City of Bloomington, Indiana Redevelopment Commission, 19 Oct 2020

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Let's call the meeting to order it's five o'clock. um We have the forums so we're in good shape.

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Yeah we are in good shape. um Let's start with roll call commissioner's present, I'm john griffin.

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Bye eric sandwich david walter. Okay, um do we have staff who's who's? President, in regards to staff.

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Doris sam's hand director, okay, hand, department, okay, chris yeah. We got you um okay, let's have.

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A reading of the minutes is there a motion to approve the minutes for october, the 5th 2020.

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This is david. Walter. Sam weiss was second okay, all those in favor uh I don griffin, aye.

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Eric hi david walter, none opposed the motion carries, let's have examination of claims is.

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There a motion to approve the claims register for october, the 2nd 2020. so mo. This is eric stanweis.

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uh I'll second, that david walter, all in favor, don griffin, aye, stan weisse david walters, aye.

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Unopposed the motion carries examination of payroll registers.

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Is there a motion to approve the payroll register for october, the 9th 2020.

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This is david, walter I'll make that motion eric sandwich. Surprisingly, I will second, it.

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All in favor I don griffin stand wise all right, david walter right, opposed.

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The motion carries report of officers and committees. Is there a director's report today.

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Yes, so um I recently hired a new assistant director of the housing navy development.

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Department, his name is brent, pierce and pierce starts in november 2nd. So I will have him at.

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The next redevelopment commission meeting to introduce him to the redevelopment commissioners.

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Okay, cool, that's the end of my report. Okay, and if you have any questions, I'm here available.

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Is there a legal report? I don't have a report, but I'm happy to answer any questions.

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Okay, is there a treasurer's report? No there is it. So that's fine. Is there a ctp uh update report.

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Yeah, so it's just general uh two, two updates. I wanted to give you. This is alex crowley.

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Director economic, sustainable development, so the first is: I just want to uh talk a little bit about.

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The um hospital site, if you recall a while back, we released an rf queue, I think it was or rfi for.

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To look for a variety of different uh services, one of which was a.

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A search for a partner for the hospital site for what we were considering back then to be a kind.

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Of master developer-like function that evolved over time, and we were in discussions with one.

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Company to help us do what became more of an owner's rep relationship and.

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And and that company was browning um and we have been in discussions with them, uh trying to figure.

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Out if there was a scenario where we could work out a mutually agreeable and- and you know.

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uh Productive arrangement, uh we ended up basically deciding mutually that we were trying to.

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Really force them into a scenario that they were not really uh well sort of designed to to do and.

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So um we ended up recently saying you know what let's not try to force this they are. They continue.

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To be very interested in the hospital site, they will will likely be a player in development.

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Somewhere in the site, um but what we're going to end up doing is going back into the market.

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Probably, by the end of the year, with a much better sense of what it is exactly that we're looking for.

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Which again has evolved over time and and do a new search to see if we can have a partner.

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An owner's rep just so you understand what that is is is really someone who's representing in.

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This case, the redevelopment commission slash city to once the master plan has been developed, go out.

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And and essentially find development partners that can come in and help the city and the rdc execute.

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Against that master plan, so it's a really useful and important tool. uh We want to have a a partner.

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That you know is really organized to do that and browning's great, but I think where we all ended up.

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Was realizing that that you know it was our two perspectives were going to be different enough.

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That it was probably going to create issues down downstream. So short answer is we're going.

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To go back to the market, we're going to go, look for a partner and uh stay tuned and we'll we'll.

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Share some more information as that evolves. Okay, because browning is a development company. They.

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They really wanted to buy the property and develop it themselves. Yeah and they're gonna.

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They're, a great developer and they're gonna be a great, hopefully you know very and they remain.

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Very interested in this, and so you know, I think, that's that's probably a great way to have them.

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Involved in the hospital side, uh it was it was whether or not we could get them to kind of expand.

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Their scope into this other other type of role, and I think that was going to become difficult.

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um And then the other unrelated uh just want to let you know that the you know as you as you.

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May see, as you drive by the fourth street garage, it's starting to you know, come out of the ground.

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um We are going to be looking at some of the commercial space uh on the on.

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The ground floor uh there are, you know, a variety of different potential uses for that.

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um And as we uh we'll start to get ready to to market that as as commercial space, one one detail.

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That's slightly different than what you all uh saw, perhaps early on in the design. There's going to be.

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A slightly larger portion of that commercial space will be used by the city there's going to.

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Be a parking services uh footprint uh in that that was always contemplated, but we're going.

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To use one more bay for that than we originally thought because, what's going to happen, that'll be.

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That'll, be a you know, a sort of a shop if you will for the for the parking services folks to repair.

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Meters and and do some of the work that they do and they're going to consolidate into um into that.

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Commercial that part of the commercial space so it'll be slightly slightly larger than you thought.

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But but really no material change to the the ground.

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Floor use as commercial space it'll just be uh used by us. So so are they paying market rate.

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We'll see, I'm not laughing we're on a zoom call here. This is our property.

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Are they doing this for front? Do they think they're getting two bays for free.

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uh You know I I have not. uh This is I I can. Let me talk to jeff about that. We will come back next.

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And let you know what that is: let's figure that out. Okay, this ain't, no charity! Sorry.

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Sometimes it is, let me ask you another question: while I got you here, we we had. I know we had some.

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uh What is it the administration building didn't? We have an offer to purchase on that.

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At one point in time and then don't we and and then what what what happened to the.

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What's that the kim is the camp, can we close on that? I don't even remember now.

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The killness is going to be closed, so the killness you know is is moving along. They obviously things.

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Got you know the the things got slowed down, but uh but we're you know we're moving towards a close.

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On that the admin building we opened, we opened that up and went to market with it uh and got a.

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Handful of proposals back and we're starting down the road with one of the people uh that had put a.

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Proposal in one group that had put a proposal in and um and then of course, you know, office, space.

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Literally, dried up right and, and so um we we are, we need to figure out what to do with that. That.

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That right now is in limbo, and we have to figure out what to do with it um right now. Our focus is.

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On really just locking it down for the winter make sure that it's sealed up, and you know that there's.

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Not a lot of um access to it, um but you know, as as you know, better than anybody. The commercial.

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Market right now is, is certainly um yeah, not what it was 12 months ago, and so so we're just trying.

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To adjust to that reality to see how long that situation's gonna affect the admin building. Okay,.

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We have uh ongoing interest to it. You know with it. In fact, I got an email over the weekend about.

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It, but um you know they're, you know we just have to figure out what to do with it. Right now,.

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Okay, all right uh any other questions, uh any developer of not developers.

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Redevelopment commissioners uh have for anyone, or should we go on to new business.

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Let's move on: let's go um all right. The next item of business is resolution. 20-71 approval.

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Of the cdbg covet funding agreement for the boys and girls club well, as you can see, I'm going to.

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Speak to that doris sims hand director, although the resolutions that you have before you tonight.

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Are resolutions for approval of our cdbg covet funding agreements uh back um in about may the.

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City receive an allocation uh under the cares act for any type of activity dealing with covet 19 to.

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Prevent and address covet concerns of agencies. We had an open application process.

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In june, um we submitted to the redevelopment commission all of the applicants that you see here.

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Tonight uh requested for funding. uh We submitted that on to hud for approval. We have now received.

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That approval so now we're entering into funding agreement with those agencies. Okay, boris. Can I.

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Can I list each one and you tell the price and then we we we.

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You follow me: can we just kind of consolidate all these.

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I'm sorry when you say tell the price: do you want to do them individually or do you want to do them.

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As a group, we could do do each one. I could so it's like start off with hey. This is a resolution. 20-71.

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This is the funding agreement for boys and girls club.

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This is how much we're giving and then go on to 20-72 same thing. We don't. I guess we don't.

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We don't really need to do that. You tell me how what how how else we should do it should we just.

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List them all and then give the price, or how do you want to do it? I'm happy to do that.

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I would have to look at each resolution: let's not move individually. No, you can make it as easy as.

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Possible, it's it's up to you! If you would like to take one vote on them, just make a motion to.

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Consider them as a group and then I can talk to you about them all right. So can I just continue.

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All right so should I so I'm gonna just list them all. Then.

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Starting from from the res, the boys and girls club and I'll just list them all,.

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How's that sound well do we have a motion to consider them as a group or do you want.

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To consider, do you want to vote on each one individually, or do you want to vote on them? I.

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Think we can vote on them as a group. Are you guys, with okay with loading them all on on, as a group.

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I will support that so long as each one gets read into the record.

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uh As uh the name of the agency and the amount that it's getting for, okay, is that emotional.

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I will move uh consolidating the uh grants into a single motion so long as uh each grant can be.

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Enumerated well separately, everything yeah. uh This is david walter and, of course,.

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It's something for something here so, along with that would be saying uh what it is. The.

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Organization is doing, which is on that first page of each resolution right there with the.

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Funding then it says this is what we're going to do with the money. So I will uh second that motion.

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Okay, uh all those in favor aye, don griffin, hi eric stan weiss, hi david walter.

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Okay um motion is approved, um so let let's go with the first one: a resolution 70-or 20-71, a pro.

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Approval of the cdbg covid funding agreement for boys and girls club um the next one.

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Is resolution 20-72 approval of the cdbg coveted funding agreement for the hoosier hills, food bank.

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The next is resolution 20-70 through.

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23 approval of the cdbg coveted funding agreement for middleway house.

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Resolution 20-74 approval of the cdbg coveted funding agreement for the mother, hubbard.

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Hubbard's mother hubbard's covered.

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Resolution 20-75 approval of the cbdg coveted funding agreement for my sister's closet.

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Resolution 20-76 approval of the cbdg covet funding agreement for new hopes.

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New hopes for families, I'm sorry resolution 20-77 approval of the cdbg coven funding.

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Agreement for the new leaf new life uh and resolution 20-78 approval of the cdbg.

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Coveted funding agreement for shalom center shalom community center. Sorry.

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Did you want to? Did you need the individual prices? John? I think both dave and I we're hoping that.

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The the amount and the and the general purpose of each grant could be read into the record. I'm sorry.

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To okay not have interrupted you at the start, but can we add that or at least make that a part of.

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Our discussion following uh yeah you've entered the motion. Yeah. uh Do you wanna? Do you wanna.

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Do that um um doris sure I mean it's gonna take me because I have one just big packet, okay and so.

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It's going to take a while to find every individual resolution to read it in.

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To what they're going to be using the funding for okay hold on here.

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Let me see here see what I can do here guys unless I'm trying to find I'm sorry, I'm trying.

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To find the original resolution that went to the commission, okay, so so let me let me try so uh the.

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Christmas boys and girls club is for fifty thousand dollars.

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I can help out a little bit, so those are to increase some of the services so specifically.

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uh That that will uh provide additional programming, um particularly because uh of.

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Schools operating remotely, I think that there's an increased need for the boys and girls club.

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Programming on those hours that parents can't be with us, so that is to expand some of their.

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Youth programming about 50 000 for the year, okay and then and then the next one we have is.

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God these are long resolutions yeah, so I get it I'm sorry, but I'm so sorry, doris. I understand.

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That the next one's for hoosier hills, food, bank, yeah and that's for fifty thousand dollars as well.

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um Here this is, this is just to facilitate what they're already doing, which is the.

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You know collecting and distributing food uh both to community nonprofits and for.

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Families in the area, so this is just to basically increase their capacity. We know there's been.

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And doors can fill in more of this there's been an increased demand on food banks and food centers.

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uh So that's that's that part of that one, and certainly if any of the commissioners want more.

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Specifics please please interrupt me. Next, one is middle way house for five thousand dollars.

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And, and uh is that just to also continue on with their services, it looks like yeah.

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So that one with middleweight house is to assist them with um providing ppe equipment.

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For their staff, as they do intake for women who are coming seeking services from their shelter.

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And then uh the next is mother, hubbard covered for 25, 000 and mother hubbard's cupboard is also they.

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Provide food services, and so this is for the need, the increased need for food.

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uh For residents who have been underemployed or who are unemployed due to covet okay.

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And uh we've got my sister's closet. um I don't remember reading that off, but I guess I did yes.

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Yeah, so my sister's closets funding is to assist them with hiring a staff.

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Member to provide services to the women who come to them, they provide not only clothing, but they.

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Provide job training, skills and just other type of assessment of the needs of the women.

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And to be able to do that to hire a person to be able to do it electronically.

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The next is new hopes for families um and they've been approved for thirty three thousand eight.

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Hundred and sixty two dollars, and that is for new hope to be able to new hope, is a homeless, shelter.

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um So that they will be able to help distance, the families that come to their homeless, shelter and.

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Also for the families who have young children in daycare, it is to assist those families as well.

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With the daycare services, they have on-site daycare services and to be able to cleanse the.

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Equipment that the children use you leave new life for fifteen thousand dollars, so new leaf new life.

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Deals with um inmates who are transitioning out of the being incarcerated- and this is to provide.

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Them what services particular in this age of covet, where they can be able to find housing.

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As well as other public services, the next one is shalom community center for fifty thousand dollars.

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And with shalom shalom runs not only um a homeless shelter, but they also have a day care day. Services.

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For uh those who are homeless, where they have a location where they can receive meals as well.

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As where they can have us an address to have mail sent to where they can do laundry services.

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And then this is to help uh shalom with their distancing of their clients due to covet.

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Okay, that's that's! That's all of them!.

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um Do we have any questions from the public in regards to these resolutions? First of all,.

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What's that b square, what do we got.

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So let me see if I can open up his. He says he he, oh he he he got a total of 253.

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862 is that the maximum amount of funding that was available, in other words, did we leave.

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Any cares act money on the table here, so we didn't leave it on the.

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Table that wasn't the maximum amount of funding that we received from hud.

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What has happened is that applicants had to apply. We did have more applicants who applied. However,.

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Their what they required for funding did not meet the uh requirements under the cares act. So we do.

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Look to hold a second round of cares. Act funding, make notice of a second round of funding being.

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Available in november and hopefully to be able to award them by the end of december.

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Emily earnsberger of the ht uh she says uh at the risk of sounding dumb.

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No uh nothing's done here: why does the rdc approve these resolutions? Will it go to the.

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City council for to be approved as well, so the covert funding, unlike our regular community.

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Development block grant application under our our citizens. Participation plan only requires.

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Our covet funding to go to the redevelopment commission for approval, not the city council,.

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Now what the city council is, but whenever we do funding agreement resolutions which we're doing.

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Now um it's always has been the redevelopment commission that has approved the funding.

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Agreements and the reason why is the reader? The redevelopment commission is the governing body of.

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The housing neighborhood development department, so they approve all of our funding agreements.

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Okay, any other questions from the public.

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All right any questions from redevelopment commissioners in regards to to these resolutions.

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None from me, thank you, okay! No, not for me either dave walter. All right can we have a motion.

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This is david walter. I would recommend.

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That we approve resolution 20-71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77 and 20-78.

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Eric sandwich seconded with uh thanks to all those who uh submitted and reviewed applications.

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All those in favor aye, don griffin, eric sandwich hi david walter. I all opposed none.

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The motion carries. Thank you. That's hopefully, that's gonna really help those tremendous services.

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That we have uh uh helping here in bloomington helping our folks in bloomington. So um we have.

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Any other general discussion or business that we want to talk about. Are we good just briefly for.

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The general discussion, I want to note that for the next meeting we should be having the annual.

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Report of the redevelopment commission- uh that's something that's required by state code, so I just.

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Want to give you all heads up and it'll provide a summary of uh basically what the finances are and.

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What we've spent in the last year, as well as going forward so look forward to that on november, 2nd.

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Bring your caffeine right: it should be an exciting presentation, president and I'm sure captivating.

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To admit all right guys, thank you so much uh it's been a joy and uh meeting is adjourned.

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