The time is 4:30. The date is Tuesday, March 24th, 2026 um or 6:30. Um start off, we have the announcement of open uh meeting recordings. Is anyone besides staff recording today's meeting?
I see none. Uh, moving on to the public hearing for FY26 CBG proposed projects and the reallocation of funds from the FY2223 and FY25 funds director.
So, we um hopefully you all read my email that I sent out on Friday. We had planned to uh reallocate a large portion of the fiscal year 25 funds that were originally designated for the school street school walkway design
um and the gardener emergency housing mission homeless prevention project to our existing public social service activities. three of those activities. Um, but we heard from the state, from the executive office of housing livable
communities that we can't um extend those grants for as long as we wanted to. So, we can add an additional three months worth of funding to the to their fiscal year 25 grants, which they are just now receiving. So, that will get them through um through this coming year
into the next year. So, I think it will all work out. Um, based on the timing of when announce awards are announced, I think it will be okay to do that. I don't think they'll put their their programs at risk. Making that change allows us to allocate
um 45,000 and change, I think it is, to um to the community garden expansion project. If we if the committee chooses to do that, we have enough money there in fiscal year 25 to make that change. And then we still we'd have a little bit
of money in um program administration, program delivery for that year. The fiscal year 26 proposed projects have not changed where we just have the one um infrastructure project for city hall for um city hall avenue downtown phase
six improvements and um money for program administration in that year. Any questions about that? I think um you know that we won't be able to fund Laundry Love like we were planning to, but I think we'll probably
have money in fiscal year 24 to be able to do that if the pavilion comes in under budget or we have, you know, funds remaining when it's done at the end of the hopefully at the end of the summer. Um we we have the ability to fund one more public social service project that
year. So, um, we can potentially do that for fiscal year 24. >> It'll just wait till project completion to see what the >> costs ended up being for the project. >> Right. And for this,
unless there's any comments, I'll entertain a motion to accept the proposed allocation of the 9,000 for FY223 funds and the 100 and that is to
the gardener school department athletic program. And then what's the breakdown of the 140? So, I have my FY25. >> Um, it's that last column on the second page. >> Okay,
maybe I should should I go through I'll go through all of them. That would be 7500 for the Gardener CAC, 5,750 for the Gardener School Department athletic program, 3,750
for Voices of Truth, 45,635 for St. Post Episcopal Church, 70,500 for the city of Gardener Park Community Health and Planning and 6,865 for program administration and delivery
totaling the 140,000. >> Second. >> Oh, still moved. >> Sorry. Yeah, it was a long motion, but just the the approval of of those amendments to to um move forward with
those allocations for FY223 and the 25 um CPG uh applications. >> So, I'll make a motion. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I opposed.
All right. Sometimes I forget to say I when I'm the one leading the meetings. I'm so used to being the one in the background. Um, all right. Moving on from there, we have regular meeting. We have the vote to approve the MITs from the February 24th, 2026 meeting.
>> I make the motion to approve the minutes as presented. >> Motion to approve the minutes as presented. Second. >> All in favor say I. >> I. Opposed? So moved. Moving on to item number three, old business schedule of
FY26 CDG mini entitlement application. Any updates for us in regards to the 26 application? I know we have the schedule in front of us for the application. >> Um last page of your packet there. Um
not many updates. who went to the um ecode committee twice. Um and this information that you just um approved will go to the city council for them to pass a resolution at their April 6th
meeting. Then we'll finalize the application and get it in hopefully well before the April 21st deadline. Moving on, unless there's any comments, >> I'm just being chair of the Echo Dev committee. Um, it was great
presentation. We got all our question answered. We have all the information that we needed. Um, for me it was obviously well verssed in this at this point. Um, but it was I think that's the same exact process you should plan to do in the future. Given you had worked it
into the timeline. Um, so there really is no questions because it's it was um it was pretty straightforward and there was no other suggestions. So >> should be a welloiled machine for next year after all the new processes and I think standardizations that we've set
forward for both the city's administration as well as the delivery for social service providers. I think there's been a lot of clarity and it's I think prevalent with how smoothly we've moved through this checklist of how much work has gone into this. So appreciate
assistant director how's this work over the past uh eight month eight nine months now >> I think. Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Um all right moving on to the status of FY25 CG mini entitlement grant.
So, um, we received a release, a partial release, I think I said this at the last meeting, from EOHLC for our fiscal year 25 grant. The only outstanding work items were the reallocation of the funds that we talked about earlier and they
have some questions about the Waterford um street community center improvements and the feasibility of that project and just how it kind of relates to the overall improve the CDBG funded portion relates to the overall improvements at the center. So we've been responding to
their questions about that. Um just sent them another email responding to some questions today. So hopefully we can wrap that up and we'll have a a good update for you at the next meeting. But that's moving forward. Um we have Ty and Bond the city's on call engineers
working on the design and bid documents for both the pavilion which is a fiscal year 24 project but also um the fiscal year 25 downtown improvements fa phase 5 project which is Willow Street from Main Street to
Connor's. Yeah. Um, so hoping to get both of those out for bid soon. Um, the pavilion, they're hoping to get that um, put together, the bid package put together by the end of the month, get that out to bid and get it underway this summer and completed in the fall. But I'm jumping ahead because
that is a 40 fiscal year 24 project. But it's kind of those are kind of our priorities right now, those two projects, getting the bid documents together. Um, and then fiscal year 25 social public social service agreements. I have those
ready to go. I've been waiting with, you know, waiting for it tonight and this approval to move forward with the amendment request to EOHLC so we can add that additional money to those grant agreements and not have to issue an amendment. That can just all be in one
agreement. That's it for 25. All right. FY24 Greenwood Memorial Pavilion Park. >> Yeah, I already talked about that. Um and then social services uh that we we
received the information we needed from the gardener athletic program. So we have the information that we need um submitted in the state system and we can close that out. So that's that's it for fiscal year 24 public social services >> and then 2023 starting off with the
demolition of 205 213 Main Street. Uh we do have the parcel uh privately or now privately listed um or publicly listed I guess I should say um with the broker that we have for the uh redevelopment
authority. So that is being listed for a period of um I think we're listing until April 24th and then we're going to review interest and then make decision on whether to continue marketing uh or um move forward
from there how we want to move forward from there. So just as this is on there until that land disposition is completed um and the most of the deliberations are within executive session. Uh that's the extent that I can kind of talk about where where that is.
Uh Greenwood Pool demolition >> and you you can jump in on this because I know you were out there recently with >> Bond. Yeah, we went last Friday uh with one of the representatives from Time Bond and Fred from uh Associated Building Records just to review the conditions on the site. Um honestly, a
lot better I think in terms of the amount of frost and snow that we got in terms of the conditions on the site after everything's now melted. Um there is some slight regrading that they have to do. Um some uh electrical work for
the underground conduit up on the north portion of the site. um closest to Park Street I think they have to they they're going to run which was included in the original scope um and then they're going to not LMAN seed that was decided and discussed
um last year uh with the intent of moving forward with the um pavilion construction uh just to save this project a little bit of money that we would then also be able to hopefully um utilize elsewhere. Um,
so I think they're just waiting for a good day to come out in the next month or so to to finish up the project and then close that out. And um, yeah, >> thanks. >> And then social services, which I think
the only one left is the 9,000. We've now we have for the gardener athletic program, which you've touched on. So, we also have the um Gardner CAC and MBA projects that we um reallocated funds
towards and we've received several invoices from both programs and we're hoping to wrap those up within the next month or two. Um Gardner CAC ordered their cargo van and that will probably take a couple months to come in, but um once they get that, I think they'll have
expended all all the funds that they've awarded. >> Um that'll be great. Maybe we can have an event with some photo ops for the cargo van and all of you. Um it's very exciting to be a great idea because again you always want people to know
where the funds go and what how you know if they just imag the question is where did that come from? Where did you get that how did you get that? You know it's that kind of a thing. And um I think it would be great to know that it was with CDBG funds. >> It was you know city supported type of
thing. be great and Julie's just been so grateful that it's not a great idea. >> We'll get that figured out. All right, that being the last item on the agenda, any other discussions for any of the
items discussed? Uh, just I just have one. The your communication with HLC about the Waterford Center community project and that's funds and things. Um is it so is it for them to determine whether we can use the funds toward that? Like is there a timeline on this? Like
>> um it is it so it was the feasibility of the project was one of the special conditions they had in our grant award. So it is it will determine whether we can move forward with the project or not. What what they their determination is. Um
originally when they asked about it, it seemed like um they were concerned about the environmental review and the timing of that in relation to the other work that has been carried out at the center because um based on that guidance, you are supposed to look at the overall
project when you do your environmental review, which we did. Um but they wanted to ensure that we did. So, they had that set of questions and then after we responded to those questions, they had some additional questions about
the money, the other money that's allocated, you know, what the timeline is for all of that work to be done, kind of how the CDBG portion fits in with that. Um, so th those are the questions we responded to today. So, we'll see if they have additional questions or not.
>> Thank you. Any other comments? All right. Then I'll entertain a motion that we adjourn. So moved. Second. >> Motion a second to adjurnn. All in favor say I. I.
>> All post say nay. >> So moved. Motion carries. Meeting journed. >> Thank you. >> Thank you all.