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HomeMy Public PortalAboutMinutes - MURA - 2006-09-19City of McCall Urban Renewal Agency 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. City of McCall Urban Renewal Agency Minutes 9/19/06 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. City of McCall Urban Renewal Agency Minutes 9/19/06 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.