08-15-18 Urban Renewal Agency MinutesCITY City of Kalispell
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MONTANA
Meeting Summary
URBAN RENEWAL AGENCY BOARD
AUGUST 15, 2018 — 4 P.M.
CITY HALL — FIRST FLOOR CONFERENCE ROOM
MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE OTHERS IN ATTENDANCE
Chairman Marc Rold Katharine King, Assistant Director Comm. & Econ. Dev.
Jeff Zauner Krista Lammers, Community & Economic Development
David Girardot
Chairman Rold called the meeting to order and welcomed Board and city staff.
PUBLIC COMMENT
APPROVAL OF MEETING SUMMARY
Passed unanimously.
TIF & TEDD UPDATES
Mike Brodie, WGM Engineer, shared the attached Airport Road Intersection Improvements Design
and Alternative Summary. Board will review alternatives and make recommendation to City Council
at September meeting.
The City continues to work on the Northwest Drywall relocation package and will share details with
the Board at next month's meeting.
2018 Certified Taxable Valuations for the TIF and TEDD districts were distributed. West Side and
South Kalispell TIF district values are down from last year. The City will talk with the Montana
Department of Revenue to discuss value decreases.
BUSINESS
Kalispell recently received an Opportunity Zone designation by Governor Steve Bullock. The census
track designated as the Opportunity Zone was viewed. Currently, rules are still being created for the
designation, Katharine King will share more information about the designation and its benefits as
they become available.
TIGER/KALISPELL CORE gc RAIL REDEVELOPMENT
Kalispell Trail and Complete Street Deep Dive Week saw over 600 visitors, project consultants
commented that this was a level of community involvement they had not encountered before. The
week's events culminated in a Friday open house where three trail designs were shared with the
community. Consultants continue to work on project design, engineering, permitting and analysis
and will share developments with the URA Board and community as they occur.
Glacier Rail Park construction is ahead of schedule and slated to be complete in September or
October of this year. The CHS building permit will be ready this week with fertilizer plant construction
projected to be completed by December followed by the rest of the facility in February or March of
next year. Northwest Drywall will begin construction this month and looks to be complete in
December or January followed by relocation to the new facility.
BROWNFIELDS PROGRAM UPDATES
The EPA has approved Phase II Environmental Site Assessments for structures only/hazardous testing only on
both the CHS Agronomy and CHS Country Store sites.
NEXT SCHEDULED MEETING
The Board next meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, September 19t" at 4 p.m.
ADJOURNED
Chairman Rold adjourned the meeting.