call the Mee in order order Pledge of Allegiance I pledge aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the rep for one nation under God indivisible
with liberty and justice for all Scott was just so excited yeah thank you Scott for leading that that's great no problem I'm I'm a normal natural leader baritone there yeah soothing baritone consider approval of
[Music] agenda make a motion to approve the agenda second motion's been made and second to approve the agenda all in favor say I iOS carried consider approval of April 15th minutes now second motion's been made
and second to approve the minutes of April 15 2024 all in favor say I I opposed carried consider action on award of business Improvement grant program
applications thank you chairman uh we had 13 applications total as part of the grant program that we put out uh we'll need to have a little discussion on how we want the hand uh one grouping of five the other were
pretty individual touch on that first right away so received a so we have the property down on shim cor it's the multi tenant building on the west side of shim
cor and they came to me and they said we really want to replace our parking lot that's old and it's in need of replacement and they ask do we submit one Grant application or do we set submit multiple the reason they asked
that is it's set up like a kind of like an HOA time share kind of thing where there's communal ground and then there's individually owned spaces so look this is not handled well by our grant program
we didn't spell it out and this is all part of the going through the grant program process is you have your first iteration you find out stuff that works well and other stuff that didn't get covered as well and we adapt going forward so uh we have five of the applications that came in
under this uh program and they asked me and I said I don't know the program doesn't handle it well so just everybody submit single applications and we'll put her in front of the board and we'll talk about it so they physically own each individual spot yes so this entire space
is Mayor business centers Incorporated oh and then if you click on each this one is mayor uh Minnesota business leasing Adam metal has this one they do own them though okay other people other ones so they own the
individual spaces here it's like collaborative $188,000 project yep so the park entirety of the parking lot is 188,000 so the question becomes do they get 10,000 or do they get
50 y with five applications would think it would be unfair being the first grant program to award everything we have to one spot one space Nick can you remind me what we put
out for requirements yes right like when we put this out what were we looking I thought it was beautification so can you remind me of what we had talked about because that
was a long time ago yep so up here I've got the grant program itself uh we have eligible project costs year awnings and canopies Mason rework Windows Doors entryways and thresholds sidewalks aprons and curbing uh continuing down that
list and then parking lots originally had the maintenance side of things and the ineligible project cost but then the board decided to move the entirety of parking lot related up to eligible cost so new construction reconstruction Mill overlay seal coating
patching striping and the like basically all parts of a parking lot are eligible as part of this then there's restoration rehab work roofing a lot of stuff the rest is
mainly down to things that aren't nailed down work inventory working capital acquisition type of uh stuff so then we get down um into the portion where the scoring happened so the alignment with
program purpose and goals uh we had 20 points for that assessment of how the purpose Improvement aligns with the purpose of stimulating private investment and high quality enhancements uh won read one each one individually uh
those are the remaining ones in the point Valle associated with that that guides the scoring process and we could probably after we go through this probably at our next meeting think about how we want to tweak this program so it works better in the future just continue
that process well yeah it's hard because I mean you can't really award one without the other in that facility because they're all based basically asking the same thing right and then okay so let's
say we give them $2,000 towards it they're not what if they don't do it right then well that's fine I mean I guess we keep our $2,000 but then I feel bad can we go back and readdress then the people that
did apply right but I think what we need to do is go through each application based on our point system here and determine who gets the most points and then we start with right what that
looks like yep so I wanted to bring up the multilex there just we're thinking about as we go through the scoring process exact is that how's that going to tie in to the whole picture um we can go from there well I think we
need to look at as one because the Chad's point you know maybe be like if me and Tom order had a building that we were together in but I own the front half and he owned the back half and but everybody has to use the
parking lot from Tom's to get to back my back parking lot and Tom says that he needs a new parking lot and then I need a new parking lot I get the Grant and Tom doesn't well then Tom's not going to do the parking lot so why the heck would I do mine you got drive through a crap
you want to get to mine so if you segment it out and break it out number one are they going to do it then if they only get 10,000 of the 50 that they were expecting because of the five applicants at one so then why waste the money and taking it out of the pool right so we
can use that as an assumption that they would not go forward they could argue that point that well we would we would just take a saw a saw with a diamond blade and cut the asphalt on the little section of our property um because these are really
little Lots when you go and look at the building it's overall size they aren't very very wide the lots that they have there no but like one owns four you know conjoining another one owns a couple you
know yeah yeah really can't so wouldn't they even look kind of weird I mean consistency in Asphalt is is you know if you you do some but you don't do the other how many esal contractors tell you
that's a great idea let's do half the driveway and leave the other half driveway rotten they don't do that they do all of it right because it it'll break up you'll lose the consistency it needs to be able to hold itself together let's take that let's take two
those two contrasting scenarios yours that you just had the two people versus the M here how much money would you get and how much money would this get is this 50 in you're 20 or is it 10 10
10 10 per property 10 per property so if Tom in my scenario Tom said no to his 10 but I got my 10 or these guys got their their 10 five times
right you get 10 you too you have to since it's a you get five and he gets five I see five and five or we group them in is one property get 10 this here is also 10 it's 188 I get it yeah but if
the gr grant program didn't exist you'd be paying full boat anyway right so each of the four would get 2500 yeah feel bad though you know if you do buy you know four
spots and one person has one and they're going to get 10 and you know let me contrast you one more time let's say Walmart is in town yep and they have a gigantic parking lot and they apply to the gra program how much money do they
get 10 10 right I'm not saying that's what we go with I'm just giving the different I see what you're saying because we we just happen to have we don't have a business in town with a large parking lot right we just happen to not but if
we did how would that get treated when again can we fund this because obviously we have way too many applicants and not enough money next year we what did in the because it has to be add yeah and we we originally
talked about 10 but then we also in the minutes we talked about you know they we had a discussion regarding the board discussed timelines and matters of implementation at the city council their April 8th 2024 Workshop we're open to
transferring 50,000 to the Eda okay so what that was is how would normally work is the Eda would get their two halves of the tax settlement the same time the city has so before the transfer happened the Eda had 20 grand as of today if we
just let things go we just did June tax settlement you'd have 45,000 as of today and then in December when we get the other one then you'd have your full 70 what that was is I we went to the city council ask can you
give us the whole 50 now so we can get the grant money out rather than waiting got it so when the when the taxes get paid that'll become a wash then from the city's standpoint be getting their money back basically yeah so instead of
transferring it Eda the but then next year would be different could front load again could okay would that number go up then next year it's slated at 50 you could request
more okay because what are we eligible for 70 so the how that works now is the original process was trying to Levy yourselves which there is a maximum cap
of I don't remember it's like 0 C Small percentage of the total tax base okay that produce that number I forget what it is the process we have now is that the city just gives the Eda money so technically
you could go over that limit because the city's just making a general transfer that rule doesn't really come into play Then correct because we're playing a little bit different game so we could award these some of these this year and get back to the
caveat for the ones that didn't get it and say well we're get make sure to put your application again March 1 right so 6 months from now we'll just update the application run you again so they're not completely upset because they didn't
take another run at it right all things equal I to say nothing changes you give out the money now and then early next year we' do the transfer of 50 once again City would just replenish its coffers when tax settlement comes back or more than 50 if we wanted it let's
just say 50 and then you go out for more applications and who knows how much you get that time make your decisions now could be more based upon what we get uh and that was also one thing I want to talk about since we had more ask than there was
available do we want to establish a priority order for next year the applicants not selected this year do they get preferential treatment for next year so do we have 50 or 70,000 this year we transferred 50 the Eda already
had 20 okay so we yeah total coffers is 70 but we want to leave some money in the Coffer we don't want to you know so we probably have 65 I suppose yeah Eda doesn't have that much and did we set limits I know it's a 50% match but did
we set a minimum or a maximum maximum of 10 oh as far as the I'm thinking of the bid okay of the project sorry so if you have a $5,000 project and it was eligible you get 2500 y it's 10,000 it's five if it's 20 it's
10 if it's 30 it's still 10 so do you think we should go through and rank these and see where our numbers come up because the five that we're spent 20 minutes on may not matter right yep correct let's move on to the other ones like so should we just right start
ranking them and then if they come down that they're in the top then we can figure out what we want to do yes yep if they're number four I mean call them something yeah right like or what otherwise we could sit and hash out these scenarios for a long time and come
up with something and it doesn't even matter yep I we should get to scoring for and we have to help rank order where we think we're g I have a question where is 124 Ash Avenue North yeah I had the same question Ace employment where's
that that's the old Bank oh okay yeah there's pictures [Music] on mix link can show you your question I would say no they don't rank higher next time start over yep that's what I would
say too yeah I it fair everybody in the pool y yep so here's Ace employment AG got it okay yep that's Madson yep yeah isn't this oh this is y y
so that's Ace Employment Agency okay so um got it thank you I don't know if I'm out of line or not but what kind of business are they doing do they say that on here Employment Agency par me looks like an employment agency yeah I know is
it what's in the application is what we got what you see is what you got I don't know if anybody read it but um so are they well we don't know without this and I'm assuming Michael
Madson is going to look for a tenant that's what he says is this one looking for a tenant or are they are they a business that's actually running as an employment agency already so what I'm getting at if uh babler would have came in and said
something to fix up his building that it would gain a business in town see what I'm saying look for my thing would be to look for somebody that's going to improve and get a business in town I think Michael Madson may do that with his Corner next to the post office I
would agree so that that's how I mean I don't like I said I'm not quite following our flowing but if that would say that would be like an importance because you not only you'd fix a business that could possibly be and plus it's it's looking kind of run down on Main Street so there's two there there's
appear appearance and possible future business we didn't address that when we set the parameters of the program up though because that could have maybe had a little more weight if they were going to bring a business do we have things that say weight so I won't we are not going to be making last
minute 11th Hour changes to a program that has been sent out to applicants no no no I thought we would use that as as I didn't know if it the scoring system has already been set so we just got to look at WR these maybe that's what I'm saying maybe I'm out of line that I shouldn't be looking at that value so these are the program
guidelines there's one up here uh assessment of how the proposed L purpose stimulating private investment and high quality enhancements to bolster the community's economic Prosperity mentality 20 and these are the other ones
yep that become part of that there's your job creation enhanced Aesthetics foot traffic overall economic row project impact and Community benefit you see that's where I have a problem with shim
cor is that it's not a foot traffic set of businesses right you know we're fixing a we're potentially GNA fix a parking lot that nobody's ever going to see except for the employee except for the employees that shim sh you mean shim
cor buildings or whole they don't have traffic you're talking about SIM card development right like Bradley's is a give and take business they bring their vehicles there they come pick it up you know so on and so forth that's a give and take business these aren't right they're you know foot let's just right
there's no foot traffic and that's where I'm struggling yeah you know and same with a lot of these I mean you know Employment Agency all bank right how much foot traffic is that I want to know if if if that's gonna stay is are they GNA put a business in
there do their best to put a business in there I don't know if if they're not then I'm not on board they should have put that in their narrative right but like our overall goal is to bring upgrade the building and to bring a business to town right because we're
making an application to the Eda and the goal of the Eda they have to have that acman a little bit to know that we're not just applying for a grant we're getting from the Eda which is economic development right maybe we should focus our narrative and our application regarding Economic Development I.E
bringing another business to an existing building that we have right how will this bring more Economic Development to the city no I'm not saying those guys I'm I'm going to push back on that because a two-sided coin of economic development is not only attraction it is retention
true true true so did the existing businesses that are already there that have already made invest true pay taxes y so on so forth I get it did the applicants receive the scoring yes okay so they had this they had this when they
knowing how we were GNA score them yeah so they had an opportunity to put in right or to talk about anything that would touch on these points right so I think right if we stick with what the scoring
is so what they received I've already got it open so they received it be a little bit small but they received the whole program packet they received they program guidelines
eligible applicants ineligible project eligible costs ineligible cost the process the re what we review the whole thing the whole program that we approved as well as the selection criteria as well as the application itself so they
got the whole thing perfect this is something where you know we look at the program implementation for next year we learned okay maybe we in we should have more lines that say please tell us what your existing employment
load is how many do you plan to retain how many are you plan to attract by having this what is the specific economic impact this will bring would it be quicker if we scale them on you know 1 through 10 and pick
our seat narrow down to five that way take a long time to points but yeah I think we we could personally do something like that one our our best one through five compare answers
and then see if they F and then we can negotiate from there yeah yep so for quick reference I threw this I'll throw this spreadsheet on the screen that back there so we got the business name the
address the project cost and then the grant request so as you're going through applications if you want a quick reference on that you certainly can and I do have all the applications in PDF so they we want to bringing those
up we can specifically look at those of a question uh I'll refer it to Matson not saying it's only him there's a couple others get a lot of things listed and but's say he gets into it and the floor is rotted and we put 20,000 in the floor and he burns it up and we see
nothing that's happened before by the way what it has happened before with other cities yeah happened to Lester Prairie can we say where I'd like to see it on the glass on the Frontage deter we'd like to it goes towards the project
that he submitted so if they don't have the floor specified it's not a it's not in the grant so if he opens up the floor and it turns out to be rotten and it's the
floor isn't spelled out as one of the eligible items it's not going to be eligible for grant funding and then that money would come back in and be eligible well if he does the rest of the project the first thing he says is the building
front we're just talk right now it's just generally talking about concept what happens if they open business X gets a grand for 10 grand and they have 20 grand worth of project cost existing they open up a wall and they discover five grand more
worth of work they're already maxed at 10 the wall and what's in there wasn't in the Grant application it is not eligible they would have to come up with the extra five themselves I'm just asking can we pick and say we the
frontage for sure or can't you I mean they could do looks like there's enough work there we might not even see a difference in the building I'm saying so on the back of that it's windows and doors pain exterior lighting he talked about inside but on the back
it's all exterior that's some big Windows yeah I mean you're going to see that right away 472 by 72 aluminum windows that's going to be that's going to stand out yeah that's why I'd like to or you know
just put it towards that oh absolutely yeah so he kind of has it that hey I went outside first oh he and he has H back he could do that and it could never change yeah but he already has 20 without do doing the AC we ain't going to see that I do believe he has to show receipts to so it's a reimbursement
style program so so he has to do it otherwise you don't get no money so what he puts down as things he's going to accomplish I I would say if we want to look at the concept of line item accepting things and rejecting others we save that for next year's program okay
as the the design of this is they submit a whole application and that's what they get funded they're building their financial scenarios on this can he just do the demo and the hbac and call it
good I would say no we're not going to run it that way this time now if we want to specify that for next round that we can pick and choose what we're going to fund specifically to each project but the way this was put out there is you
submit a Grant application with a total cost you break it down so we know what being funded so we can say yeah this is all eligible or you know they put inventory in there we go nope that's not eligible I don't know if Brad saying
this or might not we accept we we would prefer or we want you to do however um the first line items leave the H back out so that'll be can you pull me up butternet 203000 but you get the 23,000 part of it
done that's that's the only thing that wouldn't be involved you know in in the frontage in the lights on the roof the AC do
that right we're looking for Aesthetics yeah I mean we're still help you right I agree with you but yet it wouldn't say you have to have that done too correct you took that out of there right but there's
nothing in the program that allows you to do that you can't say you can't do HVAC no I didn't say don't you can't do it but you suggest him to take that out so he have complete these items does this saying he's GNA have to complete that or just that yes okay but if he took that
out he'd probably still get the same amount of money but that's not his Grant application okay now you're now you're editing his Grant right right right saying he has to do all of it so for example here's his Grant application he
has to do all of this if he's going to get the 10 grand oh okay I got y so he has submitted that as part of his project he is going to do all of this so if he he decides wonder if he meant that but that's time nope this is this is
what he has submitted and what he said he's going to do so if he decides like I'm not going to do HVAC I'm going to turn around and say you're not going to get grant money we're not going to reimburse because you put in the Grant application that said you would do this right he's at the top of my list me
too so he put in for all this he has to do all of this okay yep what about you guys you know where we sit who's your number one rcking on I was like I'm not there yet I hear there
he I kind of read earlier so well I did too but I didn't I don't have I have it in my head but I don't have numbers like if you're G to say you know where did you rank them I mean I can tell you who I ranked started writing numbers down I'm like I mean we
could all rank it one through 10 and just that's that's what we were doing and then we're going to kind of see how we can align them yeah I mean I'd give it a 10 I've got a column here where I did pointing but I didn't want to I did percents because it's has to equal 100
yeah so I did 70 % 65% 85% 90% is how I'm doing it yeah I just ranked whoever I thought needed the money the most well the first project what's the biggest Improvement
right that that's kind of what I was looking at and if you get some foot traffic things in there I mean right we are we are lacking some space we are definitely lacking space right but also remember we have a scoring system so even right you can't assign a 100 points
to one category when the max is 25 now again this is our first time if we afterwards we want to say well this pointing system is junk or want to go with something else we can change it we can change it for the next go around that's the glory of having the
project program in our hands is after we're done and we find out what worked well and we find out stuff that didn't work quite as well we can tweak it we have to do that after not during right well see you can't even rate like
on compliance with the program because you don't know if he's going to get the stuff done so you can't give him points oh he has to get done now well I understand that but but I'm just saying you can't really no if he doesn't get it done money goes back right even if we
give it to him he doesn't get it done well if he doesn't if a person does not do it they won't get any grant money he does because it's reimbursement we just talked about this so if he doesn't go through it this right completely he won't get it the feasibility to them
them big 72 by 72 aluminum windows that's going to be uh that's going to be a long order all right that's that's why we set it up as reimbursement style rather than front but I'm just I'm talking in with regards to the 150-day time
frame he just on those four Windows could be pushing the limits as long as they're ordered though I think you don't hold that against him right right right as long as he's moving forward with the product they're ordered yep you know
whatever what's Butternut Tree LLC do tree trimming company no that's Steve fallet what's what do they do i' been looking it up online offices it's all offices so he's doing it as a landlord yes okay yep can you just put the windows in there yeah I just redid the
whole thing but if you look at the pictures looks horrible what's needs to be done that's the back stairwell yeah it looks terrible so it says replace for original inefficient so he must not have replaced them all like he
did the front ones the back concrete's all ripped up broke up cracked up and he's put crack seal it in it but it doesn't look very good oh a major problem there it's an old building yeah here are the
photos so is that an apartment yeah it must be it's got to be it's up on the second floor are are you want to see Butternut I'm on a different one now yeah that's important also oh yeah I see yeah
that old window old style windows Yep that leak yep yeah I can see that yeah then there's that big huge crack so he's at
7740 for [Music] [Music] um Butternut Tree as far as looking at fo I know looking as far as Eda foot traffic and whatnot he did that
already that would have been a better Grant bre right which one um but oh he did all that the front he did already the stuff that I would say to do that that's probably more what what he
did with his own money is more what Michael might be doing you know that that I put more weight on that than the residential property as far as a business foot traffic I think we saw that up
there so if he would have converted the hardware store to the business center that would have been like H yeah but uh fixing up the partment part of things I don't I don't know if that's any better than uh fixing up parking
lots you know as far as fixing up a feed up parking lot behind opposite side of the fire station make things better or would the windows look better if uh that make it look better as you come through town that's I'm trying to weigh that
one any property the value keep it looking good so yeah but I mean it's not as easy as what I'm saying it's not as easy as saying oh visual you said far that first visual do we have anything would be as rough as Corner
building you also kind of look at one thing I'm going to looking at when I make my presentation is how many of these can we fund right it'd be better to do as many as we can that's what I'm looking at yeah right off the bat yeah to get people excited and and also try to um
try to keep them energize that they will the ones that didn't get it come back and do it again I guess right because they can they're encouraged to apply every year I do believe yeah right yep there's no limit no it's one Grant per year yeah so and I have one that's not
fully funded request because it would take me over 50,000 by $2,000 right so that that is a strategy is if you got 50 Grand worth of work
do 20 grand 20 grand 10 right over a threeyear period now that you're rolling dice now because you might not get funded right year right he's requesting 7,000 I got him getting 5260 I
think so three quarters of is what he wants he's getting through this Grand program he can no applicant can get more than half right he's not getting more than half he's actually getting less than half because way my math works out he can't get the full because otherwise
we have be at 52,000 instead of 50,000 so we'd have to break our own rule to say we'll go ahead and Advance another 2,000 over what we originally said there and then we don't want to be changing things at the last minute right so so I'd say on that part you have
$70,000 in your Coffer if you throw in a couple Grand and it completes a project because it's on that cusp that's a bit more forgiving than some of the other things we've discussed okay who's your number one Scott number
one is uh let's see that's in at 7700 7740 I had mat I had an 880 % but yeah I had him at 90 I had him at 90 I'm not good at M but
I have him up there my number one yeah that's all I can say number one if he's our number one then I think we give him the 10 grand he's asking for he's asking for 7740 okay then give him the 7740 yep so okay now curious when he's asking for
349 why couldn't we give him the full 10 yeah he's asking for 34950 this is what I it's the wrong application no the that's where the project project cost is the project cost is $ 34950 why wouldn't we give them the full 10 3 oh so the project his project
cost 10,000 the most he can get is 10 right from our program and he's gonna have the most impact on Main Street with his project I think if we can get that business going yep
yep so so in this here I've got total project cost now the ones down here you get are the right7 I like I know I've seen that number I know I'm like this one is Max so
little so everybody's I think in agreement 10,000 Mike Matson top prospect all right yeah he must figure out if he if he read this right he he knew he's putting in the air conditioner yep he
cuz he probably knows he has to put in AC to get there so everything listed they have to dodon everything listed in their Grant application they have to do oh if we're doing a grant bad we're putting in a mini [Laughter]
split and then some W number two I'm doing with R&V that's what I'm that was my number two oh I so I should so Tom you may need to recuse yourself you may need to recuse yourself
from this well we have three ruse myself this mine was Bob's repair was my number two Bob's was my third Bob's was my fourth my fourth
85 I scored R&B at an 80 as well room B I've got it a so Tom I we'll we'll have you recuse yourself you can look at stuff that's fine but so who do you have at two pull back I have R&V at two okay well then
R&V wins not vote three to one R&V is number two not vote full full 10,000 so R&V is are agreed upon number two yep then ironically I had core trust for number three I have a hard time going with par
lot being said notif I did too but he's also doing landscaping and everything else to I don't know right on M only got top five
and I actually had the I had Bob's repair at three Bob's repair at three I had at four I could agree with three three okay that's only 7,000 yeah I was going to say with that but that's not a full
10,000 so yeah 7,000 on that one okay number four I had mayor Lumber I can go with mayor Lumber I had Ace employment mayor Lumber also W they're just 33,000 that's not just to put shingles they're putting a whole new 46
610 I had have that one wrong no you're right yeah I didn't understand that one re roof store roof re remove shingles and replace with and they're retiring the whole front of also remove existing bit
and shape whatever bit in shape is 190 square feet area paved 225 square yards area with a 4 inch compacted bimus in front which is all broke up which is right on if you look
here it's right on off of 25 yeah right y so that's the area yep y the bit the bit part that's this strip here and he was explaining to me that when the highway came through and redid it they
didn't do this and it just missed it got missed y so it's just been cracking up ever since so what's in re in the the hardware part of it yeah oh the whole the whole this part right here yeah the hardware store part yep that's the
original building yep well well the the new the new old building new old building that section yeah okay Lum addition the hardare store y okay so that's number four and he would also be qualified for them the
$10,000 right okay and I still Butternut but we I'm just having trouble with Ace I'm having trouble with Ace employment just I I understand they want to beautify and all that stuff
but there's no and I know with Mike too there's no guarantee of putting a business in there all right but you know that because you know of something personally which isn't a
fair assessment of true true I just I don't somebody said something about the awning that's Ace that's Ace yeah they want to put an awning on yeah right because I was told not that long ago that they still wanted to put a coffee shop in there I had heard that too so right if I'm going with that I'm
going to say well you're going to bring in a lot of foot traffic you're gonna you know that's not what his application says I would have put in the application and he knew the requirements of the application right he should have been pumping us for has made his main
business AC somewhere else and just this is underneath that business or never anybody there yeah so I got cor trust as my number [Music] five and I got rich Kors is old building
for number six butter I have butternut y old building that apartment part upstairs oh that yeah I have five you I have it at six can move it this way I guess I had it as five so better as five yeah four
actually I think it was my was my four yep well the Landscaping aspect of for TR be impr the trees it did they did I mean not lie I'm looking forward to snow
falling now when that tree is not right yeah it is I was going to most of their cost is asphalt though lot yeah and that's the original from 1994 who that's not mine it's paved I didn't think it was
that break by yeah yeah when you when you get to that second tree section by the dri that's where it's broken yeah and there's a big crack that goes from U Knuckleheads into the garbage disposal area it's about that big and the water
keeps going in and breaking it breaking it up so did we all agree that Butternut would be five yeah we all get on board with that or no yep that's what I originally had I at six I'll change them to five so's a little oh we have
70 five and then it get we don't want to spend it all though right away okay and then I have core trust at six then so I'm keeping totals here I'm keeping totals right here bottom right total you've got for Grant expenditures is $
44,7 and if you put core trust in you're at 54740 and that's where I end that but and I have Ace in front of C trust just because it's G it's uh it's garbage it's parking lot so what is the dollar amount on
Butternut they uh Butternut s 7740 7740 then that's how you get that weird 447 right I could get behind either one of
them I guess which between Ace or core I I mean it would be a long time coming I'd like to see you know is doing a lot though I know that's what I'm looking at the most but it's not existing business
right now I know cor trust has got people going through it all the time but do you think it's going to bring more people because they have a nice parking lot well again that's not what Nick said remember what he says about says foot traffic foot traffic but BR new clients
existing yeah also existing so but that's again the two Co sides of the coin of Economic Development it's not only about what you're going to bring in new it's about businesses who are already here who are bringing in yeah
right my only issue with core trust is we didn't consider anybody else with a a parking lot Lumber a little bit a little bit but you could argue our grant money is going to the roof yeah I mean yeah you could right there were only giving them 10,000
for a $50,000 project or whatever it is 46,000 and I would just or argue that core trust has been paying taxes to the city since 1994 or employment hasn't been paying taxes and cor trust was the number one
taxpayer in the city of mayor for about seven years until Rod did his Improvement on this building we're the highest business in town if we're arguing over the two and they each get 10 grand we're at 44 we can give them
each 10 and be at 647 if you're okay with that you know what give Ace and Rich oops four and Ace 10 you know what I rich is already in is he rich is already in at 77 not no
he's not oh didn't you put you're talking Butternut yeah keep saying rich rich doesn't own it anymore the existing ex sorry butternuts in sorry so right you could put whatever core trust and a says six and seven and it takes us to 64
I mean if that's what we're arguing like did we have cour trust for number six we didn't agree to it I had I have it but that's what I'm saying we can put that in there and then what is seven Ace I have
either or right so if those are the if those are our last two In Contention yep I mean do who's six who's seven no it doesn't getting the same amount of money I'm fine with that okay do we agree that number six is core trust or
not we don't yes we did yeah let's just say it's six and we agreed that seven is a yep that'll be total expenditures of $4,743 and change at this point in the season AG they have to do everything on their list everything that's in the
Grant application they must do and they gotta get it completed in 150 days 150 days now if they come back and say my windows are on back order for 90 days we maybe give it an extension so number seven is right correct yep seven is
a yeah there's no room you sure yep we're done how much we have 64 y so how much do we have left just under we wanted to spend 65 so doesn't Rich have 10,000 which he gets 500 400 5,400 that'll take us over but we're going to
spend out to nothing then that'll take us over I think I don't recommend spending the entirety of our 70 no he wasend Mone for ad for your car I thought this was this money for this
project that's what I thought was for this project this is what you had set aside for this no that's the entirety of the eda's fund oh so you started with oh okay we got 50 50 was for the grant I heard something I'm like 50 is what was
transferred to the Eda the program says nothing the rest on so the program says nothing about a $50,000 limit right it's just that what was transferred and that's you had 20 existing so you have
70 sitting there for the entire year until you get your next installment of cash that's what yeah the idea was don't spend everything because then I might be is that a catch it's okay I think we came out well in the end
yeah we we finded seven might have argued on you know this or that but yeah in the end I think we were all pretty well aligned yep right I agree came that close to be honest yeah right me too now for fun the fun
part I thought that was the fun here's what I we have to figure no sorry no column H column H is what my now I don't have a vote I just did my own scoring for fun and I didn't show you guys because I didn't want it to influence
but hey we did pretty good compared to what you yeah the ones in green are the ones I had slated for so yeah we got yours plus one yeah I had uh core trust would have been seven in my book oh simply because it's a parking lot
project right very good nick why why did we waste our time because funny why we waste our time now do we talk talk about if we want to ask the council for more money yeah right I mean well we don't have to do it right
now but we I think yeah but budget's going to start soon oh it is quarterly meeting so we're starting budget so if you want to make a request for more funding oh yeah okay yeah we want to put that in we want now we have quarterly meetings now that doesn't preclude you guys from setting a meeting three weeks
from now to come back and talk about it I was gonna say 70 but up from 50 I have said 75 I like you like round numbers was just going to go for the 100 since we did have so many applications it doesn't mean we have to
spend it at all but it would be able to help more people again even if we had a 100 Grand we wouldn't have been able to help everybody then true I would just say 70 to 75 is probably so 80 since I have a very good idea of what the
budget's looking I was going to say okay so 70 it is5 75 now 80 85 and we're at 100 already should have [Laughter] started I'm good with 75
75d I think we wanted to do that right Nick I mean because I I know budget time is coming it is this is the time we better get in there early make a motion Tom so first first and foremost make a motion to approve these
seven he can't a motion to approve this at go so now you as chair you must solicit a motion however when it comes to the vote you will abstain to abstain
one is procedural requirements as president the other is the actual vote you want to do it or you want me to do it a motion okay second well you want Peggy to St your motion we fund seven of the highlighted ones that
fun the seven uh so Madson Butternut core trust R&V Ace Bob's repair and mayor Lumber $647 40 yep put that in the
motion that is the motion I motion Tom you can say all in favor so motions been made second to fund with our uh business Improvement grant program applications um seven do I have to name
the seven Nick already did we did Nam the seven businesses for a total of 64740 64740 um dollar U any discussion all um all in favor say I I
opposed carried motion carries no motion so we have the first the second the vote is eyes the second vote is nay and then you specifically say that you are abstaining from
voting okay we try again mhm TR one more time well motion made in second to fund um seven businesses at 64740 um all in favor say I I I any discussion actually any discussion all
in favor say I again I opposed and I abstain from voting looks like motion carries thank you perfect that is exactly on point okay next subject let's talk about funding for next year since we're
talking about it I'd entertain a motion that we request 75,000 from the city of mayor for Eda funding for the um business grant business Improvement grant program for 2025 I would second that
motion motion's been made in second to um increase the fund or the increase the Eda funding for business Improvement grant for 2025 to $75,000 is there any
discussion all in favor say I I opposed motion carries 5 Z awesome oh all right um any Eda indivisible reports or items I do Sir Mr chair I would like to get an
update from City administrator nick uh on the old creamy where the old crey currently sits is he uh he very well knows that he has two options at this point sell it or tear it down and
sell it um he I think it was a couple weeks ago I was talking with him about it and he was going to be refreshing his quotes for demolition where that's Curr at and did the city of Mayor give him a
deadline date for him to be due one or the other no the idea was after the Grant application failed at the CDA he was then all chance of doing his project then died with it he fully understood that he needs to sell or demo it and
sell so there was given just a a birth with no sets end date now it won't be six years of course but um would the council ever revisit that and put an end date if nothing moves yes
okay so Mike Dodge and I the mayor have had some internal conversations about that but we want a motion from the Eda board to instruct the city Council to put an end date on uh Mr
Nick's ownership and lack of action on the items that were sent out six years ago his lack of getting anything done and moving forward um to send them a letter and say thank you for being a business owner in
the city of Mayor but you failed to do blah blah blah blah blah we need to move on people are constantly calling and asking for business opportunities in the city people have requested opportunities not constantly but have requested
opportunities for uh uh business opportunities in the city of Mayor it's the job of the Eda to help facilitate that process so we're encouraging the council to put some kind of a limit on his time frame I it' be a fair statement
from the Eda because it is really the goal of the Eda to try to enh enan businesses to come to town and we would like the city council to put some kind of a limit it could be two years it could be 5 years it could be 10 years but I think we needs I think Nick needs to
know that he can't perpetu right tell you I'm getting new bids refreshing bids I haven't had any luck selling it I've been down this road before in the little town of Stewart Minnesota on an old meat market and finally after the city gave him five
years and he waited till four years 11 months and 29 days before lo and behold he sold it to his mother so um in the meantime yeah there's always a way there fell into disrepair was a rat Nest neighbor complaints to
the city well City's answer to the neighbors and residents was well we gave him five years to liquidate it and he waited till the four years 11 months and 29th day so my just my personal internal
thoughts as City administrator on that was um the soonest this fall the latest next spring sure so is anybody else on the board okay with drafting a letter from the Eda
to the council I would do I would say with legal with legal um representation to review the letter so we're not doing stepping over our lines if the building I mean it's going to fall in see Mont it's already the roof is already falling in but I mean
once the roof goes there's not brick holding brick up on some cases it's wood holding brick up and that's gonna I don't know if that's the case over there but in Mont Rose the East Side went because the roof went yeah so it's going to keep going into the building but if
it is a true brick building like this my that's what what I just said doesn't hold water well I think what this would be is it's a recommendation from the recommendation it's not an ultimatum say we recommend from our Viewpoint as the Eda we want to move forward we want to
try to bring business to the town so the question I have so I I will transmit this to the city council we have two city council members on the board um what deadline do you want one year Max I said I was thinking of telling them you're G to have this thing torn down at
the latest next spring I would agree with that too but too soon might all coll this winter too okay with bidding I mean people are busy for a year so yeah next September one year or next August
even one year that's probably more realistic with unless we come in with an engine block swinging from a crane so my rationale is he's had how many years to get this squared up he knew he wasn't getting the grant this isn't earlier this year
right had time and to get a to get a quote to do demo you do that over the winter right and then once weight restrictions are off and you can load the thing come out the thing under yep good reason so yeah I like spring that
that was my internals I like Nick Johnson's internals deal with this yeah if you I think we should put a date yeah right like April 30th not spring
not not a year like April 30th July 31st August 1st 2025 it something not August 1 or July 31st not July 31st it's a weird day what July 1 do it's the first of the month what is the wish of the
board not April weight restrictions on it can still be soft and uh depend on what kind of spring you have I'm fine with August 1 August vers I'd like to see July first personally absolutely no excuse August 1
Sor I'm fine with you the July AR because hold on a minute he may not decide that he may not well now ultimately they will but we have to put something on the lad we recommend that the date be but if he doesn't tear it down and just sell it that's his options
his second option is so he doesn't huh it's you can it doesn't we don't put in there who he can sell it to so he he can sell it however he could sell it to his best friend so how this how this plays out I'll tell you how it'll play out he could sells it to his mother that does
not reset any clocks in my book it's still dilapidated building I would then have a conversation with his mother let's say he sells it in April I'm like well that's nice you now have three months to tear it down so so put in the letter sell or
tear down by yes ultimately then if he sells it prior to August 1st he still has the new owner has to tear it down by August 1st right so or could you say um either way this building has to be torn down or
rehabilitated yeah project would have to start not rehabilitated that's not no we're past that point okay that's we're way we're P that as sailed so it's tear down by August August 1 July whatever and Scott if you're making the motion you put the dates in there and then the
board votes on what date you put in there yep I'll agree with anything because the city can adjust why didn't put sell in there has be t on yeah I'm just to say tore down has be tore down whether it's due to blight safety issues you word Smith that we can put whatever you want in but I guess I can put that in my
motion my motion is to make a recommendation to the city council from the Eda board to let the owner of the creary Nick whatever his last name is wosi Valic that the building gets tore down by the 1 of August
2025 I like Chad July 31st I don't know why then you don't even look into August it's over August thinks it gives them one more time but okay July I'll I'll friendly Amendment I'll amend my motion to July
31st 2025 we didn't vote on anything El right I'll restate my motion July 31st because Brad likes the date that Chad brought up then city council change it anyways
think going to change it anyway that's just you we're doing June 1st yeah sells out of it so so can I ask if we move forward with Scott's motion does that get um right if he
sells it is that part of the sell agreement that the new owners would know that it needs to be Tor like if we put this in that this property has to be torn down by August 1st and he sells it on December 1st is the new owner's
obligated well that's what I was saying to be reability he said no that's totally to tear it down like yeah you can file the city of Mayor can file a document and record it in the caror county recorder's office that says that this property is uninhabitable and not
eligible for rehabilitation it needs to be destroyed and tore down by uh July 31st of 2025 file the document and when that do when that so S no here here's how it works this is a recommendation
from the eda2 city the Eda I'll draft a letter and it will go to city council that the Eda recommends that you tell nickc that it August 1 is what we're recommending now Council takes that into
consideration they can say yes or no we we notify and then let's say Council says yes I then notify Nicholas SEC that Council has said we are setting a deadline for you of July 31st of next year you have to have that thing demoed
regardless of what not regardless you have to have if you if it's not sold by then now in the process let's say you have somebody who's got let Elon Musk comes down the road and he says I want to buy that property I'm going to stick
I'm going to develop it I'm going to rehab the whole thing on Development I've got the money no questions asked well now rehad is on the table because this is directed at nichas SEC some went to brewery they can put the rof on if the sides are good and all that that's what I this assumption is that Nick is
still holding it as of that date okay so if somebody else buys it and they've got the money to throw into it and they said no I want to keep it and Rehab it because I like the historic aspect of it great so then you maybe change your motion unless sold before that date you
can add add that in there to a new owner with the idea that it be that's reh the idea is that this is directed at Nick lasac right that's true he's the problem yep not the new owner Now set that date comes and goes then we get into forc
abatement procedures at the right yep which is where we were just about at when he came in with the plan I had the resolution ready to go yeah so we default back to that all right if he decid good with that
not really what this is about is giving Nick his deadline yep and that's the important thing yep so there's a motion on was there a second motion on all that no I didn't call because just now you had it just to be tore down but but that's what we're
with for as long as he's the owner yep as long I you know I could say motion is as long as Nick vasic vasic whatever is owner of 20223 blue J Avenue um it has to be tore down by July 31st 2025 13 fth
Street of course he would know 113 fth Street the old crey the old IE the old crey the property known as the old crey known as the old crey by July 31st
2025 sounds like a motion to me what do we go July 20 31st now then it's July 31st 202 August okay I'm try to do this here second sorry you just want to do that yep we're good this is on
recording this is on YouTube that was Scott's motion yep okay Scott's motion on any discussion yeah I know motions been made in second is there any discussion no all in favor say I hi oh
that hurt motion carries next update I have another question officer update what's the status of the old fire hall it is in Brad qu's hands in process in process in process yeah what he wa he's going the
roof glasses on or didn't come in that one and now I'm adding the fourth one over there so that's ordered um gas lines are in electrical roughed in now we're moving into the bathrooms just got a permit for a couple of the bathrooms nice a permit for a couple more so the
East and West sides will be done first got it okay and the middle last yeah as people come got it any prospects a lot but I can't make no promises people turn their lives upside
down for a date and if I get a delay on something yeah right still looking at fall though good I don't see a problem with fall perfect awesome and they fit within the criteria that the city some of them yep not all okay
so heck Brad the heck Brad what's that the middle gonna be a dispensary I'm January 1 maybe a new tenant January 1 in the middle part then or the city I assume has adopted a
cannabis uh policy are you working through that or forward yet we're well have you had a discussion with the county have they been here yet talk subjects now I know we are okay old fire hall all right I'll I'll I'll re refrain from any more questions regarding the
old fire hall does anybody want to do number seven thanks for the update this is what we on anybody you got it motion a motion second motions would remain second to
any discussion say I motion Carri next meeting is oh gosh um should be October or something October what are we 3D Monday
21st right actually the on Wednesday first is on Tuesday is October a little weird uh I have my Wednesday car show on October 2nd we're not Wednesdays we're Mondays I know Monday
21st no our our next our next scheduled meeting is October 21st on that Monday yeah like the first I heard first Monday third third Monday third Monday okay 21st this okay perfect any further discussion yeah
thank you guys I do have to on another appointment but I know I got seconds