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Minutes 9/19/06
CITY OF MCCALL
URBAN RENEWAL AGENCY
Meeting Minutes
September 19, 2006
1. CALL TO ORDER AND ROLL CALL
The meeting was called to order at 8:10 AM. Present were Chairman
Rick Fereday, John Watkins, Bonnie Bertram, Scott Findlay and Don
Bailey. Quorum present. Fred Drake and Robin Gerblick were absent.
2. MINUTES
a. August 7 URA Board Meeting
b. August 15 URA Board Meeting
c. August 18 URA Board Meeting
A motion was made by Don Bailey and seconded by Scott Findlay that
the minutes from the August 7, August 15, and August 18, 2006 URA
Meetings be approved as read; motion carried.
3. APPROVAL OF EXPENDITURES
a. CH2M Hill August invoice
John Larson advised there is a description of services performed at
the top of the invoice. This is basically coordination time for that
billing period. There were meetings, survey time, drafting
associated with the street layout and services. This also includes
some office accounting from CH2MHill and a $5,000 bill from Otak.
Rick Fereday asked John if this is all within the scope of the purchase
order. John advised that it is.
Don Bailey made a motion to approve the July 28, 2006 invoice of
$26,385.29, Scott Findlay seconded the motion; the motion carried.
b. Bond Administration invoice
Chairman Rick Fereday advised this is the ongoing U.S. Bank fees for
administrative fees and for them to act as trustees.
Bonnie Bertram made a motion to approve the bond administration
invoice, Scott Findlay seconded the motion; the motion carried.
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4. 2006-2007 URBAN RENEWAL AGENCY BUDGET (Public Hearing)
Chairman Rick Fereday opened the public hearing on the 2006-2007
Urban Renewal Agency Budget. Lindley Kirkpatrick, City Manager,
explained the budget in detail with the board. He advised the URA
they will be building some net funds at the end of the year. Rick
asked John Larson how the numbers look compared to what they
were estimating. John said these numbers are better.
Chairman Rick Fereday asked if there were any comments from the
public. Hearing no comments from the public Rick closed the public
hearing.
There was discussion between the board, Lindley Kirkpatrick and
John Larson regarding the schedule on the bond sale and the revenue
in the bank.
Scott Findlay made a motion to approve the URA 2006-2007 budget,
Bonnie Bertram seconded the motion; motion carried.
5. URBAN RENEWAL PLAN UPDATE
a. Resolution 06-3 Judicial Confirmation
Chairman Rick Fereday asked for comments from the public. Hearing
none Rick asked if the board had any questions. Rick mention that on
page two, item one of Resolution 06-3 the sentence needs to read "in
the amount of $5,040,000.00" not "in the amount stated above".
Scott Findlay made a motion to adopt Resolution 06-3 as amended,
Bonnie Bertram seconded the motion; motion carried.
6. NEW BUSINESS
John Watkins advised the board that he had recently spoken with
Marie Owen and that she is still unsure of the process with the sale of
her property and would like better clarification. She would like to
close before the end of the year. The board agreed this property is
an extremely high priority to the URA and that they are motivated to
make the deal happen.
Bill Shultz representing Silvertip LLC advised the board that they are
interested in purchasing the piece of property URA owns next to the
church. The Silvertip Partners will be in McCall later this afternoon.
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Scott Findlay advised they meet with Lindley. There was discussion
of the property. Don Bailey suggested that the board get the advice
of our City attorney.
Scott Findlay said he feels that the fees being charged for the
amount of work left to do is too high. Lindley suggested this
discussion be put on the next agenda so that we can have a
discussion after everyone has more current information in hand.
John Larson will talk to Otak and tell them to be prepared in two
weeks.
It was agreed among the Urban Renewal board that the next Urban
Renewal meeting be changed to the 3rd of October.
7. ADJOURNMENT
There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 9:45
AM.