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Meeting Summary
URBAN RENEWAL AGENCY BOARD
JANUARY 17, 2024-4 P.M.
CITY HALL—LOWER-LEVEL CONFERENCE ROOM AND VIA ZOOM
MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE OTHERS IN ATTENDANCE
Marc Rold Jarod Nygren, Development Services Director
Dave Girardot Katharine King, Community Development Manager
Catherine Potter via Zoom
Cara Lemire via Zoom
PUBLIC COMMENT
None.
PREVIOUS MEETING SUMMARY
December meeting summary accepted.
TIF&TEDD
Safe Streets and Roads For All Safety Action Plan contract with Kittelson &Associates is in place. Staff have
met with Kittelson regarding the project scope of work, schedule and first order tasks.
City Council voted increase TIF policy funding level limits at the January 16, 2024, meeting as recommended
by the URA.
The Kalispell Business Improvement District(BID) is considering a Downtown TIF application for planning
strategies to improve downtown. The framework of this effort is still being developed and it is hoped to have
the application prepared in time for the February URA meeting. As BID Board Chair Kisa Davison spoke to the
application because the BID Director,Jamie Keller, was unable to attend due to severe weather event.
Staff have drafted a request for proposals (RFP)for the entrance/welcome to Kalispell sign project to be
installed on the pedestrian bridge over Highway 2 at the east entrance to the city. This RFP will be refined and
published for a 30-day period. It is expected the RFP will be in advertisement before the February URA
meeting.
An application for Westside/Core Area TIF funds is under consideration for the Trippel Property on the west,
north side of the Parkline Trail for redevelopment and expansion of a locally owned and operated business.
The property is a wholly surrounded county site with no current access to city services which will be required
for redevelopment. Infrastructure at the site and its immediate surroundings on 81"Avenue West North are
inadequate in a number of ways to serve future development. The issues include shallow and undersized
sewer and stormwater pipes and systems, in at least one location with sewer line running directly under an
existing business. Over five acres of property in this previously industrial area containing some eight
properties stand to benefit from the construction of the infrastructure making this project a strong candidate
for public infrastructure funding under the TIF (shared utilities program). The potential purchaser of the
Trippel Property, Kisa Davison, is conducting the activities of due diligence and attended this URA meeting to
workshop the issues for redevelopment of the subject property and the area more generally. Additionally,
WGM Group engineer Mike Brodie attended the meeting and addressed questions from the committee. It is
anticipated Ms. Davison will submit a TIF application for the URA to consider at the February meeting.
BROWNFIELDS
Working with Montana DEQ's Brownfields TBA program, two phase I environmental site assessments (ESA's)
have been completed in support of property sales in the Core Area. We will work with these project
developers in the event clean-up loans are appropriate.
NEXT SCHEDULED MEETING
The Board's next meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, February 21, 2024,at 4 p.m.
Meeting adjourned.