Good morning and welcome to the City of Denton Economic Development Partnership
Board meeting. Today May the 8th 2019 our meeting is beginning at 1108. We welcome
everyone that's here in the room as well as our extensive television audience to
the proceedings today. We have a number of items on the agenda the first of
which is EDP19019. Consider the approval of economic development partnership
board minutes from the April 10th meeting. We'll give everyone a few seconds
excuse me a few a little bit to make sure they refresh themselves with the
minutes and then we'll vote on those minutes. I move approval of the economic
development partnership board meeting minutes from April 10th 2019 as
previously submitted to members. Okay we have a motion on the floor for approval.
Second. Okay Keely Briggs second. Discussion. I would like to discuss one
of the items on the agenda regarding the downtown reinvestment grant. Let's see
there was a $10,000 approval for Steve's Wine and Bar. Was there a previous
approval on this do we know or is this the extent of the approval? On Steve's
specifically? Yes. I believe that's the only time we have voted there was a time
I think it was on the agenda but there was some kind of issue and so we didn't
discuss it he came back and I believe final vote was. What that wasn't Steve's?
Yeah that's the only time you looked at the one was last month was for 111
industrial that was the okay the only time that this body has looked at it. And
there was no discussion of the loophole last? Not on the last agenda. There being
no further discussion all in favor of the minutes as presented signify by
saying aye. Aye. All against same sign. Any abstentions? Okay thank you. Minutes
move forward as approved. Erica have you been formally recognized by this board?
Is this your first meeting? Oh a second meeting okay all right very good thank
you thank you. Let's see yes. It is hard because I know some of you so I'm not a
new face but to those of you who I don't know I'm I'm excited to meet you and
excited to be here working with you and be a part of this board. I'm excited to
be here. Thank you. Welcome welcome welcome. Thank you thank you very much.
Let's see. ADP 19021 staff reports. I won't go over the economic development
staff report in detail unless there are specific questions. I do want to call
your attention to item four on the staff reports which is a future agenda item
matrix. This is something that we do with City Council and with other boards and
commissions to give you a sort of heads up of what items are coming and it's a
planning tool for us to make sure we're not overloading an agenda with too many
items. On that you'll see the meetings scheduled out through September. Can you
tell us what page that is? It's page 30. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. I'm
sorry. A side note to that would be the Chairman Rivers and I had discussed the
possibility of holding a joint City Council EDP meeting and the first
available City Council luncheon date is September 9th so I just wanted to add
that to the list of items for your consideration in terms of planning out
future meetings. I do not know if you if everyone is open to having a meeting on
both the 9th and the 11th but that's certainly what I was working towards.
So the 9th would be a Monday? The 9th is a Monday, yes sir. Can we take that under
advisement and then? Absolutely. And I'm sure since Chairman Rivers kind of
initiated that I'm sure he would have some input on that. Absolutely. We'll
circle back with the board to make sure that everyone is good with the date
that's chosen. Any further items Jessica? I do not have any and then I will defer
to Erica or Karen in regards to the chamber reports if if there are any
questions.
Erica did you have an input? Did you would like to make a presentation today?
I don't have one. So I'm not sure what page in your packet our report is on.
I brought mine out base so I don't know if that page you guys have. Maybe 23 I believe it begins?
So yeah if you guys have any questions about that, Karen or myself can
likely answer those. We have a lot of marketing activities and opportunities coming forward so
we're excited that that ball keeps moving. We're on track to be well ahead of all of our
goals that have been set within the partnership by September of this year.
Thank you. So where can you get more information on bullet point one? Karen do you have any more
information about the lake farm?
Lake farm is, this was their second site visit. First site visit was actually for
a small 15,000 square foot office building. This one was a much more in
depth concept. They are talking about doing 350, 400,000 square foot
possibly multi buildings of a life science project campus. And we're still
looking for sites. I have yet to find a 500 acre site right next to UNT or TWU.
I just can't figure out how to make land like that. I'd like to try. Still in the
concept stage we do not have a specific site or location. We've sent them probably
close to about six or seven different sites. None of them have met with their
approval yet. None of them have made them jump up and down. I'm trying to get
discussions with Discover Park and back with TWU also. Maybe they'll have
multiple sites and have a joint conference campus kind of feel to it. We're not sure yet.
For clarification, is this a public or private campus?
Well it's an office campus. So it's multiple buildings but they would be owned by the same people.
So like a business park. Not a student campus at all. They may be
doing research and development but not education. They would like to
partner with UNT, TWU, maybe even Southwest Medical. That's just ballparks.
Okay thank you for that. Is that within the confines of the city of Denton that
you're looking to do? I know the master plan, at least I think I know the master
plan at UNT is rather logjam. They don't have much room over there.
Thank you. There being no more items to discuss on the staff reports, we'll move
to EDP 19-020. Receive a report, hold discussion, make a
recommendation to City Council regarding nominating Tyson Sales and
Distribution Inc. to the Office of the Governor, Economic Development and
Tourism through the Economic Development Bank. Erika? Good morning. Good morning.
I'm going to be providing a brief overview of the Tyson project that you
looked at recently and the request for state assistance through the Texas
enterprising program. Which page number in the report? 31 is the beginning. Thank
you. As you may recall, Tyson based in Springfield, Arkansas provides
refrigerated warehousing and distribution services to a number of
Tyson food companies listed here. They generated 38 billion in sales in 2017
and employ 122,000. The local project Tyson is constructing a 350,000
square foot, highly automated refrigerated distribution center and that
will include gantry, robots, pallet conveyors and a monorail and they plan
to ship 700 pounds of product annually and will employ 100 at the distribution
center and their total investment in the project is 52 million. The facility will
be located on 65 acres at the southeast corner of Western and Jim Crystal in the
West Park Tours. Tyson's business personal property investment is
quite significant at 29 million so Tyson received an abatement of 25% of their BPP
only which does not go into the Tours for a period of six years and this was
approved by Council back in February. And the objective today is for this board to
make a recommendation on the nomination of Tyson sales and distribution to the
Texas Enterprise Zone program and this is accomplished through a resolution for
consideration by Council. We're looking at going on the 21st. And a little bit
about the Texas Enterprise Zone program. It's a state program, it's an economic
tool to provide job creation and capital investment in economically distressed
areas of the state of Texas. Applicants are eligible apply for state sales and
use tax refunds through this program and it provides state reimbursement based on
their capital investment and jobs created or retained for economically
disadvantaged individuals and also for veterans. A local incentive is required
for a company to be able to apply for the Texas Enterprise Zone program.
We have a question here. So on the last one are they is this incentive or a
refund I'm sorry is this refund based on the amount of individuals they hire that
fall into this category? Yes they have they're required to have 25% if they're
in the zone and 35% if they're outside of the zone and they're in the zone. So
25% of the 100 jobs that they're going to have here would be veterans or
disadvantaged individuals? Yes so they would either need to be located in this
area live in this area which there's quite a big tract or they would be
veterans in this area. Oh okay okay so it's about location not about someone's
personal yes it's based on poverty rate licenses tract. Oh okay okay so it's not
it's not an individual person experiencing poverty so they wouldn't
necessarily have to hire somebody who is disadvantaged as long as they just live
in this zone yes so they could hire in any actually any zone in the city that
meets the economic distress criteria. So this map shows the enterprise zone
we were discussing it's highlighted the part that's eligible and the location
determines like I was just discussing the percent of new employees that must
meet the criteria since Tyson's inside like I said it's 25% if it would have
been outside it would have been 35%. And then the benefits to Tyson itself is a
state sales and use tax up to 250,000 depending on how many of their 100 they
qualify so it's 2,500 a job and it might be less but that would be the most. And
then to Dutton 25% of new jobs created or also positions that turn over by
people who are economically disadvantaged residents of
enterprise zone within the city's jurisdiction that we talked about or
veterans and then jobs created are certified by the governor's office of
economic and tourism and must be maintained for a period of three years.
Nominating Tyson enables Tyson to assist Dutton to assist the company in
receiving significant state sales tax refunds and then nominating Tyson the
program has no fiscal impact to the city. I'd be happy to entertain questions
about the program or Tyson itself. Kind of a similar question I think it has to
do with eight of ten on page on your slide presentation eight of ten it talks
about benefits to Denton I think piggybacking on councilperson Briggs's
question as far as 25% of new jobs created or existing positions that
turnover will be filled by people who are either economically disadvantaged
our residents of an enterprise zone within the city's jurisdiction or our
veterans so is this just is this a goal because the way it's kind of stated it
makes it sound like there's some kind of requirement so there is a requirement
that they're economically disadvantaged we have a number of zones in the city
itself now because we've granted about six okay so they have to hire a certain
number of people from a certain regional from a certain jurisdiction that's put
forward as economically disadvantaged yes it's done by the poverty rate by
census tract so yes there is some kind of requirement that so many people from
an economically distressed area are hired
economically distressed my question yeah so I mean that would be they don't review like tax return it's or anything they just right yeah kind of
guesstimate because they live in an area that's not as economically prosperous
the governor's office of economic and development and tourism is who monitors
that and then the state comptroller's who's responsible for sales and use taxes
so those are the two agencies involved I move we move forward on the staff
recommendation to nominate Tyson for said assistance from the state we have a
motion on the floor hearing a second we have a second further discussion no
further discussion all in favor of accepting the staff's recommendation
signify by saying aye aye all against same sign I won against any abstentions
thank you
the next item on the agenda is EDP one nine zero two two receive a report and
hold discussions regarding activities and develop excuse me development at
Denton Enterprise Airport Mr. Chairman members of the board good morning I'm
Scott Gray the airport manager I have a short presentation be happy to answer
any questions as I go through them as well I'm happy to be with you again for
the second time I think the first time I I was here was back in July of 17 I'd
only been with the city for about a month or so so here are two years later
and I'm invited back so hopefully the information I have for you today is
exciting to me being here for two years and it'll be exciting for you as well
just a little bit of the statistical information not a lot has changed here
specifically for the airport just maybe some updated information to kind of get
you up to date to 2018 stats 84 ground leases so those are various businesses
for aviation use or they could be private so they have a language from the
city and they'll have their own private hangar and store their own aircraft
about 30 businesses at the airport ranging from flight training to full
maintenance to fixed base operator there's also sales charter so there's a
number of different businesses that are encompassed at the airport as well
340 based airplanes so that ranges from small single-engine all the way up to
corporate jets we do have one runway you can see it right here in the middle at
this point goes from here to here it's a 7,000 foot runway allows us to
accommodate pretty much any corporate aircraft that's available in the fleet
today so what does that mean 737s it's called a Boeing business jet when it's
used for general aviation purposes so we can handle those aircraft we have about
929 acres it takes up mostly what you see around this perimeter right here is
the airport and I'll get into some of the development opportunities that we're
looking at in the future just under 150,000 operations for 2018 I believe
our peak was about 164 so we're on the way back up after a little bit of a
downturn but we've we're on the pace now to break 150 for 2019 and we do pump
about 1.7 million gallons of aviation fuel so be it jet fuel for the jet
aircraft or it or avgas for the smaller aircraft this is probably one of the
things that most people just don't understand a lot of folks believe that
we're just a small general aviation airport with not much going on I'm here
to tell you that that is just not the case we are the eight busiest airport in
the state of Texas so we're behind all of the big airports that you can think of
DFW Houston Intercontinental all of those airports are just above us and we are
number eight I believe the last time I spoke to you we were number seven and the
reason we're number eight now is there's a couple of airports in the metroplex
that depending upon where the flight students go fly for the various months
it just kind of jockeys back and forth but we are we are currently number eight
we are the fourth busiest contract air traffic control tower in the system so
that's throughout the country and the 89th busiest airport in the country
that's pretty significant as well there are over 5,000 airports in the United
States so we are in the top 100 and you can see in this picture just happens to
be some of our military visitors that they do stop here and get fuel cross
country now and time and again probably what's of interest to you is the
economic impact I did include in your packet I think it's exhibit number two
looks like this this is just the the piece about Denton itself this is the
full economic impact study summary and I'll pass that around so you can take a
look at that thank you but let me highlight what that study did identify
the the presence of Denton Enterprise Airport in the city is 1435 jobs so are
there 1435 jobs at the airport no there those are all of the jobs associated
with the presence of the airport so it could include all the ancillary services
for the businesses that are out there could be hotel could be rental car so
it's the it includes all of the ancillary jobs that are associated with
the with having the airport here in the city the payroll at the airport is
approximately 46 million dollars and then the goods and services approximately
146 thousand or excuse me million dollars as well that that has increased
since the last time they did their study but again it is pretty significant put
that into perspective there's 264 general aviation airports in the state
we are number 11 on that list for total economic impact I'll get us to 10 so we
can be in the top 10 you have a time frame on that I'm when you're gonna
invite me back I'll do my best some of the major service providers and some of
these names probably look familiar they you probably had discussions with them
yourself US Aviation Academy is our large international flight training they're
actually doing domestic flight training now as well at Denton US Jet Center is
our FBO or fixed base operator they're basically like our concierge that you
would have at the hotel they meet and greet all of the visitors provide them
fuel arrange for hotels whatever they the passengers may need med trans which
is a fairly new facility I believe they opened in December of 18 yes it's
December of 18 they are a medical air ambulance company that moved their
corporate headquarters from Lewisville to Denton and then they also incorporated
all of their flight training for their helicopter pilots so every helicopter
pilot in their system and they have probably over 90 locations in the United
States every helicopter pilot in their system comes to Denton every 90 days to
do retraining which is pretty significant a lot of companies don't don't have that
kind of retraining but every one of them come they fly their helicopters at
Denton they do all of their night vision training and so forth when our when I
get to the end of the slide here you'll see our newest facility that's going to
come along that's going to help them actually train even more at our airport
because it will provide them another landing choice that doesn't interrupt
other traffic as I mentioned before we have about 30 businesses so there's 24
other businesses that are located at the airport these are just happen to be our
top just a moment on the the development opportunities this is the the east side
of the airport the airport terminal building is right here in this location
Airport Road or 1515 is right here and this is Westcourt what you see in the in
the red is already under lease agreement matter of fact site number five which
you see right here and site number seven were just recently approved this one
last night this one a month ago by the City Council so they're going to be
starting construction on those two facilities corporate hanger and office
in this location and this will be several large hangars that can
accommodate large corporate jets in this in site number seven what you see in the
green is what's left that's all that we have left available it's it's give or
take seven to eight acres on this side of the airport there has been some
interest in a number of these facilities over here and we're working those folks
through the process to determine who would be interested question oh I'm
sorry could you point out the future area where the fire fire station certain
the the terminal building is located right here and the fire station would go
right here right next to the terminal building just just to the just to the
site and that was reserved by council a number of months ago so that site is
reserved for the future fire station it's such time that the fire department
determines that they need that that extra station and again it's called the
airport fire station but it's not just for the airport it will have our
services which is aircraft rescue and firefighting but it'll also be used to
respond to the industrial area adjacent to the airport is there currently a
station in place at the airport I wouldn't call it a station there's a
there's a storage facility right over here that we have a fire truck that is
stored there so when there is a incident that the fire department
responds to they go to that location and use that truck to respond to the
incident response time response times about five minutes at most they either
respond from station three or station seven station three being the one by
UNT station seven is is just south of the airport thank you isn't there other
things that our airport could qualify for once we get I am an actual fire
station on the campus or is am I thinking of something else you're
probably thinking about what I think my next slide is and that's part 139 I'll
get it I'll touch upon that I think it might be the next slide actually a
little more exciting than part 139 let's talk about the West parallel runway
then I'll get to 139 as many of you know we are in the process of constructing
the West parallel runway it started in November of last year we are about 60%
complete with that runway this is a drawing that shows where it will be
here's our primary runway here and this would be the the runway that's being
constructed we are about 60% completed scheduled to be completed in the first
part of September that runway that runway is mainly to separate traffic for safety
so you have slow slower airplanes training airplanes and faster corporate
airplanes by separating that traffic you make a safer operating environment plus
we have a large number of training aircraft that operate on a daily basis
sometimes it's difficult to get to the primary runway because there's a line of
eight or ten airplanes that are waiting to get out and when corporate airplanes
fly they typically fly on what's called instrument flight rules and they have
certain amount of time that they have to get to the end of the runway and have to
depart or they get held on the ground until DFW radar control can allow them
to go and mix them into the rest of the traffic so this will help separate that
traffic and not cause them any delays that project is a six point four
million dollar project it's an 85 15 percent grant from text on cited that
that project was initially eight point nine million dollar project but the bids
came in extremely well as you can tell there for almost three million dollars
less than what was anticipated which was great for the for the city it saved us
some capital monies that we could be using for some other projects as we move
forward again this project is is anticipated to be completed in September
and I'll show you a picture here in just a minute is the can you go back one
slide yes thank you is the the purple on both sides is that are those acreage set
aside for the takeoff so that's just saying that's called the runway protection
zones and those those properties were purchased by the city a number of years
ago you you protect that area so you don't have any development in that area
because you can see is right off the end of the runway thank you you can see this
picture actually was taken by the Civil Air Patrol for us they go up there based
at the airport and they go up and do various photos around the state and they
sent us a few and you can see this is where the construction is taking place
this one's probably about a month old so you can see a lot of the earthwork was
being done here so the runway ends up being about right in this location that
picture is significantly changed in a month they have done quite a bit of work
we had anticipate the paving coming along probably in the second week of
June so we had about another month worth of of earthwork we have four hundred
thousand cubic yards of dirt that has to be moved around to make that runway
work a lot of that dirt is actually going to be surplused right over in this
area the tech stock will be able to use for the loop freeway for the crossing so
we'll be working with them to allow them to use that to hopefully expedite that
that roadway and I'll get into what that means the airport in just a minute the
runway itself once it's completed we'll still have two subsequent projects one
we just got the grant yesterday so we'll be moving forward with the design for
that which is the runway lighting project so the runway is being built
without lights so it'll be used just during the daytime but I've been
working with tech start to expedite that project and we're hoping that we'll
have the lighting actually installed before the end of the year that'll give
us a fully functional day/night runway also in conjunction with that the FAA is
working on instrument approaches to that runway so they're called GPS approaches
that'll allow it to be full weather active for any aircraft so let me talk
for a moment about a new initiative that we talked to the council a number of
months ago it's been in the airport master plan as well and the business plan
that this body actually was party to back in 2011 I believe it was is the
acquisition of an airport certification or FAA part 139 and what part 139 allows
us to do is accommodate unscheduled charter aircraft with greater than 30
seats so really what does that mean to the airport in the city right now UNT
sports charters all go to Alliance and their and their rivals they go there as
well so this would allow them to operate in and out of their hometown airport and
bring in all of their competitors into our facility as well also the Texas
Motor Speedway charters that are associated with that there's there's
really two types of charters and I won't I won't bore you with the FAA details
but we do get some now they operate under a certain provision of FAA rules
by having this certificate it would allow them all to be able to operate at
our facility we've had them in the past some of the sports teams do still come
in under certain provisions and some of the raceway charters do come in but this
will open it up to all of them so the timing here with this particular project
is the initial FAA inspection that was completed and we will we will be
analyzing that information and determining what what capital impacts
there might be in order to make that happen many of the items that they
identified were items that were already in the process of having tech stock
grants to address anyway so we believe that it won't be too significant to to
do that my background I like operating a general aviation airport as if we were
part 139 anyway because it's just the right thing to do at safety so we
operate that way now so we have our our employees trained we do all of the
requirement and paperwork that we do for 139 anyway we're already doing that so
it will be far along the path on that so the next item we have to do is submit a
airport certification manual for FAAs consideration it usually takes 9 to 12
months we've heard sometimes many as two years it just depends on FAAs
workload our intent is to look at some similar airports Tuscaloosa Alabama
happens to be one that would be looking at the same size as we are with the same
type of certificate and they accommodate the University of Alabama's
traffic so we're hoping that that will give us some insight and maybe fast-track
our approval process so although it's got the same information there on the
left I just wanted to show you types of airplanes for me I know what they are
for you folks you might not understand what the airplanes look like the one
there on the bottom is a 737 which if you've flown southwest at all it's
pretty much their entire fleet that happens to be a charter aircraft that
does sports charters looks just like a regular passenger aircraft the one on
the top is an Embraer 135 it's just a smaller aircraft that can accommodate
they've got different models 35 50 and 75 passengers so those we've had come in
before we actually had nine of those come in for the race not last year but
the year before we had nine of those particular airplanes with the race teams
that all came in so with that I'll be happy to go back
yeah so do we advertise to all the people at Texas Motor Speed Brakes how do we get that information about our airport because
Alliance is just right there like how what are we doing it's a great question
there's a couple of things that are actually in play sometimes it's economic
development department and the chamber that helps us with that our fixed base
operator obviously they're kind of the marketing arm of aviation if you will
they're the ones that meet and greet everybody they do quite a bit of work
meeting with those folks I've also been in contact with the Texas Motor Speed
Speedway myself and have talked to them about 139 and what that means and
they're telling all of their customers that that will be coming as well we also
work with the NBA which is the National Business Aircraft Association and I'll
be talking with them actually tomorrow and they will be assisting us in that
venture as well I also had a question mr. Gray do we get landing fees no sir we
do not charge a landing fee at our airport the only airport other than DFW
and Dallas Love Field to charge the landing field is Alliance none of the
other fields do is there reason we don't yes I guess it's a simple answer to be
competitive if you look at some of our our competitive airports you're talking
about Addison Fort Worth Meacham McKinney those are really kind of our
sister airports if you will if we charge a landing fee the operators of those
aircraft have a they have an opportunity to choose a number of other places to go
that they wouldn't have to charge or didn't get charged a landing fee some of
those competitors are maybe a more strategically located than we are to the
downtown markets whether it be Fort Worth or Dallas so at this particular
time it wouldn't be advisable to although the revenue would be nice to
have the additional revenue I think it would put us at a disadvantage compared
to our sister so is our revenue basically gasoline or excuse me fuel and
maintenance our revenues are really derived from land leases and from fuel
fuel thank you question I didn't say that thank you for asking that question
our existing runway is 7,000 and 2 feet our new runway will be 5,000 feet by 75
feet again it's it'll accommodate most of the corporate airplanes but not all
of them again if the main runway happens to be down for maintenance or there's a
situation on the main runway we can accommodate the vast majority of our
traffic on that on the second one any other questions hearing none thank you so
much thank you presentation
let's see the next agenda item is EDP 19-024 receiver report and hold the
discussion and make a recommendation to City Council regarding a downtown
reinvestment grant for 119 West Hickory the loophole the downtown task force
recommends a grant in the amount of 10,000 approved by a vote of 4 to 1 I'm
giving you some information that is on a slide in my presentation but it's very
hard to see on this slide so just make it a little easier for you there so this
is 119 West Hickory right on the face of the square this is the loophole we do
have the owners with us today Charlie and Lindsay Nolot so if you have some
questions at the end they're here to answer any questions that I might not be
able to address just giving you kind of a view through the ages here in 1940s it
was Lamode department store in 1960s it was like a collegiate shop the last one
is the drawing of the improvements that the owners are currently making this is
just a sketch what they're going to do is recess the front so they have kind of
a patio area here there will be doors that can open or close on the sidewalk
the signage is new and this is a kind of a bird's-eye view looking down at that
new patio section and as as was brought up earlier this you have looked at this
particular building before so back and she'll look at your backup back in February you
looked at this after the Historic Landmark Commission had approved the
changes and the downtown task force had approved the changes it went to council
in March and they approved that particular grant for $5,000 the owners
came to that meeting and requested that given they had some new some new things
they were doing some new charges and asked if they could come back to the
task force and so we we did another application so this is a brand new
application not nothing to do with the very first one this is the first budget
just to kind of give you that background so the planned improvements right now are to
restore that facade to the 30s 40s kind of that historic look the signage some
interior improvements which includes some custom booths they're kind of
playing on the Bonnie and Clyde theme inside and they're going to do some
things on their menu for about Bonnie and Clyde an improved stage area for some
music and outdoor patio area they have discovered it during this process the
original terrazzo floor down in the entryway some of the timber joist and
additional original brick that wasn't not exposed before so we kind of have a
before and a current here this picture is probably about a year ago the several
awning is gone now so and we have with there we have a recessed area they are
still working on this so this is not how it's going to look when it's finished
just some shots here I did have some some slides from the owners that they
presented to council earlier and I just included some of these so you can kind
of get a feel of where they're going the murals inside again dealing playing off
at the Bonnie and Clyde history and the history of Bonnie and Clyde and Denton
and Denton County that is the sheet that I gave you that you cannot read on the
screen so this is the current bit sheet that they have given me and the total
down there's one hundred and six thousand six hundred and fifty dollars
and again the previous review the on this particular application April the
11th the downtown task force looked at this they recommended $10,000 grant
because they scored 21.8 which was rounded up to 22 which gave put them in
that category of up to $10,000 it's in a nutshell
answer any questions question here they asked for 25,000 and got five and then
this time they asked for 25,000 again or you can only ask for 20 because they'd
already got they could only ask for 20 because they're 25,000 cap on the 20th
address so of that 20,000 they were granted 10 which makes that a total of
15 total towards the 106 we saw here or the 106 plus the other expenditures they
spent so retreat retreating these separately and the very first
application I don't believe we included the signage on these okay we took the
signage back at another signage is in there I think on the first one we decided
to apply that 5,000 to the signage and then this one was treated as a separate
application because we just didn't want to confuse the work that had started
hadn't been started the new work you know it just it was a lot cleaner just
to do a new application but yes you are correct there was 5,000 has been granted
they have not collected that yet because we need receipts and some other things
for that application from this point today if it moves forward it will move
forward to counsel for their final decision so just so the itemized bid
sheet we just saw was it completely new items that weren't listed previously
with the exception of the signage these are items that had not been started when
they filled out the second application so being somewhat new to this process I
believe I'm still kind of new the the maximum amount of the grant is how much
25,000 it's 25 25,000 per address so they've received 5,000 which means at
this point 20,000 max on this building and then there's and then this
particular grant is for an additional 10 yes sir okay is what we're looking at
today okay thank you question Julie can you tell us what what is our current
balance as far as the amount this year that we're going to be able to
distribute I'm just wanting to kind of keep that in mind as we how many months
we have right so what we got if everything passes through all the way
through and gets paid out with the exception of this one right now we're at
about 38,000 on that remaining remaining that was in that general fund balance
that we were talking about before we moved into the downtown to hers money so
it's 38,000 is some change okay and that's a finite amount before this yes
but I'm just saying that's not going to be replenished right for it it will be
right that is it that was the general fund balance it was I want to say it's
thirty eight thousand six hundred and thirty five something something like
that and after that we'll go to the tours board and ask the two you looked at
last time the 101 hickory and the one one one eleven industrial so and the
five thousand previous included on it so right at this moment thirty eight thousand
not counting this money so it makes sense yes and then moving forward it
will be is it a certain amount coming from the turf whether it's my agree to
each time will be a request from that the tourist board has approved a hundred
thousand per year okay to moving forward once the general fund money is gone and
we move into that money they can each year make a decision and change that
amount if they want and do you know is that a calendar year so that it was your
fiscal year on the city on the city fiscal year okay again just trying to
make sure I know what our balance will be and what we've got left to help with
for the time thank you any other questions the recommendation is the
recommendation was 10,000 from the task force they have a recommendation on the
floor for 10,000 all in the year
can we have a motion need a second second motion and second any further
discussion hearing none all in favor of approving the $10,000 grant signify by
saying aye against the same sign any abstentions thank you Julie
let's see the next item on the agenda is EDP 19-025 receive a report hold the
discussion and give staff direction regarding the number of economic
development partnership annual business awards to be given and the selection
criteria okay miss Cunningham thank you I'm Michelle Cunningham business
development officer city economic development department and as you may
recall a presentation was given on this topic at the board's last meeting but
you were not asked at that time to make a recommendation or reach a decision and
so I'm back with that purpose in mind and to provide a little bit more
information about the award process historically the economic development
board provides the premier or the final capstone award each year at the annual
mayor's City Council business awards breakfast the criteria were adopted by
the board in 2008 and you will find those criteria on I believe it's your
page 84 it's at the end and at last year during the nomination of the businesses
to be researched for ultimately the board selection members of the board
were interested in being able to better judge small businesses or enter
nominations of smaller businesses because as you can see historically the
larger companies Peterbilt Target you know wonderful companies but larger
companies upon are for whom had higher tax valuations and higher number of
jobs etc so for a small company it's hard to compete from on that criteria and
with the general criteria that had been placed in 2008 for for predominantly
these larger companies and so the intent had and I'm aware of the Chamber of
Commerce every year provides a small business award and this is a pivotal
award provided by the chamber and that was brought up at the time and it was
not ever the intent of the Economic Development Partnership Board or to
replace or discussion indicated it was never the intent of the board to replace
or compete with that award because it is significant and on the part of the
chamber but to have a different set of criteria that were more conducive for
this board to be able to compare smaller companies to each other so say you
nominated three or four smaller companies and there were no large
companies smaller companies were harder to evaluate based on the very general
criteria that you had in the 2008 criteria that the board had adopted and
so staff was requested to go back and before the nominations occurred this
year to come back with a suggested criteria that might work if the board
wished to nominate small companies so that their their contributions to the
community or and their structure would be fairly analogous to the large
companies but would be a little bit more scaled down to being able to compare
smaller companies with each other to reach your determination so the process
typically that this typically takes is that this board will provide nominations
staff will go back and research these companies based on all of the different
categories of criteria will come back to the board with those that matrix filled
in so that you have an opportunity of comparing all the companies that you
nominate directly across that matrix with each other to help aid you in your
discussion so at this point at the last meeting there was discussion as to
whether the Economic Development Partnership Board wished to adopt or go
forth with possibly presenting one large award or a larger business award each
year by larger I mean a hundred employees and over or and to present a
smaller business award for companies having under a hundred employees the
second aspect was if indeed the board should elect not to do that or if there
is a circumstance where you are nominating smaller companies and no
large companies for your consideration are the criteria that are included and
that's your final page for for determining or for comparing smaller
companies acceptable to the board so we need a determination of how many awards
you wish to confer each year the size whether it's just one award you want to
do a large award and a small award and whether regardless of that outcome
whether if you are considering small companies for an award of any kind from
this board if the second set of criteria targeting smaller companies is is
acceptable and is one that you would like to utilize I exhibit three is the
criteria that was given to us and I am happy with that I like what I see and
there's specific things that we can relate to how they're involved in the
community in several different ways I would like to continue with the large
award and add a small award so it's to each year and I'm I'm good with the
criteria you have listed here
I would be my I'm just if this isn't the way we discussed I mean I'm open to hear
more discussion before a motion and this isn't an action item it's just to give
direction so just discussion so we have some general discussion that's been laid
on the table would anyone like to continue that discussion or or take a
contrary position the second award for smaller companies because for the big
companies got big they were small something that'd be good it'd be nice to
recognize the small growing companies that are here as well for sure
thank you and I agree with the criteria it takes into account what we can provide versus what a small company can do. I get it.
Thank you any other input? I agree with him. Okay. We're good? Yes sir. I'm sitting in the chairman's seat so I have an opinion. Do I get to talk?
Absolutely. Thank you. I needed that. I needed that. I think it's it's it's it's it's really good to have both the large and the
small I think it and then the criteria that's listed here I believe is pretty
comprehensive and the the only question I have is in in kind of doing the
selection is that one individual at the city or we're going to have a group at
the city? You decide you this board makes the selection this board makes the
nominations. So the selection comes from us then? Correct. How does us feel about
that? We're good? And kudos to the staff. This is a well thought out criteria so thank you. So are we looking to do
something this year or? Well perhaps I misphrased it because I thought a
recommendation would be made then regarding the number of awards and the
criteria. So you have the the direction would be to move forward with both
awards. Okay. That's the direction of the board and so when that time comes to take
nominations we'll be taking nominations for both a small business and a large
business award with these criteria so that's when it will come back to the
board. So there's no formal action needed. I think my question was since the award
is September right? Correct. So we're looking forward to doing two awards in
September. Correct. And so when did you tell them when the nominations will be? We may
want to back it up a month from what's listed because right now if you would
like to mark your calendars we have a date of September 20th for the Mayor
Council breakfast. Normally we do these on Thursdays but Thursday the 19th is
the Chamber's board meeting and we don't want to have businesses that are trying
to fit a breakfast in and an important board meeting in as well. So we're going
to look at Friday the 20th and that means that we probably should back up
nominations to June. Have you all make a selection in July or at the very
latest August? I'm accounting for what might happen if for whatever reason we
don't have a quorum during the summer months. Okay I think that means that we
would need nominations at the next meeting. We'll certainly make sure to
provide that information to the board. Is this date to 9/20 is that the current
date for the Mayor's breakfast? Correct. Okay. Thank you. Location to be determined.
We promise we'll tell you where it is. Yeah. Any other information Michelle?
Okay thank you for your presentation. Okay concluding items. Okay if you don't
mind I'm I think I'm supposed to read this. So you do not have to read them. We
don't we don't have to. Nope. Okay so how do we how do you how should we address
it Jessica? Just open it up if the board has any concluding items anything that
they'd like to see come forward on a future agenda or any type of
recognition that they'd like to make at this time. Concluding items or feature
agenda items from the floor. I do have a question. Just to see if the cultural the cultural district
presentation will come through this board as well. It won't come through this board
no because that will actually go through the Public Art Committee first. We can
definitely bring it back to this board in June. I'm not sure what date the June
meeting is off the top of my head but we can put that certainly and do a brief
presentation if that is requested. I know that it has pretty significant economic
development associated with it so at some point even after the application or
just an update on. Sure we can add that to the June meeting absolutely. June 12th is
what Erica told me. Any other items, agenda items?
This week is economic development week, small business week, and national travel tourism week.
So, shop, local, travel, and sterling. Any other items? I do have a request if you don't mind. I was
wondering if we could take a photo of our economic development board for
posterity sake. Is that out of order? Sure. No, not out of order. Yes you can do it.
Can we get a staff member to do that for us? Sure. Do you want to join the meeting?
We can do it after the meeting. Okay. Any other items? Okay there being none I'll
entertain a motion to adjourn. Okay all in favor signify by saying aye. Thank you very much.