Yeah, really good morning. Can you hear me? It's 11 o'clock. I'm going to call to order. Welcome everyone and then call to order this Lafayette redevelopment, March Lafayette redevelopment Commission meeting. And so let's begin the first side among the agenda is our minutes we all received a minute and I'm last if there are any additions, corrections or thoughts on the minutes from our February meeting. And if not, I'll entertain a motion to approve those minutes. Move to approve. Second. It's been moved and seconded all in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. I mean, it's approved. It's time for Dennis to lead us through the agenda. All right. Under new business, our first item here is resolution LRC 2025-02. And this is a resolution of the Lafayette redevelopment Commission accepting an offer to purchase real estate wall bash avenue. As you know, we solicited interested parties for some railroad relocation land and RSK management put in an offer on that in the amount of $47,250. And this is the form of a resolution to transfer the property to RSK. So we're all familiar with that. Are there questions or can we move to or can we proceed on that? Brother Turma, I'll make award again that's with William Charles they were the low bidder. And the last meeting was received four bids for the contractors and the lowest bid was with William Charles and so these next items asking for approval. The first one is the recommendation notice of award. Again, that's with William Charles. They were the low bidder and that low bid was in the amount of 2,383,000. We are looking to accept alternate one and two, but not alternate three. Alternate one was 7,500 and alternate two was 12,000. So the total of the, notice for the award is 2,400, 2500. Questions on this award? No, none. Okay. Phase six, I'll seek a motion to proceed. Yes, I would move to approve the notice of the award to wing-challest construction with alternate number one and number two. So I could move the second at all in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Thank you, moving on. The next item is the agreement with William Charles. I'm asking your approval for that. Give me that again. Next item is the agreement with William Charles company for the project. Oh, yeah. So there's no questions. I make a motion that we approve the agreement. And say. Move the second to have them proceed all in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Both may none. And the last item under here is the notice to proceed for William Charles and that is to for them to start work April 3rd 2025 with substantial completion by November 1st and final completion by December 1st of this year. I move we grant notice proceed. Moved and seconded all in favor, she can find by saying aye. Aye. Motion carried. Our next item is with B representative. This is for the third and fourth street conversion project, this is amendment number two. They have done an extra work for the project. One, the project extended a little bit longer than we anticipated, and they also were working on the final quantities. A change order that will be coming to you next month for the project and then continuing work to close out the project. So the original contract value, but then was $42,000. Amendment number one was $18,000. This amendment number two was, we're $16,800 for a total contract value of $76,800. And I'm asking for your approval. Any questions about these? It's not our entertainer motion. I'm curious. Oh, I'm pleased. And Dennis, I think I heard you, but this contract amount is almost doubled. So were there unforeseen circumstances on anticipated circumstances? Or are some other things that just caused a delay? Yes. I think you said something about delay, but it wasn't clear to me when you said it. I don't leave I come up and talk a little bit about, but yeah, we had a lot with the traffic polls in particular. We had a lot of issues with that. It was mainly with the polls themselves. They came in actually after the original substantial completion date, so the contract really didn't finish up the work until it was about the end of October by the time I really all got put together. That, and we had some issues with the conduct. The project was planning on using the existing conduit across the road. All those conduits were completely deteriorated, which we had to, now we pretty much doubled the amount of crossings we had in the road too, which kind of doubled the contractor's work. So I was out there to make sure the road patches were put in correctly and keep the contractors moving. But for the most part, the project pretty much doubled in longevity. Thank you. Yes. Thank you. Appreciate that. We do run into that. Those discoveries from time to time. This is one of those obviously. Yes. Are there any other questions? So I'll entertain a motion to proceed on this. Brother Chairman, I make a motion that we approved the total amount of $76,800 for the burden of forestry conversion. Second. Moving second. All in favor, signify by saying aye. Aye. Moving on. The next item is with grounded solutions network. This is a technical assistance agreement. As you know affordable housing is an issue here. It's an issue nationwide and grounded solutions is a national leader and promotion of affordable housing through community land trust. These community land trust are not profit organizations governed by a board that provide lasting community assets and share equity, home ownership opportunities for families of communities. They can help support affordable housing and owner occupied housing projects and conserve land over urban green spaces. Center for the work of this is the creation of homes that remain permanently affordable, providing successful home ownership opportunities for generations of local, of lower income families. So basically how it works is a family or individual purchases a house that sits on land owned by the land trust. The purchase price is more affordable because the homeowner is buying just the house not the land. And the homeowner enters into a lease with the land trust for that's renewable over a 99 year period. And then the homeowner agrees to sell the home at a restricted price to keep it affordable and in perpetuity. But they are also able to realize appreciation and improvements over time as well too. So this organization, again, granted solutions is, it can provide as technical assistance to explore the feasibility of creating a community land trust here for the City of Lafayette in our areas and such. So they will come here and we will convene several meetings and convene people that are interested in this, particularly housing providers and other not-for-profit agencies will again go through this process of explaining that the feasibility of it and then they'll give us a report and then we'll look at potential next steps from there. So the cost of this is $12,000 and we are asking for your approval. So for $12,000 we will employ them to introduce this housing project and other community. I mean, we're not the pilot of this. This is an established program. Are we familiar with it? It's an established program across the US. It's pretty new in Indiana. South Bend has been looking into it. I think they have a program that has fairly recently kicked off. And Indianapolis has a fledgling program, I believe as well too. But it's pretty new for Indiana, but it's pretty common and a lot of other states. Yes. So, with our support of this, at $12,000 does it run indefinitely? I mean, are we done funding it from ours now? This is just the the beginning? This is going to be this first step release is going to be getting up the speed about the community land trust work and exploring the feasibility of it. Is that something that we could make work here? Is there other questions? Is the home acquired and rehabbed are these mostly new constructions that go on the land trust land. They can be either. So likely we'll be working with like Habitat for Humanity and Faith CDC. The type of not-for-profit organizations that provide affordable housing. So as it works right now, they sell the house and the land. So with with a community land trust this separate not-for-profit would own the underlying land and then the home owner or the recipient would again just be purchasing the house. So it makes it more affordable but what's more important is it really helps because we put a lot of subsidy in these with home funds and other things. This will help keep that home in perpetuity affordable because there'll be certain restrictions on it, particularly on resale and such and everything. So we could have that housing stock, that affordable housing stock for a longer period of time. So going forward, I mean, we're doing some seed money right now to help process and establish that it's feasible, but at some point, like you said, they're not for profits. We're in someone's gonna put more money into it and make the acquisitions possible. We're not gonna be acquiring the land necessarily, are we? They're not for profit, maybe. Yes, but I'm an division, for example, with Habitat for Humanity, they get lots from various forces and such. They would put those lots into the lay out cost. That's a great idea. Yeah. This is Billy's study determined the appropriate location of this type of project, or do we as a city, say what portion of the city we want to use to make them? Yeah, we will decide where that is. And again, like working with Habitat, for example, wherever those lots happen to be, may go into the land trust, but yeah, we'll make those decisions or what land would go into the trust. So you've mentioned Habitat and used the word not for profit. Are those within the scope of the project in mentioned stakeholders that there would be a gathering and each of these presentations will be tailored to stakeholders? Is it just habitat or what other companies can you name as stakeholders? And or individuals for for example United Way right now has a big affordable housing initiative so I imagine we're going to involve them as well. There'll be probably other people from the city as well. If anybody on the commission would like to be involved I mean general public. No, probably not general public per se but you know'll be inviting people that will have interest, but we'll put it out there to see who may have interest as well. Developers. Yeah, well, and I will add with what Dennis, this is really just the very first step as he kind of explained there's not really a good active community land trust ending in Indiana. And so part of what grounded solutions is going to do, it really is a feasibility study at this point, because there are some hurdles that we might need to overcome with things such as like property taxes and things like that. So this is really just, let's dip our toes in, see if this is something that might possibly work. And then we will start getting into all of those details on how a program would actually work. So there's a part of the contract and I kind of alluded to Jack and we have a question about the law. I think it's on page five. It says that the entire contract is going to be in accordance with the laws of the state of California. That's not uncommon. That's not uncommon. Yeah, it's not uncommon. So we're ready for that. It's not uncommon because when you have companies that operate in various jurisdictions and things like that, you will have that. So that is not anything that I flag as a concern necessarily in most contracts. Okay, and my final question is, so this Dave Smith guy, who's named on this contract, is that someone that we are familiar with? Obviously you talked about the reputation of the company itself, but Mr. Smith, is there some familiarity with him at all? Yeah, he's part of the Ground of Solutions Network organization, so that there will be him and there will be a couple other folks from that organization working with us on this. But he's not someone we worked with before. He's not someone who was recommended by another Economic Development Department or something like that. The company may have been, but I'm speaking specifically about Mrs. Smith. He wasn't recommended by anybody in particular now. That's fine. Yeah. Okay I appreciate that. As a part of that. Anyone? somebody sure make a recommendation here. I'm like a motion that we do the physical we're into this table. We met. I move that we enter to the agreement with Grounded Solutions Network. Screw that up. You can second it, man. and check it all all in favor. Signify by saying aye. All right. Moving on. As long as we get it through. Okay. And last item of new business here is with HWC engineering. This is for the Main Street Street Scape Project. This is for Project owner representation and inspection. I'm Katherine P's here from HWC, so I'll let her explain a little bit more about the details. Great, thank you. So this is for the same project that you just approved, the contractor of William Trial is to move forward with Lafayette Phase 6, Street Escape, Main Street and Night Street. So as with previous phases, the city's typically hired an inspection contract with a consultant. So HWC has done several of the previous phases, but we would basically have the contract is asking for full time inspections. So we'd have a resident project representative who would be out on site observing the contractor's work and coordinating back with the city and with the design team. And then also included in that is construction admin time for the design team to review RFIs and coordinate with the contractor review submittals, things like that. So this is the same kind of set up as the last phase, phase five. So we're just, they would have, we would be doing this work from April, because we'll just get started here and then go all the way through December as Dennis mentioned previously. And it's all hourly not to exceed. So it's based on our estimates and then we'll use what we use and then if we hit that limit we stop. But if we come short of it you don't pay the rest of it. So let me know if you have any questions questions. Thank you. Is there a motion to be made? Don't move. Move looking for a second. Second. Move the second it all in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Moving on. So that completes that. We're ready for a director's report. Yes. And we've got to hand out to you. I want to give you a little update on the John Perdue lock project. It's coming along very nicely. Right now obviously you see there's it's kind of one big hole right now. They are putting in quite a bit of infrastructure in. So since September 5th, when they closed on the financing, they have obviously seen the demolished the building that was there, that done the site excavation. They've relocated some of the fiber and electrical. They're starting to put in the concrete foundations. And in particular, the three stair towers, as you can see, there's two of them. One's completed now, the second one will be completed very soon, and the third one will begin very soon. And they've also put in, you can see, there's a big underground detention area that's being poured for the project on the site. And then the interior demolition has been finished for the existing John Purdue block building. So, their upcoming work, they'll be completing the remaining site work, particularly on the southern part of the site, making some of the utility connections like the water main. They'll soon see a tower erected on the site for the project, and they'll start working on the parking garage, in that concrete, finish that third stair tower and then start working on a little bit on the jump or do block building as well too but with a window and roof replacement. So it's going very well, pretty excited about it. Yeah, we remind me, this picture of this interior thing I think is what you. That's part of the building that's still existing. Yes. But I can't see it in my head. I see the restaurant on the corner on this side, come to cross the bridge. I have a cross the bridge. That's the building. Yeah, that's the building. Okay. Thank you. Yeah. And then this is going to be a question you suggest I don't have the answer to but I'm asking it. I'm just and it's just curiosity. You know, everything that's happened down there on this side of the river. Have there been any real water issues in terms of buildings that are being built, the new buildings and or what do they do to prevent that? What kind of issues? Water. Yeah. Oh yeah, the river. Yeah. So I'm just curious again. Yeah. They didn't run into really many problems with this particular project, but when the the Mark project, when they did that and that because they did a lot of underground excavation as well too, they had to do a lot of dewatering on that on that particular project because they hit the water table a lot, you know, more shallow than they thought they were going to. So it does run into an issue. I mean, actually, we run into water issues all over the place really with a lot of our projects. The water table here is relatively high in a lot of places. Okay. Thanks. Just serious again. Yeah. A powerful presence on the corner and then there's so much construction going on. You drive through campus and there are about four or things going on. I apparently we've got the workforce to keep up with all of it and this one's going fine. And it's estimated completion date. Remind me. It probably be mid-summer 26. Okay. Thank you. Any other components to your director's report? Yes, I'd also like to introduce Michael Senet. He's our new hire for our department taking John Collier's place. So we're excited to have him on board. Michael previously worked for the Office of Rulow Community Affairs with the state of Indiana and several positions in the state of Illinois in various cities and towns as well. So we're excited to have him on board. So he'll be taking over again the duties and things that John was doing particularly historic preservation in the parking commission but also working with all these other projects as well. Including the parking commission? Parking commission, yep. Welcome Michael. Thanks for coming to the meeting By the way, I got a couple Yeah, take it to Michael That's all I have. So I'm Jim I was at you to help with claims. If that's where we are, could you take care of what you take care of for us? If there's no questions concerning the claims, I would make a total that we accept that claims totaling $3,325,999.43. That's today March 27, 2025. Second. It's moved and seconded all in favor of the claims as reported, signify by saying aye. Aye. Moving on. Public comment. Public comment. Are we? Public comment or anything up here? Is there any comments from the visitors out there? Here's your chance, Michael. Yeah. We'll let you have a shot every week or every month. How's that sound? If we've completed our agenda, I will entertain a motion for adjournment. So moved. Moved in a second. Moved in a second. This meeting is adjourned. Thanks again for coming.