02-28-18 Urban Renewal Agency MinutesCity of Kalispell
Post Office Box 1997 - Kalispell, Montana 59903
Telephone: (406) 758-7701 Fax: (406) 758-7758
Meeting Summary
URBAN RENEWAL AGENCY BOARD
FEBRUARY 28, 2018-4 P.M.
CITY HALL — FIRST FLOOR CONFERENCE ROOM
MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE OTHERS IN ATTENDANCE
Chairman Marc Rold
Jeff Zauner
Matt Venturini
Tom Jentz, Planning Director
Katharine Thompson, Asst. Director Comm. & Econ. Dev.
Jarod Nygren, Senior Planner
Shannon Freix Krista Lammers, Community & Economic Development
Mike Brodie, WGM Group
Brad Wright, Core Area Property Owner
Peregrine Frissell, Daily Inter Lake
Chairman Rold called the meeting to order and welcomed the public, Board and city staff.
APPROVAL OF MEETING SUMMARY
Passed unanimously.
BOARD MEMBERTERMS
Chairman Rold and Mr. Zauner will both complete the City's Board Application form for renewal of their terms.
TIF & TEDD UPDATES
Katharine and City Attorney, Charlie Harball, met with commercial realtors from the area to discuss Old School
Station lots that are for sale, the City will maintain this line of communication with the group.
The City and WGM are concluding contract negotiations and will likely begin work in March. City Staff will
inform the Board of negotiations with the Airport Users Group at the next meeting.
Husky Street Developer's Agreement should be signed next week.
CHS has signed the relocation agreements with FCEDA and will begin construction at Glacier Rail Park June 1 of
the year.
SOQs for the Kalispell Trail are currently being reviewed, the committee will narrow the pool of six down to
three next week and look to do interviews mid -March. The City expects to have the selected firm on the
ground the first week in May to begin working with the Trail Crew and public through the very important
community -led planning and design process. The design and engineering process is expected to go through
the fall with final design in late fall and engineering work in the winter so that the tracks can be removed in
2019 and the trail built in 2020.
The Kalispell Trail Crew has been formed as a group of stakeholders and ambassadors to the Kalispell Trail and
Complete Street TIGER Project. The group met in mid -February and will likely meet again in early May to tour
the Kalispell Trail site and meet the planning, design and engineering consultants for the project.
PUBLIC COMMENT
Brad Wright shared documents that were emailed to the Board on 02/22/2018.
BROWNFIELDS PROGRAM UPDATES
With the CHS / FCEDA agreement signed the City can begin the process to conduct Phase II Environmental Site
Assessments (ESA) and possible cleanup planning for the three CHS sites, two of the three sites will be
considered petroleum sites and one a hazardous site as categorized by the EPA. When FCEDA is set to acquire
properties, Phase I ESAs will need to be updated possibly followed by City EPA Revolving Loan Fund dollars for
cleanup.
The next in priority for assessment grant dollars will be the BNSF corridor for Phase I ESA.
TIGER/KALISPELL CORE & RAIL REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT UPDATE
Work continues on schedule at Glacier Rail Park and is slated to be finished November of this year. The
retaining wall on the southern portion of the site is complete - recent drone footage of the site, including the
retaining wall, can be viewed at: http://www.kalispellcoreandrail.com/lacier-rail-park.html
City met with MDT to work toward attaining some grant funding to mitigate some cost for the rail crossing on
the east side of the rail park.
With the signing of the CHS/FCEDA agreement, CHS is projecting a June 1 start date, meaning that project
coordination for simultaneous rail park and CHS construction has begun for city staff, project engineers and
contractors. Northwest Drywall will also begin construction this summer.
Discussion of maintenance plan and funding for the Kalispell Trail and the projected increase in tax increment
financing due to Core Area development and redevelopment were discussed.
NEXT SCHEDULED MEETING
The Board next meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, March 21' at 4 p.m.
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Chairman Rold adjourned the meeting.