Great is that. It takes little for know just topped I remember talking about this it's nice Good evening. I now call to order the Metropolitan and Economic Development Committee to order for Monday. MAY 12. We'll begin with introductions of my colleagues on the first real. Thank you, MADAM. Leader Dear Kale district. 23. Thank you. MADAM Chair. My name is Michael Paul Hart representing District 20. Thank you. MADAM Chair, Brian Mowery District. 25, thank you. MADAM Chair, Nic Robertson short for. Thank you. MADAM Chair, Brie and
Illini District, 2. Good afternoon. MADAM Chair Ron Gibson District 8. Thank you. MADAM Chair Council Jerod Evans representing District 17. Thank you. MADAM Leader Leroy Robinson represent District One. Thank you, counselor Maggie Lewis District 5, the first item on our agenda. This proposal, number one, 41 points, Victoria, Betty, to the Indianapolis City Market Corporation board of directors is MISS Victoria present. Stan, not seeing her on it. And a motion for a postponement move. Chair said all those in favor signify by saying Aye is opposed. Same sign the motion carries the next item on our agenda proposal. Number one, 42 reappoint. Marty, let me get to the Indianapolis City
Market Corporation board directors. You should have his information in your packet. You MAY recall MISTER Varney served as the executive director of the cia the for several years in our community. He's not available to attend this meeting today. So questions comments from counselors. Otherwise entertain a motion Councilor heart. Yeah, just one thing, MADAM Chair, just clarification on the last proposal, the agenda states appointment of Victoria be. But the proposal suggest it's a reappointment. I don't make it clear for the record. But beyond that, proposal. One. 42, MADAM Clerk, did you it that script thank you. Thank you. Leader heart additional comments on proposal. Number
one, 42 councilor Gibson. Yes, MADAM Chair. I move that. We go ahead Proposing one. 42, which appoints very, very light live in good to the Indianapolis City Market Corporation board of directors. Second, most property with second. Is there anyone in audience that wishes to speak to propose a number one? 42. All those in favor signify by saying Aye. Those opposed same sign the motion carries the next item on our agenda is propose a number one. Sorry that has real quick. Thank you. MADAM Chair, be added as a sponsor for one. 42, MR. Levin, good as it cuts. It reminded a great neighborhood leader and I love the sport on this. Absolutely. Thank you. Thank you. Apologize for missing new the next item on our agenda proposal. Number one, 43 reappoint Craig meant to the Indianapolis City Market
Corporation board apologize, Investment high pronounce his last name. Please step forward and let us know why in arrests and continue to serve in this capacity. Hello, everybody. Craig men's a very excited to continue the capacity of serving on the board of the Indianapolis City markets. A very exciting time to be involved in the city market, making sure that it finds its way into the next iteration of itself. So very excited. Thank you. Questions from counselors. With Is there anyone audience that wishes to speak to propose a number one? 43. Cnn, a entertain a motion so their second, the motion properly moved. And second, all those in favor signify by saying aye, those opposed same sign the motion carries. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you for your willingness to serve. The next item on our agenda proposal. Number one for one. 44 reappoint Nora
Spitz Nogal to the City Mark Corporation board directors. Again, if I mispronounced your name, please correct I should know things by now. Sure why in arrests and continue serve this capacity. Yes, Tigers, that's not all. I would love to continue. I'm a longtime board member and I'm also a former tenant in the market from Cap Coffeehouse that actually close 20 years ago. But the market excuse me is still close to my heart and I'm excited for the next chapter in the market. History. Wonderful questions counselors. Is there anyone in the audience that wishes to speak to proposal number one? 44. Seeing none. You're 10 in motion. Is there a second? Investment properly moved? And second, all those in favor signify by saying Aye. Those opposed same sign the motion carries. Thank you very Just to serve. The next item or agenda because the number one
for 5 of statement a benefit. Kimball Electronics in Annapolis the applicant of and applicant for tax. I can't talk for tax abatement for property located economic revitalization area. Good evening. MADAM Chair. And they deserve the committee. I'm Cathy Battle program manager for economic incentives with metropolitan with the Department of Metropolitan Development this evening, we're joined by representatives who can do electronics. Indiana. We're going to present a project seeking the approval of the statement of benefits in connection with a 6 personal property tax abatement request the supports and investment of
34.1 million and is located at 12 20 south post. Well, within the South Post who wrote a location area counselor Hurt who represents district crony. In Warren Township is in support of the project in at this time, I'll turn floor over to the representatives from Kimball Electronics. Thank you. Can MADAM Chair Council Hurt and Councilmember, appreciate your time Kathy next slide for me. My name is Doug Hossam, the chief legal and administrative officer for Kimball Electronics. I'm joined by playing the side of our gm over Indianapolis facility Chris want who is our global structure of safety, environmental and facilities. Can see our projects par partners on the slides that we provided for you. Kathy Hewitt, the next slide. So a little bit about Kimball Electronics, who we are, where a global manufacturer
electronic and medical products we provide engine and an engineering, divine design and manufacturing services, including here in Indiana, in Indianapolis at our medical center excellence campus on 30th Street. Contract manufacturing for medical products. If you move to the next slide, Kathy, you can some of the focus that we have on medical solutions here. It's really exciting area of growth for our business. It's really what we believe will be the engine of our growth. And that's why we're making the investment here in Indianapolis in this facility. Focused on the medical market scientific injection molding cold chain management drug delivery device, manufacturing, disposable
medical products, surgical device manufacturing, kind of high tech, you know, high demand medical manufacturing that the city, the county, the state have been seeking to attract and to grow. And then we're here. Want to help you that you can move to the next slide. Kathy, part of the reason that we've been here that we've made the investment in Indianapolis in this state is where an Indiana company, our leadership team is based here for, as you see on the slide here, 4 of our 6 leadership team members are based here in Indiana, including our ceo and why Indianapolis on the next slide. You know, again, we've been in Indiana coming from our founding. We've never
last. We haven't moved our corporate headquarters. We have a Marine Corps parade somewhere We didn't move too low tax jurisdictions. We stayed here. Campbell, in Indianapolis facility is operated under 30 a street location for 65 years and that campus. But as we grow this facility and post Road is going to enable us to more than double our size as you'll see in a couple of slides. Do it all under one roof. Number of local partnerships, just some of the partnerships to choose that you see here. We work closely, especially and workforce development at with our educational institutions to help build a stable of of of labor of skilled labor, which is what we need can next slide staying here in Indianapolis offers U.S. 207,000 Square feet under one
roof for 140,000 square in our campus now spread over multiple facility multiple buildings. It gives us access to be able to do some of the advanced medical manufacturing that our customers want us to do. Allows us to bring in more employees, especially skilled labor, which we'll talk about in the next slide and some advanced manufacturing equipment that we can that we can do in this larger facility, taller roof, larger larger square footage. Some details about the about the business. And I want to highlight a couple of things on the slide for you first. And this is why we'll talk about as well. Why this investment is so important to support that that the council can provide to us is, you know, we're making pretty substantial investment, as you
see here over the next 6 years to 56 million dollars. Plus that we're investing into this facility. In addition to the investment that hit, our has already been made. Most of that coming as you'll see at the end coming in that first year and before wherever producing anything in that facility. And so your support is is needed and greatly appreciated. He and the wage numbers that I point out here as well. Those are not overtime rates plus benefit, including benefits and everything else. That's the base. Wait wage rate. The types of positions that were hiring. These are skilled labor machine operators, engineers. That's the base rate. On top of that. It's that's there's over time. There's there's benefits on
top that these are these are very well paying jobs. Great for Marion County if you take a look at the if you move on to the next slide, Kathy? Our workforce about 46% comes directly from Marion County give you a sense of for moving quickly. We've signed the lease of knowing that the hopefully we'll have your support for this. We've gone ahead. Move forward. The lease we're doing going through permitting now and expected against construction next month. The interior of the facility to build it out for what we need. We'll take occupancy after that. The majority that construction is done in NOVEMBER and then begin manufacturing in in MARCH and will be ramping up over the next couple of years. Can kind of a breakdown of the investment here. You can see, you know, 12 25 million dollars would putting in that first year before we really even start manufacturing. The first thing. Can see the
requested abatement on the next slide. Again, this as we move to the next slide after that, this support is critical for for the project without this camp, critical support early on, we would have had to look at that other locations where might not have been able to move forward with this project. This this was the key item in and helping build support for this facility and getting our board approval getting our customers on board for this new facility. We did look at other locations. We look to locations outside of Marin County with in Indiana. We even with that locations outside of Indiana. But our strong preference, we've been here for 60 plus years. We didn't want to go anywhere. you know, that's why we landed
on this on this Post road facility. So at with that short overview, I'd be happy to entertain any questions from from the council. Thank you so much for your presentation. Questions from counselors Thank you. MADAM Chair, couple questions. One you you said you considered other locations outside of Marion County, but within Indiana, are you able to share what you saw? Were any of them like the donut counties? We did. We did look at. We looked We did look at at Donut counties. Look to Hancock County. We did look elsewhere. You know, we look really at all of kind of the donut counties around as well as around Jasper. Really, Marion County offered the best opportunity for us. And it was a matter of finding the right facility there that, you know,
they don't have 300,000 square-foot unit facilities with kind of 5 clear height that we need everywhere. So that was probably our other big challenge was just locating suitable facilities. Thank you. And then second. Questions, kind of a two-parter that you mentioned the 46% of the employees are in Marion County. So that means that more than half or not. Do you know where they are and I guess what would your thoughts be? How could we boost that number? I mean, I get you can't control where like that. That's I don't want to base number. What good number is. But that is it seems a little surprising that have to wait I. Yeah, I mean, this is just my my view. And yet, I mean, if and Randy has other thoughts on this, but it I think it's more of a
location if we were if we were downtown we're on more on the West side, the number might look different. But because we're on, we're on the east side. We're close to the county line. Naturally. We're going to draw people from some of the, you know, from some of the east side outside of Marion County as well. Most I would say that the majority, the vast majority of folks that are that work in our facility in Indianapolis are within of what, 15, 15 minutes that the average the average commute is only about 15 minutes. So we're talking about people who you know, for a large part just over the county lines, not just you do not. And it just so happens that it that it breaks roughly fifty-fifty you know, there are certainly more we We worked to try to get people to come, you know, to come into
to Marion County. You know, we want people to work. We found that people of close the facility that tend to stick stick with you a little bit longer. If they're doing an hour afternoon. It's those those don't last nearly as long. So it's it's in our interests to do that. And that's part of the reason that we partner with that we partner with the local, you know, the local universities to try to build that skilled labor pipeline that we need. Additional questions. Will counselors later heart? Comments and then a little context fellow council he was saying. You I watched the traffic studies a lot on Washington Street. It's a you know, major through. They're my district. And there's a 33,000 cars, a bi-directional but go from Hancock County to Marion County. Every every single day. And that number's
up 10,000 of the last 10 years. So it's continuing to grow. And, you know, my assumption of why that is because they're probably in Hancock County, which, you know, I think this is a positive development in the sense that we also really big. Boom of speculative development over the last few years, especially during covid time where I'm grateful that you settled on Marion County and not Hancock County because there our ac of these right outside the county line on 600 that I'm grateful that you are here not there, but I still have to drive by those might take my son to any rate. It's a good use the facility and especially in the fact that it's not. Another logistics facility, which is another concern that we get especially, you know, up and down post road. We consider traffic is a lot of residential traffic there, too. As you are bordering
commercial and residential. So, you know, I am supportive of this because it is bringing a number of good job. You don't see a lot of that. I'm talking about some of the developments that are significantly larger than this with significantly less jobs. And so that is a good amount of people really get a lot of people to bring into the area one thing out support sport you guys but also ask you to support the district. Right? So you're coming into an area that has Warren Township schools that the Walker Center phenomenal area to start cooking relationships growing pipeline, future employees as well. So a lot of smart kids there, but also look for your help, Ro economic development on Washington Street. There's a limited amount of places for people to eat. Whenever there. So we that liver. They're always looking for more more more reasons to. And so having
300 people now working, their should help when they get bored of DoorDash option. So overall, I am super super happy guys in their support of the project look forward to building relationships with you as your district councilor. Addition question. Thank you, MADAM Chair. My question is related to that care procedurally, what we're voting on this evening. Are they gonna need to come back to the council for a tax abatement or is all of that included in the vote this evening? Thank you. Speak to that. And so for this evening, we only need the approval of the statement of benefits. Then they will go before the mdc. For the actual tax abatement. But we need the approval of the statement of benefits before they can go before the nbc for the final. And you will they be sorry,
will they be coming back to the council after their next appearance at the nbc? No, this should go before the full full, I believe in JUNE and then they will go to the nbc. The final hearing will be after that vote, but they will not need to come back here. This is only for the statement of benefits to be approved. Additional comments. Is there anyone audience that wishes to speak to proposal number one? 45? Cnn, I entertain a motion. Is there a second? And most of that properly moved. And second, all those in favor signify by saying Aye. Those opposed same sign the motion carries. Thank you so much. I just want clarify, maybe MADAM Director, one of the law. So traditionally once a proposal goes to nbc, it makes
his way back to the full Council. What are we missing? So this is a bit different. So typically tax abatements don't come before you all. And they just go to the Metropolitan Development Commission because this is located in a tiff district. The poster tif district that was nearly created last year has to come before you all for the statement benefits. But it will. The tax abatement itself will be approved by the Metropolitan Development Commission. Thank you so much. You're welcome. The next item on our agenda, proposal, number one for 6 approves a payment in lieu of taxes. A pilot for Grant for ad and lp for it Affordable 94 unit Housing, Project finance and part with low-income housing tax credit credits to be located at 34 70 North
Meridian Street in District 8 and according court with icy 36 dash 3 dash, 2 dash, 1, 2, Fletcher's. Thank you. MADAM Chair and council members. Well, you have before you is a pilot request for Grand Meridian, twg development of 94 units. We affordability in this as well as supportive services for the residents. Today we have Marissa can Astor who is the senior development director at twg to present the details. We also have our special counsel Creed evolved. Scott result here. If you have any questions in regards to the legal structure. Marissa, just tell me when you want me advance.
Thank you. Cheri. Good evening. MADAM Chair, other councilors. My name is Marissa cannot twg development. They're excited to be here this evening to share about our upcoming project Grand Meridian. And tell you a little bit about the role it will play in enhancing the neighborhood and creating affordable housing. While they're getting that set up continue talking. So I'm a senior development director wg to lead to development specializes in affordable workforce and market rate housing development were separated into 2 teams and I oversee our affordable and workforce housing development here in Indiana. So I've been
on Green Meridian quite some time now trying to get everything cued up and ready to go. And in my position, I focus on new construction. Positioned rehabs and historic rehabilitations. So it wg we do have a lot of success with projects in the preservation of historic buildings and adapting them to meet modern Ian's up on the screen here, I have a photo of one of our previous affordable housing developments of a historic building. 800 capital exterior renovation and some really nice interior units. All right. So Grand Meridian was originally built in 1951. At the time it was bill. It was one of the area's best places to live since then. Unfortunately, it vacant for
over 20 years and has seen a lot of blight distress. And unfortunately, a lot of vandalism. However, our goal is to transform the site to be even better than it once was. The building is located in a really gray area. Conveniently situated along the red line which offers easy access to employers, services and entertainment. We think the grim ready and has a ton of potential not just for future residents, but also for the vitality of the surrounding area. We're very grateful to have received the support from key community organizations, including the Crown Hill Neighborhood Association. The Mapleton Fall Creek Community Development Corporation and Midtown Andy Community Development Corporation. After Construction Grand Meridian will consist of 94 affordable housing units offered at 30, 50 and 60% of the area. Median
income. When the building building was originally constructed, it was comprised of 100 units made up of studios and one-bedrooms in our effort to preserve the original floor plans and keep intact the internal historic elements. We've decided to maintain all but 6 of those units, those additional 6 units will be converted into amenity space for the residence. To bring this redevelopment a life or capital stack includes a variety of funding sources. We're incredibly grateful to have received the support the Department of Metropolitan Development. We were granted an award of arpa funds to is to assist in the acquisition of the building, which was a really key part in making this project work. We've also received awards for low-income housing tax credits through
the Indiana housing Community, Indiana, Housing and Community Development Authority along with an award of historic tax credits from the National Park Service, some additional funding that has come in as a development fund. Some funding from the federal Home Loan Bank of Indiana. And then also stir some permanent financing through our financial partners at merchants. Beyond just a living space. We're investing in amenities that will improve our residents quality of life. Just a touch on a few will have an on site learning Center which will have computers and access more than 20 different on demand. Learning courses and career certifications. We'll have a fitness center which will include course equipment available to residents at all times. But also some really
great workout classes. We're opening up the community room to impd for them to use for officers as a rest stop if they need to decompress. Wright reports grab a snack. Have their lunch is the restroom. And just overall, bill camaraderie with our residents to break any sort of gap that there MAY getting police into the community. As we move forward with the project you're seeking a pilot agreement which we are requesting to start and 2027. That's when construction will be fully completed on our first full year of Operation. The pilot would be in place for 15 years, starting at $10,050 for the first payment and increasing annually at 3%. In exchange, we're committing to maintaining a affordability
of the property for 40 years and providing a range of support of services for residents to achieve long-term success. Services that will be offered have been designed to empower residents to thrive, whether they're focusing on health, education, career or financial goals. We've broken down into 3 main categories that are listen up on the screen, which include are empowered Living program, Academic Excellence program and Balanced living initiative. One part of our balance living initiative that is really cool is that we will actually have on site hydroponic planters, indoors to grow produce year-round for residents to have free of use. Looking ahead, we anticipate starting construction in just
a few weeks. The construction timeline will take about 12 months, which will put us at completion and the summer of 2026. And we will begin pre leasing about 3 months before construction is completed. So we have residents ready to move in as soon as that's completed. In closing green Meridian is not just about creating housing. It's about fostering a thriving community where residents can live grow and succeed. We're really excited about the future of the project and are seeking this pilot to maintain financial stability for the project for the next 15 years. Thanks again for your time. And I'm happy happy to answer any questions. Thank you so much for your presentation. Council Gibson. Thank you, MADAM Chair. I very pleased that this project is in my district I support this
payment in lieu of taxes for a variety of reasons. One of the fact we need more housing in particular need affordable housing. I want to applaud your efforts with Stan Diligent in this process. And I understand it was it was time consuming and you you never gave up. And I appreciate your efforts there. And it shows and the presentation today. Also, I think it's important note that this bill will maintained out stop outside structure low, correct. And you're just renovated inside to to to make nice affordable housing, correct? That's correct. Yes. So the interior interior will be fully got it completely. Now on the exterior will be getting rid of theirs up, broken down car port in the back, removing some of the blighted materials from the
exterior that are not historic related. The building facade itself is historic. So we will be removing any graffiti or vandalism from the exterior. And then just ceiling the exterior to maintain the historic city. Stuart significance and then doing full like landscaping plans and beautification of the art around it to enhance the property. Exciting definitely enhance look in the neighborhood, but also the quality of life there as well. I want focus bit on your partnership neighborhood Associations and Community Development Corporation, which is significant. You you laid out a partnership with him directly to actually enhance growth opportunities in the communities. That correct? That's correct. Yes, I've been
working very closely with the Crown Hill Neighborhood Association along with the 2 cdc's to figure out what we can do better for our residents for surrounding properties. And we're actually making some contributions to beautify some of the other surrounding areas and the neighborhood. So we're really excited to continue working with them. Well, thank you for that. Said a lot about your company thank you again. Thank you. Additional questions, Sir. Thank you. MADAM Chair, can you clarify on this the 40 year I mix is is any portion of this incremental due to the pilot or is that already baked into the terms for the long? As far as the affordability period. Yes. So what the affordability period that is
tied to the low income housing tax credits. So with those we had to commit to 15 years of affordability and then we took the extra step of committing an additional 25 years on top of that for the 40 years. But but I get just to clarify that hypothetically, if if this pilot didn't with this, still look the same or is the pilot. The reason we're getting either a longer term or a bigger higher number of units. What's I see? Yes, so the pilot is the pilot is tied to the support of services that we are offering. Residents. Sony of the learning opportunities, growth initiatives. Those are tied to the pilot. The affordability period will still remain no
matter what thank you. Thank you, MADAM Chair. And this MAY be a question for director because it's just. Don't oppose all that often. Just to refresh or does this mean that it using the term payment in lieu of taxes? There are no property taxes paid on this property for this duration or what which was which part is the Well, good evening counselors. My name is Scott Frizzell and attorney was quick fall. So the in Louisa Property tax exemption so that this pilot authorizes the property owner to seek a property tax exemption under Indiana code 6 dash 1.1 dash dash 16.7 so they would receive 100% property tax exemption and then make these pilot payments directly to the city. And that's for how many years it would be for 15 years, 15 years. I guess that wasn't included in here. What that much of the 15 years was
what's the calculation of? If you were paying taxes, property taxes on these units for 15 years. What's that amount make versus what your payment Yes. Give me just a moment here. So I do not have for the 15 year total, but I do have an example if we were to pay full property taxes without the pilot for the first year. That estimated tax payment would be 56,000. But you don't have it over the full 15, I don't have a calculated over the full 15 year period at this time. We would be looking at approximately in 80 to 85% discount on taxes over those 15 so I'm not here pick on you guys by any means, but just raise a point of awareness as we move forward as a council
as a body, that this is something, you know, projects like these will have to take into consideration. Is that best left up to partners like twg or our city to run some of these services as my colleague notified. It's not us that's providing the affordability piece. It's the state tax credits that are providing and so if we're substantially abating, property taxes over a 15 year period. Intrade offer you providing some little community services. You know, the thing that we're going to have to keep an eye on is that because of the recent Senate bill, we have to start looking at our county income taxes differently. And so are we going to conversations are going to around that and what conversations do we need to have here on approval of projects like this? Now I'm not asking for any change of
heart at this moment, but something considered for future projects because we've been talking to our director of Dmd because it's something that we have to consider as the council as the financial arm of the city. You know how we make up the rest of the services. So I appreciate the clarification. But just the point I want to make MADAM Chair. Yesterday, lady. If I make one comment. So it cda does have sections in their application that award points to each project that received the support from the municipality. And so this is take factored into receiving a credit allocation to the project that there's a pilot in place for the project. Counsel. Do anything Que? Thank you, MADAM Chair your side that's titled On-site
Support of services who will be managing that? I assume that twg doesn't have an expertise in these areas and then how long are you planning on providing this programming? Yes. So the services will be overseen by a core certified provider knots, regulation through the state that we're following called Rainbow housing. And so the Rainbow housing is the. Oversight of that. We're currently working with the Crown Hill Neighborhood Association and the cdc's to connect us with some other local nonprofits that could come in and really boost up the services to make sure that there. Complete as possible with the services that are being offered to residents. We have a community benefits agreement which says
that every least 3 to 5 years, the services are reviewed to see how resident participation is looking, what services of most beneficial. What services should we replace? I'm still be ongoing for the 15 years and the pilot to make sure that we're providing full services that accessible and useful to the residence. Thank you. And I think that. Councilor hearts questions sort of complimented what I was already thinking. So I thank him for those questions because I kind of have a better understanding now of where the money's going to be applied. And thank you. Additional questions. Bill counselors. Is there anyone in the audience that wishes to speak to proposal number one for 6? Cnn, entertain a motion. 2 0nd the most of And second, all those in favor signify by saying Aye. Those
opposed same sign motion carries. Thank you. Thank you. The next item on our agenda proposal. Number 1, 6, 7, approve transfer $10,000 in the 2025 budget of the Marion County recorders Office for the replacement Printing equipment. MADAM Record of the floor is yours. Taking that into a council. Thank we are for a a missing to get a of because what people All right. To do this to you can make it. It's just the right one. If you It's great That's there. I stopped. Part of pace know keep it. Good afternoon. Council members. So I believe most of you have a copy of the
presentation in front of you. If you turn over to the page one, basically shows a breakdown. Car characters, character, 3 and character for which we are. Thank you. There we Excellent. So if you look at the Middle column, you will see this is our 2025 budget allocation both character, 3 and character for. If you look at the far the very last call, this is our balance as of the end of last month. So as you can see, we plenty of funds to be able to transfer the $10,000 from character, to care Next page is a copy of the invoice for the vendor that we're going to use. This vendor has been vetted by purchasing department. Not only but approved as the proper vendor to go through
for this particular equipment. And I'm not really sure what's going on with the presentation, but I think you get the idea. So this is a copy of our. Next to a copy of with the new Michael scanner. Look the primary use of the scanner. By the way, we use this every day in office, but it's primarily used for searchers and also surveyors who need to find records prior to 1961. So all of our documents are actually skews me digitized to 18. 22. But they're only index to 1961, which means they can search online. To 1961. Anything prior to that. They're going to have to go and use the microphone scanner to find and make copies of those documents. So that is that we're just requesting for that fiscal transfer. And at this
time to take any questions, if you have Thank you so much. Questions for counselors. Yes, cancer. Thank you. MADAM Chair, just it. Just out of curiosity, hear what you're saying about the digitization of searching have has there been this seems like I know everyone talks eyes like does all these magic things. But this seems like a really good thing where it's already digitized. Has there been any discussion about? But I don't want service. There would be because there'd been a discussion about using that to bridge that gap from whatever you're talking 18. 22 to 19. So that that's that's a great question. And yes, there are discussions. More more more vendors are coming out now with advanced ai technology that we're looking into,
actually, even as soon next year. We still want to be able to have the microfilm scanner gap as well. Just because needs to Okay. Thank you yes. Additional comments. Questions from counselors. Is there anyone in the audience that wishes to speak to proposal number 1, 6, 7, Cnn, entertaining motion. Lesson in propping and second, all those in favor signify by saying Aye. Those opposed same sign. The motion carries. Thank you so much for presentation. The next item on our agenda to pose a number 1, 6, 8%, know procreation totaling 1 Million 914. $25 in the 2025 budget the Department of Metropolitan Development in various funds for the purposes funding the cost associated with property tax capital
repairs of Dmd owned properties. Central say Central state section 108, debt. At 35 15 east washington infrastructure development within the Lafayette Square area. And the the floor is yours. Thank you. Leader Louis. My name is Megan, but it. I'm the director for the Indianapolis Department Metropolitan Development. And I'm joined by Lucas Anderson, who is our chief financial officer and chief operating officer for Dmd as well. Going to get the presentation pulled up. Also should have a printed copy in front of you. So I will start running through the line items that are being presented on for the spring Festival for the Department of Metropolitan Development. First, as we have a few items related to the former Lafayette Square Mall and revitalization and investments happening in that area. So the first request is for $100,000
to support these revitalization efforts. It's really to contract with the right folks to better understand the fiscal implications interview infrastructure needs as we explore redevelopment area efforts in that area. So that will be that appropriation. We also have $350,000 set aside for a housing project located at 3, 9, 1, 9 Lafayette Road. This is being called the promenade at the square. This went there are affordable housing pipeline and is located in this district. And so we are using the resources available to help them. Close their gap on that project. They were also awarded a low-income housing tax credit. And so we want to see that move forward as And then lastly, for the Lafayette Square Mall improvements, we
are requesting funding $650,000 that would go towards the design and construction of a trail along Mueller Road. So b, from 38th to Mueller way, and this is being supported by the international market place stakeholders. And I do think there are a few people in the audience related to that group that are here in support of that project. All 3 of those projects are coming from the formal. They're located in the former community revitalization enhancement district will be called Acree District along Lafayette Road. And so all those efforts are being supported by the previous funding that was allocated to this district. So we wanted to make sure that the funding that was generated from that district was used to support projects in that area.
And so that is the funding source that is why we are able to allocate that funding for those projects. The 4th item that is listed environmental remediation efforts at 3, 5, 1, 5, East, Washington Street. This is what is known as the Black Mountain site. So this is a previously industrial property. That was a recycling facility that had contaminated the site with over 120,000 tons of foundry sand in 2020 for the city received a legal settlement from the party that was liable for that foundry sand for remediation efforts. So this funding of 304 $1025, it's going to be used for that. The further remediation
of that site along with funding from the Indiana Department of Environmental Management and in Indiana Finance Authority, all of those sources put together will allow us to fully remediate the site and make it suitable for redevelopment. So this will kind of be the mediation effort for that site to get it back into productive use. And that is coming from the funding source on that is a brownfield fund so could only be used for brownfield remediation This is one that we've been out for quite a long time. And then 5th on this list is funding for payment on the central state. Section 108, loan. So this was a loan for infrastructure
improvements out it out at Central State. These have been completed. And so this appropriation is just to pay down that loan balance and then lastly, we are asking for $150,000 for property tax payments on parcels out at town and Terrace. We have recently acquired several properties out at that development and are in receipt of tax bills that need to be paid. And so we're asking for allocation of funds to build the pay. Those. I'm happy to answer any questions. Thank you so much for your presentation. Questions comments, counselors accounts are Thank you, MADAM Chair. I have 2 questions for the director. The first one relates to the Black Mountain site. And do you know the value of still an eminent from what you said? It sounds like
we received. A payment from the lawsuit. A judgment in our favor as the city. Is that true? And if so, how much? Counselor request appropriation of $304,025 is completely re appropriated. The amount from that settlement 2024, I think we might a left all $0.33 off the top my head, but it's round to that amount. Thank you very much. And they want to. Thank the city legal team for using our legal resources to try to recoup that. I feel like often, you know, we're short on resources in the city things just kind of slide through the want to thank our legal team for doing that. Question. Number the funding for the central state payment. The way that you explain, it sounds like it was something that you knew you might have to be making. So I was
wondering why wasn't previously included in the budget? We're you know why we're re appropriating money now in the middle of the year. It's counselors. So at the end of we were in a situation to where we would have had funds clawed back by the federal government through our community development block, grant or cdbg dollars from the Department of Housing and Urban and Urban Development. Functionally a section want to wait. Loan is a related program. So in order to ensure that we did not lose that funding as well as to try to lessen the debt burden on interest in future years on that loan, we saw an opportunity to work with the office of Financial Management to pay down that debt, which was an early JANUARY 2025. Opportunity, which we would have had to we would have had an opportunity to include that
in the annual budget process. Additional questions, comments will counselors. Yeah, I just got 1, 1, quick thing to say. It's I'm excited for the Lafayette Square Mall group the district councils where the Washington Square Mall. I feel your pain I hope it's it's going better over there. But there's a central organizer representative within your group. I love to share my contact with the after this. We can talk more because we're going through the same for support of what's going on. Thanks Additional questions counselors. Cancer doing MADAM Chair, or is it proper to recognize the group that's here from violence to speak? So thank you.
Counselors. And okay. Now to our guest in audience. Anyone we like to come and speak on. The proposal 68. Please state your name. MADAM Yes, word. Wish to read most It's it's ok, read it. Go ahead. Hello. My name is Joan Service and I am a business owner in the Lafayette Square area. And I do feel your pain and we have been working together and with knew White pastor Doctor Mark Brown of new rights can church along with the 2 men. More at new winds can church pastor and then jet Bart, that many of you MAY know from Wayne Township Trustee's Office and Ted Grain. We all know we have a nose. Said hi to everyone in
lobby then I don't We also have Katie DeLay, who's the PRESIDENT Of in last a charter school. But this we have a much bigger group that has come together to work on safety on 38 Street Road for pedestrians. We have a lot of people and I'm also on the board of Ego Down neighborhood a city council member there, City County Council. So we have all been concerned. And I think what I always say about these areas of light. And my father, Burt would have said to be like cancer, you don't need to fix those problems. And I'm yearning what I see. Everybody jumping over Marion County to develop Greenfield. We we should be focusing on
rehabilitating and read developing these areas. And I know downtown is great, but we have to drive through Lafayette Road to get downtown or 38 to get to Meridian to. Thank you very much for considering this. It really means a lot to all of us. Thank you so much. Is there anyone else in the audience that wishes to speak to proposal number was 68? End. Hi, I'm Kay DeLay. As John mentions. It It director at and lots academy where k through 8 public charter school right at 38. The Mueller and why this is so meaningful for us is because 80% of our students of within 2 miles of our school and many of them walk. We partner with APIs Public Library. See all of our library cards this year. And even though the library is less than half a mile from our school, they
cannot safely access it. And so the talking to our kids about how excited they are to access the library, the books and all the programming. And so many of our family say, like, hey, we just can't get there because of transportation. So investing in pedestrian walkways. And on the West side, not only benefits, although beautiful different shops other in the areas, but also directly benefits our students and impacts literacy as well. So thank you for considering. Thank you so much. Additional comments regarding proposal. Number one, 68. Yes, leader heart. So I can do overcome with emotion. And this is I mean, he's a phenomenal things. The iq these are things we say all the time. I'll continue shot over a
mountain top. I mean, even I know, counselor, matter is that residents and because it was coming here and in his district that they can't read, write their bike to the library down in Franklin Township. So we see all these things across Marion County the time we talk about the township's a Marion County. I say it every single day that I'm talking to somebody is that there is more than Indianapolis and just center township. So nothing negative about center township. But we've got a whole lot of people that live outside and those other townships. And we got to keep making sure that they have focus as well. So thank you for all your comments from of the ladies. It's no comments from the audience or counselors. Seeing none. Entertain a motion. Is there a second that and most of problem second, all those
in favor signify by saying aye, those opposed same sign the motion carries. Thank you so much. For your presentation and those in the community. Thank you for your commitment to this area. The last item on our agenda proposal, number 1, 6, 9, a prison official appropriation totaling 3 million in the 2025 budget for Department of Business. A neighborhood services capital asset Lifecycle in Development fund for the purposes of funding. The costs associated with approving local alleyways. And directed the Florida All right. Good evening, MADAM Leader, numbers of the committee. My name is Abby Brands on the director for the Department of Business Neighborhood Services. Joining
me this evening as Eva Flick, Deputy director of administration and finance do believe this is going to be one of her last public appearances. So I wanted to make her come up here with me and then yeah, for for a little bit. Yeah. And then we have Caitlin Morgan, our accounts liaison joining us as well proposal. One 69 is related to our Ali Mitigation program the slide. So since we don't come before this body too often, we want to take the opportunity to give you an update on the program. So as you know, this was a data-driven We wanted to assess all different data sets to see where the best intersection was as far as illegal dumping. And Ali repair needs. So there's kind of 4 pillars there as far as how these how this program has run. And essentially we have program management, we
contract with American structure plan and I've been transparent with this body that we actually got phase one started a little later because we wanted to make sure that we have the right program manager that align with our goals. Anderson. We're trying to do. So. They provide civil civil engineering services. They do core samples. They help us with the bedding. And yes, even a little permitting, although maybe not as much as some other vendors There's also been just the cleaning effort far as cleaning up the illegal dumping. We've been utilizing on one of our illegal dumping vendors allied services there e a veteran-owned business. And so we love being able to partner with them in a greater way. Then there's the construction itself. The bid was awarded to county and that's this last round. And they've been a
terrific partner and then finally brush clearing for each of the alleys. As you can imagine, just being able to get machinery in and out. We need to clear a lot of trees or just brush overhang and dpw. Forestry has been a tremendous partner in that regard. It's kind of like a trading of resources, if you will. So phase one segments. You can see there, we had 19 to 20 segments. I say that because we ended up finding out that one of our final segment ended up having a good portion of private property. So we weren't able to. Prioritize in the same way that you can see there. I think all that are completed and those 6 will be completed next week. Before the end of next week. Yeah. So they're supposed to be completed last
week, but there was rain. And so the concrete didn't have time to cure. So all alleys will be complete for phase one by next week. So what are we coming for today? So phase one and phase 2, we said that this would be a 5 million dollars three-year program. Phase one, like I said, will be complete before the next week. And so we're hoping to kick off phase too soon. It's a little difficult to slice and dice the numbers as far as what we've spent to date because by that table, it looks like there hasn't much but the structure point, quote, is approximately $200,000. The Calumet quotas, 1.8 And so they've invoiced us as work has come along. But expect a lot of those invoices will come in within the next week or 2 before the end of the month. So that's kind phase one total will be just over 2 Million. The cleaning pushed just a little bit over. So faced who are looking at
approximately 2.9 That's not 2.9 just for alleys. Again, this is illegal dumping mitigation. And so a lot of that will go towards a lot of that. But some of that will go towards program management. Some of that will go towards cleaning. We ran into more tree issues than we thought we might with this last round. So we anticipate including something relating brush clearing and maybe tree removal and that the next bit as well. But we'll talk a little bit phase 2 and a couple slides. So just wanted to provide a few before and afters just so you can see very rewarding to see this investment in Valley is going to come to life. I am an east side or so being able to drive to the east side and see alleys that I grew up around underinvested. And now just beautiful concrete. It's it's
been wonderful to see. So I just wanted to share some of those before. And after some guys. So the phase 2 plan. As I mentioned, will have approximately 2.9 million. But some of that will be going to the just the general program facilitation. We want to be conservative and cautious with the second phase and the reason for that is because we don't want to come back for additional dollars. We want to be able to live within what we said. This program would cost and working with our vendors. There are concerns about bids coming in higher this next round. Just given what's going on with lately. And so we have already selected another 15 alleys and provided those to our civil engineer. Let's take a look at and so they're doing their initial assessment, which is essentially does this require any storm water remediation, which would then
be incredibly expensive and likely taken off the list? Is this actually a brick alley in some places which would make it incredibly expensive and take it off of the list. And additionally taking core samples as well. So really drilling down and seeing where dollars going to be best That's not to say that 15 is that definitive number. It could end being a little bit more a little bit less. But the other thing we really want to do with the second phase is also hold back some of the money just for illegal dumping cleanup. So it has been really great having it this proactive approach, but we still find ourselves in a reactive space, especially when it comes to our dpw. And that's nothing against dpw. That is just sometimes the hot potato back and forth when it comes to illegal dumping in the right
of way or private property. And that's kind of sending these cases back and forth. And I know I've experienced the frustration of when that happens. And you know, when we go out and we just debate something, we don't have anybody to cite reading that cost. And we're happy to do that from time to time. But, you know, those funds added up. And so by holding a little bit of this back in order to partner with dpw, I think we have the opportunity to make this a bit of a more equitable program. So yes, we'll still be targeting alleys. Us will still be targeting the hottest, you know, illegal dumping spots and the intersection with rallies, but will also have a little funding so that when a council reaches out and says, look. There's this illegal dumping here and it's been going back and forth because it's right adjacent to private private property right of way. We can
say don't worry about it and go get cleaned. So I'm really happy to see that we can kind of balance in proactive way and still a reactive way. But still supporting our dpw because they can use the support. So with that, that's the general presentation. It has been wonderful being able to invest dollars back into our community. Bns is not typically the department that gets to do that. And so having that opportunity has been really great. Witnesses, anything new better. Thank you so much for your presentation and your leadership. MADAM Director, questions comments from councilors house Thank you, MADAM Chair and thank you, This is really great this little bit out. My wheelhouse. I don't is my my council not
as familiar guess with the kind of the logistics of improving them out of curiosity with these improvements like this kind of a mix of things, are improvements focused on kind of little dumb thing? Is it that you want a beautification prudence? Here is more free servicing. I mean, obviously know there's a little bit of, as you said, hop data between resurfacing deep wbns. Where does the prairie really come in? Where the improvements really focus on? Thank you. So that opportunity tween us is more about illegal dumping and that's the core of this program. It's really looking at what are ways that we can be reinvesting some of our fund back into the community in a way that is going to proactively address some of issues that we're constantly having to re actively
addressed. You know, and so we have seen that there is intersection between illegal dumping and alleys across the city. And it's an easy place where people can just throw mattresses GOD knows what else or even just trash falling over and staying in the alley and when you have these segments of right away that been so under invested in. They can easily become just a dumping ground. And so by cleaning those up and reinvesting in those spaces, we're getting that right of way in body of life back to these neighborhoods. And yes, there's a little bit of beautification, but it's more creating an area that hopefully curbs that behavior going forward and were able to limit that in some of these neighborhoods. Just to clarify real quick, though, but us are
doing resurfacing on these projects to write. You're servicing. And I think it's great personally, kind of killing 2 birds, one stone while you're there. And a really good use of of effort to really try to consolidate all that worked to try to make all in one side. It's really great. You're doing Council Gibson. Thank director brands and of several. I have lots alleys in my district Soho. I appreciate very much. It exciting to see improvements. And I just want to say thank you very much. This goes a long way and showing the difference that we can make in the quality of life. Kudos to you and your entire department. Questions. Comments. Additional question. Comments. Is there anyone audience that wishes to speak
to propose a number 6, 9, Seeing entertain a motion. There a second? Most been properly moved? And second, all those in favor signify by saying Aye. Those opposed same sign the motion carries. Thank you again for your presentation. Seeing no other in front of this community. All of that motion for adjournment. We are adjourned.