd works on some revisions, if he can get it to You know, a couple of us, maybe the...

The executive committee?

Yeah, the treasurer, the...

Okay.

And Jerry and myself. At least two weeks before the meeting, if possible. Is that all right? So that we will have, you know, a few days we can go through it and get it back.

Okay.

I don't know that we need to take an action on this if...

Just everybody's good. We'll move on.

Yeah. Okay. Everybody good. Okay. Item D discussion and potential action item request for proposal. Uh, Lakey review, discuss and consider approval of the request for proposal for 35 West state street and the Jackson house properties and corresponding resolution.

Mr. Chairman, again, this is just draft only for today. No action is to be taken. Todd put this together. I just received it on Saturday, so I didn't have any chance to input with him on any of the documents, so I haven't given him my comments yet. The goal today is to review this and see what comments you all might have, what direction you may want to give us so that we can finalize this and bring this back to the board in October. And I'll turn this over to Mr. Beltran, too, because he was going to walk you all through it.

I couldn't open up the document, so I didn't get a chance to read it. Mr. Beltran?

So one of the big questions he had was whether or not we intend to utilize the RFP committee in terms of evaluation of proposals or if this was going to be something that it would just be a pure board decision. So that was one of the main questions we had that is encountered throughout this. And whether or not there's an actual scoring criteria that we wanna adhere this to as well. Those were the two big questions.

OK, so as an update, we had a three-person RFP committee. Yes, sir. I don't remember who was on it.

I don't remember anymore.

OK, we don't remember.

We'd probably need to update committees at this point.

Yeah, that's back when we were nine people. We're at seven people. Our committees can be no larger than three people because of a quorum. The idea was the RFP would go to the committee. They'd iron through a bunch of things and then bring the RFP to the board. So let's talk about process first. Do we want to have that process where we put together an RFP committee and have that done? Or do we want the whole thing brought to the board?

Mr. Chair, I think for consistency, you should use the RFP committee. Okay. To take a look at it first.

And that would allow us in the October meeting to finalize committees as well, too. So we can set those committees again and formalize those. We have a motion and then we can... allow the RFP committee to do whatever they're gonna need to do.

That pushes us off quite a bit. It seems like the RFP committee should look at this between now and October and have somewhat of a finalized RFP to the board by October.

The challenge is we typically set the, in the past anyway, this has been how we've done process wise, is that we do a formal motion to set the committees. and update committees when the time is needed, which is probably now because we've had some changeover on our board. And then that is done by resolution as well. And I think there was a change in our bylaws that required that. I'd have to go back and take a look at that. But there was a change related to committees.

So then the timing would be such that in October, we'd pick a committee. Mid-October, we'd put together we'd have the committee review November. We'd have the RFP. Then the RFP would go out for 60 days, November, December, January.

Mr. Chairman, I'm not suggesting that the committee needs to review this. I think we as a board can review the RFP that we want to put out to the public. It's when we receive responses. That's what the RFP.

Oh, I misunderstood completely.

Yeah, that's what the RFP committee reviews.

Yeah.

So I think we're fine timing-wise.

I don't know about the rest of the board, but I'd like to have this ready to go out in October.

Mr. Chair, let me ask a question. In terms of priorities and timeline, the RFP is certainly secondary to the letter of intent and purchase, is it not?

I'm sorry, I was distracted.

I'm sorry. In terms of priority and timeline, the RFP comes secondary to the letter of intent and the purchase, doesn't it? Yes. And why is there such a rush to compress the two.

I'm gonna turn that over to Commissioner Butler because I know he's had conversations with the development community who is interested in responding to an RFP. We talked a little bit about it at our last meeting.

So your question is why is there a rush to, why not get through the letter of intent and getting the purchase done? and we can address the RFP at the same time, not at the same time, but why is there a rush to get it approved and out?

I don't feel there's a rush, but if we could fit the timing such that it gets done sooner than later, that's good. But as far as rush, like let's try to get it done quick, that's probably just an impression that people get from the way I express myself.

So if that's the answer, then why are we not just following the normal process for dealing with the RFP?

we are commissioner kwame i'm not i'm confused where you think we're not generally we as a board work together to get an rfp that we're all comfortable with okay okay so no we're not doing anything different than we normally do you all give direction to myself and council lakey in order to finalize this document once we do that via motion and resolution then we put that out to the public and follow the instructions that you all have determined sometimes it's 60 days sometimes it's 90 days There's a schedule that we all agree to that we want to be able to get responses within a certain time period. Then when we receive those responses, then that's where the RFP committee comes in. They review it first. They determine whether or not we even think about accepting it or not. And if we do, then we start kind of going back and forth with trying to come up with a final recommendation to the board. And then the board, that's when you all get involved. So that's how I'm proposing that we move forward, and that's how we are at this point. Does that make sense?

That makes sense.

Okay. Thank you. Sorry if I confused you somehow. That's fine.

I don't think it's you. Actually, I've got this anxious energy, and I think that kind of confuses things sometimes. Sorry. Okay. So... What do you want us to do? We would like you to help us.

So I need feedback on the draft RFP that you have in front of you that Todd put together. Like I said, I didn't even have a chance to give him any feedback. So it's all of us coming up with any of the concerns or questions that we have that I can work with him to be able to get you hopefully a final version for approval in October.

okay so the feedback is going to come then in the form of us looking right now which i couldn't open this i didn't have a chance to open it and then let's say the meeting gets done can the different board members then take their time to look at it in the next week or two and then email you feedback also that is fine too i don't think we're going to see todd this week at all so we have a little bit of a we have a little bit of a chance to pull that together So let's go through now, and whatever you have seen in here, if you'd like to provide feedback, let's do it, but understand that every board member is open to reviewing it later and emailing Ashley their feedback, okay? So with that, who all's had a chance to look?

Mr. Chairman, I did, and it looks excellent. I mean, pretty similar to the previous one we had, though, right?

Yeah, he used the basis for the original 35 West State Street from, what, three years ago as kind of the starting point.

I'm not in the development world, but if... Does it impact the interest of developers at all if the Jackson House thing is not completed? In other words, us owning it, would that impact it at all? If you're a developer and you look at this, but we don't know yet.

It could, but again, the chairman's had some conversations with potential developers that may have given some feedback on that. I don't know.

No, I've talked to, just as disclosure, I've talked to Dave Buitch and Kayla Brugge and a lady, I don't remember her name, who had an interest in the house.

Who's Dave, I'm sorry?

Dave Buitch is a developer in town. He's somewhat connected with Nick Louie, I don't know how, that we just approved. He's somewhat connected with the Parkinson stuff.

Yeah, they're partners now.

Yeah. That SD. And just, having represented developers for years, to answer your question, I don't see how, I mean, a developer would look at this, see there's a letter of intent, knows that the agency's gonna buy it. I don't see how that would stop a developer from putting a RFP together. And by the time we get this RFP put together, we're gonna be closer to maybe owning the property.

Does that answer your question? It does, thank you.

I will go through this in detail, but I want to be sure that it's very clear that whatever development goes on this is 100,000% subject to city council review and approval and compliance with comp plans, zoning codes, all that stuff. Okay?

Yep. No, that's part of the review questions that he included is whether it does meet those requirements, and so that would be something that we would have to look at.

Okay. Is there something in here if you had a chance to look at it, and if not? I can look at it later, that says, what happens with the Jackson house? Are we offering the Jackson house up also? In other words, I'd like the opportunity for the URA to keep the house and the remaining property if it turns out ultimately that's in the best financial interest for us, not to keep forever, but to keep from a developer so that we could sell it separately if we had a separate buyer.

I don't think there's that language in there, so I think that's something that we would have to direct him to include.

Yeah, I think that needs to be an alternative, that a developer can include that in there, but that we want the option also to keep that out. I just in my heart think that we could sell that for at least $700,000, no matter what other people say, and recoup some of our money.

I would think more.

Yeah, I would think more, but under-promise, over-deliver.

I'll make sure that language gets put in.

Other members? And I know we're kind of at a disadvantage. We haven't had a chance to look, so if not, we'll just... And it's the whole piece. We're offering our two pieces, and... for somebody to propose the development. Do we need any sort of language in there? Craig and I, I think, had a conversation that says, any specifics? Like along State Street, we don't want a parking garage, or should we just wait and see? I guess we don't want to handcuff developers too much. I'd like to see retail continue along State Street going out to the west versus the corner being a whatever and then parking garage structure. Do we want to get that kind of detail in something like this? You know better than me.

I would recommend if there's something specific that you all want to see with the response, then you need to put it in there. Otherwise, you're going to be probably disappointed.

Well, in looking at this plan that was done by Caleb Rupp, which is part of the public record, he had roughly planned a pad site at the corner and then having a parking garage coming right up through State Street as you go west. comp plan for the city and the city codes encourage, and you know this too, retail up to the street. And I think we probably should say we'd rather see retail or some sort of building structure up against adjacent to state versus some sort of parking structure. Everybody's nodding yes.

Mr. Chairman, I agree. Chairman, and he does have that on page 12. Really? There's some, yeah. Good job. Like the downtown area. Yeah.

All right, I was going back through the other respondent stuff. Thank you.

I don't know if it's the detail you're looking for, but it does have the Old Town.

Oh, so he took the language from the comp plan and put it in here. I think we should hit it again, though, in terms of at later in the document when we start talking about the things that we're looking at. Thank you for that.

Mr. Chair, are you picturing something similar to what we have at the Hemingway where you've got the retail to the front and then directly behind it has underground, not underground necessarily, the cover would be parking.

Parking behind it, yeah.

Okay.

And I believe there's plenty of room behind that property to be able to do exactly what he was talking about.

I believe so.

Mr. Chair, I know in conversations about potentially having developed this or future uses, there's been discussion about having some sort of a small memorial area for Orville Jackson as a veteran of World War I. So would that be something to be appropriate to have in the RFP, to have that?

I can talk to him about that.

Because I do think that would be important.

Yeah, we definitely, we, I don't know who we are, definitely want something along the drain in that general area. And it was a tribute to medics.

Medics, yeah.

Medics, war medics.

Okay.

Because Orville Jackson was a medic in the war.

Okay.

An American... American Legion really supports that, by the way. Yeah. Who wants to see that?

Mr. Chair, I don't want to go into too detail, but remember I think we've had discussions on that corner, State and Eagle, having some sort of step up, in other words. Yeah, the architectural. We're not having a three-story building on this side, three-story on the other side.

I think there was something that was in there, but I'll make a note and we'll double check. Okay.

Mr. Chairman, I have a question on page three. It's describing parcels three and four. I guess I was under the assumption that this was just for the Jackson House properties.

No, it's our properties too. It's 35 West State Street. So those two properties and then the two properties associated with the Jackson House.

Okay, so we're including those properties as well.

Yeah, it's one RFP for both.

Got it.

Thank you. Yeah. Do we want to put the condition for those locust trees?

Yeah, I have tree conditions and a little wider sidewalk condition.

Wider sidewalk?

Just the building set back a touch more. I think it's the one, I mean, it's a beautiful building, but it's kind of a little daunting, I think.

It is, yeah. We can get into those details. I don't know if you want to.

We'll encourage that.

Yeah, encourage the special locust trees for Francie.

I want to plaque at every one of them.

You're looking at the time. Normally I go quickly, but today I'm dragging it out, huh? That's okay.

Like a yogurt shop.

Yogurt shop. Okay. Let's focus.

I'm cutting you off at this point.

Anything else? Okay. So I think that was an action item.

Again, that was potential. It's supposed to be direct. We'll just take these comments. We'll go back and work on this. We'll get something to the executive committee two weeks beforehand for review. Okay. And then bring this back in October.

That's that. Okay. We're moving on.

All right. Moving on.

Item E, action item, project payment number one for State Street Unification Project.

Yes.

Yes.

So, Mr. Chairman.

I reviewed that payment request. I've gone over it with Antonio. It's right in line with our contract. If we can approve this, we can get our first payment done.

Yeah, so our first payment is $95,712.09.

Would somebody like to read the resolution? If not, I will if I can find it.

Mr. Chair, I'll make a motion, hopefully on the right resolution this time, that the Urban Renewal Agency of the City of Eagle approve resolution number 26-034 by the Board of Commissioners of the Urban Renewal Agency of Eagle, Idaho, also known as EURA. resolution of the board of commissioners of the eagle urban renewal agency of eagle approving the progress payment request from wright brothers construction on the state street beautification project in the amount of ninety five thousand seven hundred twelve dollars and nine cents and authorizing the board officers and executive director to take all necessary action required to implement this resolution and providing an effective date okay we have a motion on the resolution is there a second

Have a motion and a second. Any discussion? Roll call vote, please.

Agusa. Aye. Burkeville. Aye. Butler. Aye. Dietrich. Aye. Plummey. Aye. McComber.

Aye.

York. Aye. Motion passes.

Thank you next item action item downtown striping plan Butler. So, as you know, we had hired somebody to do striping downtown. They did a plan that was like a child's plan. So the city hired. Somebody to do a parking plan. I walked this whole downtown area with them. They did a first draft. I walked it again and had some refinements to make. They did a second draft. I walked it again, and there was two minor refinements. So this is the striving plan. Obviously, when people come out to stripe, they might notice something and have to adjust a little bit. But if this is in alignment with what the board wanted, we will get an action on it and put it out to a proposal. Right, Ashley?

Mr. Chair.

Yes, sir.

Does this add any additional parking at all? I'm just curious.

Okay, the question is, does it add parking? This creates a situation where parking will be more orderly, and in my mind, therefore, add parking.

More efficient anyway.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's always fun to watch the people in front of you.

It just depends on how people park, whether or not it adds or not.

Yeah, I've counted in front of the hem when it's been full there, and I know what this is, and we'll be able to fit two more spaces roughly compared to how they typically park. So unless there's questions, we'll have a motion to approve this plan.

Mr. Chairman, I do have a question. Yes, sir. It's showing the T-striping in front of Hemingway. I thought we talked about not doing that portion, but it shows up on this map.

Why would we not stripe in front of Hemingway? Well, I don't know. We talked about it and had the discussion that we would not.

I'm in favor of it.

I don't remember that discussion.

Okay. Maybe I'm making it up.

It seems like the Hemingway is what led us to this whole thing. That's fine. That was my only question. Okay. Let me see what this action item says.

There's a resolution, 26035. Oh, there's a resolution for it.

And then if we act on it, can we get three proposals and then bring it back to the board in October?

Yeah, you can give me who you want me to get back.

Yeah, and then they can't start until mid-October. We're getting right into winter.

Close, but I should be able to get it done.

Okay, all right.

It was 60 degrees at Thanksgiving last year, so...

You know, I'm going to abstain because they're actually striping some stripes next to the property I own at 222 East State Street. And it's only there because the board wanted to extend that way. I never asked for that. So I'm going to abstain on the vote. So is there a motion for the resolution?

Mr. Chairman, I move to approve resolution number 26-035 by the Board of Commissioners of the Eagle Urban Renewal Agency of Eagle, Idaho, a.k.a. EURA, a resolution of the Board of Commissioners of the Eagle Urban Renewal Agency of Eagle, Idaho, EURA, approving the parking space striping plan prepared by Beck and Baird for parking in portions of downtown Eagle and authorizing the board officers and executive directors to take all necessary action required to implement this resolution and providing an effective case.

We have a motion on the resolution. Is there a second? Second. Motion and a second. Any discussion? No discussion? Roll call vote.

Mr. Chairman, this could probably be a voice vote.

Voice vote? All those in favor, signify by saying aye.

Aye.

And I abstain. Oh, good job. I abstain. Okay, next item and our last item, so Mr. Gerber and I can go out and have a donut. Action item, South Beck and Baird invoice for downtown striping. This is the amount that we approved to have the downtown striping plan done, and I can tell you, he and I put in a lot more work than what he proposed.

Yeah, so Mr. Chairman, members of the board, that amount is $1,540.

And I will abstain on this also.

It's resolution 26036.

Is there a motion on the resolution?

Chair, I'll make a motion to approve Urban Renewal Agency Resolution 26-036 by the Board of Commissioners of the Eagle Urban Renewal Agency of Eagle, Idaho, also known as EURA. A resolution of the Board of Commissioners of the Eagle Urban Renewal Agency of Eagle approving the payment to Beck and Baird for the preparation of the downtown parking space striping plan in the amount of $1,540 and authorizing the board officers and executive director to take all necessary action required to implement this resolution and providing an effective date.

We have a motion on the resolution. Is there a second?

Second.

We have a motion and a second. Any discussion? Roll call vote, please.

Agresa? Aye. Brakeville? Tommy.

Aye.

McComber. Aye. York. Aye.

Okay, seeing nothing else on the agenda, is there a motion to adjourn?

I'll make a motion to adjourn.

Of a motion, is there a second?

Second.

All those in favor, signify by stating aye. Aye. We're adjourned. Good job. Thank you all. Nice seeing you, Mac. Nice seeing you.

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