04-06-21 Business Improvement District Minutes2017 — 2027 KALISPELL BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT BOARD MEETING MINUTES
Meeting date: April 6, 2021
Location: Montana Modern Fine Art
BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT: Marshall Noice, Curtis Bartel, Kisa Davison (by Zoom), Pam Mower,
Gabe Mariman (by Zoom) Cara Lemire &Pam Carbonari (BID Exec. Coordinator)
BOARD MEMBERS ABSENT: Jon Fetveit
CITY ATTENDEES: Katharine King
PUBLIC IN ATTENDANCE: Catherine Hooper Potter
MEETING CALLED TO ORDER at 8:40 AM by Kisa Davison, Chair
MOTION: to approve the agenda dated April 6 and the minutes of March 2 by Marshall Noice with a
second from Cara Lemire. Motion passed unanimously.
INTRODUCTIONS
HEARING OF THE PUBLIC: Katharine King, City of Kalispell informed the board that the draft
historic design standards will be going before the Planning Board on April 13 at 6:00. Marshall Noice
will attend as a representative from the BID Board. Additionally, the Urban Renewal Board which is
chaired by Mark Rold is looking for a new member. Applications are due by 4/12/21. The Urban
Renewal Board oversees TIF and Brownfield projects. They will be overseeing the 3rd & Main
Building project.
Catherine Hooper was in attendance to observe. She did indicate that an internationally renowned
artist will be doing an art installation in her 6t" Ave. W. building (the old brewery building). The art
installation will feature recycling and preservation of water.
BUSINESS
Facade Grant —Revisit Nail Toepia grant — In February Nail Toepia was approved for a facade
grant. Since that time there has been a change in the signage and the removal of the awning from the
facade improvements. The new estimate for the signage only will be $8,954.00. The board
approved the new amended grant in the amount of $4,477.00.
Walking Tour Guide update — The next virtual passport will be the Walking Tour passport.
Discussion was held about taking new photos of the buildings for the passport. After discussion
Marshall made a motion to get bids from three photographers to take colored photos of all of the
buildings. The motion was seconded by Pam Mower and passed unanimously. Pam Carbonari will
contact Bandwango to determine how to upload the photos and we will utilize Rita Fitzsimmons with
Design Works to update the written stories about each building. The board offered the names of
three photographers to solicit bids from; Trevon Baker, Heidi Long and Daniel Verardo.
Budget 2021 — 2022 discussion- Cara Lemire is looking into potential new holiday decorations. If
the decision is made to purchase some new decorations the funds will come from the Development
Activity line in the budget. There was discussion regarding the maximum $5,000 fagade grant per
application. It was determined to keep the maximum at $5,000. The City was checking the revenue
numbers that they anticipate for the next budget cycle. There could be an increase of $20,000 but we
have not heard back from them as of this discussion. If there is an increase of $20,000 the board
would like to increase the Fagade grant line by $10,000 and add $10,000 more to the Development
Activity line item. There was beginning discussion regarding the independent contractor contracts.
The board would like to have more discussion time and requested that Pam C. set up a Zoom call
with the board members on Friday, April 9 at 8:30 to discuss the contracts. The board discussed the
possibility of working on electronic marketing for developer attraction. Perhaps developing a website
that new people and developers would have access to monthly newsletters discussion opportunities
in our community. Catherine Hooper encouraged us to move this forward and suggested that we look
at a great site boisedevelopment.com .
The budget & budget letter will be back on the agenda for the meeting next month.
OLD Business: KAOS hopes to have the Forest Buddies artistic bike rack mounted sometime within
the next two months.
New Business:
• Curtis has a contract on his building and will be relocating to another location not in the BID.
He will resign from the board the end of April.
• Lemire and Company bought the old Cardinal True Value Hardware store on the corner of
Center Street and 7t" Ave. W and other properties on the same block. All buildings will be torn
down in the future and developed into a live/work development.
• The design phase for the property on the SE corner of 3rd St. E. and 2nd Ave. E. has entered
into their design phase. The building will be occupied as Black Rifle Coffee Company and their
intention is to have this store be their Flag Ship location. They intend to remove onsite parking
and create a park space east of the building.
• A reminder that the development committee will be meeting at MWED on Wednesday, April 7
at 9:00 AM.
ADJOURN: Motion to adjourn the meeting at 10:10 AM by Marshall Noice with a second from Cara
Lemire. The motion passed unanimously.
NEXT REGULAR MEETING: Tuesday, May 4, 2021 at 8:30 AM — Montana Modern Fine Art,
127 Main Street.
Respectfully submitted,
Pam Carbonari
Executive Coordinator