07-05-90 Development Comm Minutes0 :.
Minutes
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Thursday" Ti,,I 5. 1QQ0 - 4.00 p.m -
Attendees: Noel Furlong, Chairman, D. Larson, B. Moses, all Committee
Members; Susan Moyer and Ross Plambeck, Community
Development Department; Mayor Roger Hopkins; and visitor
Mayoral Candidate Doug Rauthe
The meeting was called to order at 4:00 p.m. in the Community Development
office. The following items were discussed:
1. A report was given on the Public Hearing held for CDBG potential
activities. In essence, the turnout at the hearing was small and one
eligible activity was requested by the attendees. The request was for
the City to apply for a housing rehabilitation grant for the Southwest
Kalispell area. Other items addressed were: Bicycle trails throughout
the City and connecting to other areas within the valley and a shelter
for the homeless. Bicycle trails would not be an eligible item in
benefiting 80% of the low -to -moderate income city residents, and the
shelter for the homeless proponents need further organization before
they would be in a position this year to accomplish this.
2. A request was made by the staff to update the Flood -plain Map for the
lower southwest area of the City. The purpose of this update is to
facilitate the issuance of building permits by the Building
• Official/Flood- Plain Administrator, addressing the possibility of
dyking the Sunnyside end of Southwest Kalispell to take those homes out
of the floor -plain area, and to eliminate a hurdle in CDBG grant
competition that the Department of Commerce is stringent on. The fee
will range from $5,500 to $7,800 depending upon availability of any "as -
built drawings" of the Ashley Creek structures. It should be noted
here, that efforts have failed to locate "as-builts" existing from the
Craver subdivision creation. Should detailed maps be created from
photogrametric methods, the fee will increase $4,000 to $6,000 depending
on actual study acreage involved. FEMA would prefer and more readily
process the revisions if they are flown. Duane Larson made the motion
to recommend to council that the study be conducted; however, the motion
was qualified in that much more detail as to the costs involved be
available at the time the recommendation for approval is made. Ross is
to contact Billmeyer for the additional data.
3. 1990-1991 Budget Requests: The 1990-1991 UDAG Budget was submitted for
Committee approval. The Mayor requested $5,000 for the contract
services line item as the City's contribution to a study to be done on
the potential of a sports complex. After much debate, the sum of $3,000
was approved to be recommended to the council as the City's share.
$9,481 was moved from Redevelopment Planning to help cover the Flood -
plain study, and the balance of $3,519 as well as the $3,000 for the
sports complex was taken temporarily from housing funds. Additionally,
$2,000 was moved into a new line item for this year only identified as
"Recruitment." Mayor Hopkins presented a TIF Budget Request in a total
amount of $103,391 to modify and update signalized intersections on:
Main and Center; Main and Idaho, Idaho and 3rd Ave. E.N.; and Idaho and
5th Ave. W.N.. $54,728 of this request was for work on the light at
Idaho and 5th Ave.W.N. which is two blocks out of the TIF District.
Noel Furlong requested the mayor visit with some of the strong community
leaders to see if pressure could be put on the State to either fund this
in total or in part at the time they redo Highway 93 North.
Four housing rehabilitation applications were approved to be put out to
bid. The addresses of the units are: 720 Second Avenue West, 312
Fourth Avenue West, 837 Fourth Avenue West, and 418 Sixth Avenue West.
It should be noted that all four applications are full grant requests.
The Mayor reported on Larry Gallagher's presentation for real estate
counseling services on behalf of the City's involvement in the Equity
Supply's potential relocation. After a morning session with Nathan Byrd
and two of his board members; Larry Gallagher; TIF members Steve Olson.
Bob Gerhardt, Jim Meyers, Chuck Mercord, Jack King, Hank Good, Paul
Wachholz and Wayne Saverud; Council members Barbara Moses and Noel
Furlong; the Mayor; and the CDD staff, the TIF Committee met over lunch
to analyze the proposal and the potential of Equity's moving. The TIF
members decided to recommend to Council that Larry Gallagher be
contracted to analyze the various City properties and seek developers
for the various real estate holdings in general. The Mayor requested
Larry to revise his Scope of Work accordingly, and Larry indicated he
would have it in the mail the first part of next week. The Community
Development Committee concurred, and will inform Council of both
recommendations.
The meeting was adjourned at 6:30 p.m.
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