MINUTES
The Village of Evendale
Regular Council Meeting
April 9th, 2013
The Village of Evendale Regular Council Meeting was called to order by Mayor Don Apking at 7:00pm.
Roll call- The following council members were present: Mayor Don Apking, Mr. Stiney Vonderhaar, Mr. John Ranz, Jr., Mr. Jeff Albrinck, Mr. Doug Lohmeier, and Mr. Chris Schaefer. Also present: Police Chief Niel Korte; Fire Chief, Mike Hauck; Village Solicitor, Tim Burke, Assistant to the Mayor, Jack Cameron, Recreation Director Dave Nichols and CFO Cynthia Caracci.
Mayor Apking presented the consent calendar. The motion to accept the consent calendar was made by Ms. Hartman, seconded by Mr. Vonderhaar and unanimously approved.
Committee Reports:
Police, Fire, Recreation Council Committee:
The Fire Department has six candidates that will come before the hiring committee on April 29th at 3:00pm. Psychological & Medical testing will be completed post offer with a tentative swearing in for the May council meeting. Also Motorola has deemed portions of our current radio equipment obsolete. Both PD & FD are exploring options for the future.
Finance, Administration, Service, Engineering and GHF Committee:
Earning tax was down a bit for the month due to pay period adjustments.
Presentation of Ordinances and Resolutions:
The Mayor presented ORDINANCE #13-16 ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR TO EXECUTE AN INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT FOR A GOVERNMENTAL ENTITY WITH FIFTH THIRD BANK, AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. Discussion: A representative from Fifth Third Investments attended the meeting. Currently the funds are sitting in a money market with very low returns. The Portfolio Manager Investment Group is bound by the risk levels set in the contract. The contact has a 30 day terminable agreement. A motion to read ORD. #13-16 by title only was made by Mr. Schaefer, seconded by Mr. Vonderhaar and unanimously approved on roll call. A motion to suspend the second and third readings of ORD. #13-16 was made by Mr. Schaefer, seconded by Mr. Albrinck and unanimously approved on roll call. A
motion to agree to the emergency section is made by Mr. Albrinck, seconded by Ms. Hartman and unanimously approved on roll call. A motion to adopt ORD. #13-16 was made by Ms. Hartman, seconded by Mr. Schaefer and unanimously approved on roll call. Mayor Apking declared ORD. #13-16 adopted as an emergency.
Other Business:
CIC discussion: Copies of the memorandum was distributed to council members. Discussion is how to transfer properties or have the CIC act as the agent of the properties. All 6 members were agreement that CIC should be involved. Mr. Burke has a list of questions on what the intention of Council is and what they feel the level of participation should be for the CIC. The memorandum listed other questions such as maintenance, insurance etc before a contract was drawn up. Community Improvement Corp has 3 council members and their sole charge is economic development of the Village. Council needs to be comfortable with CIC and to come up with an agreement. Perimeters on the property are set up for the properties involved such as tax generation, tax base, unique and desirable service
brought to the Village and quality of place. CIC needs the ability to react quickly. There are 4 target areas that CIC identified-the area of the old Fifth Third bank, vacant property on both sides of Inwood Drive, and the TLC Property. Mr. Schaefer thinks the property should be kept in the Villages name and CIC be authorized to act as the agent. Mr. Cameron does not believe CIC needs additional funds. CIC has to figure out fair market price and then Council needs to agree with the amount they can discount. Mr. Lohmeier stated that he did not know how much authority he wanted to give to the CIC. Mr. Schaefer stated that CIC has been involved in the Business Ready Plan Council and ready to be actively involved with the development. The St. Rita Lane property will have to come back to Council because it is a planned development. Based on feedback from discussion, a ordinance will be drafted. CIC recommends 50% discount
off of fair market price because asking the prospective property owner to do many improvements. Mr. Albrinck said the discussion at CIC was what the vision of Council is to make sure everyone was on the same page. Three of the six council members are on CIC. Ms. Hartman stated that Council needs to trust in the people they put on these commissions. The Council Members not on CIC would like to be added to the draft minutes. Discussion took place on the discount amount. The % gives CIC the ability to incentive the property sale and agreement what benefits would be brought to the village regarding jobs, tax revenue, quality of life etc. CIC thinks 25% is too little and would like 50%. Mr. Ranz thinks 50% is too high. Larger discounts could be given on a individual basis. Council agreed with 35% discount on sale of property. CIC will discuss the % amount and the ground lease wording. Mr. Lohmeier stated that
he felt the property should be kept in the Villages name, CIC act as agent, proceeds of the sale should come back to the general fund and the CIC arrangement should be 3 years.
A motion to adjourn was made by Mr. Vonderhaar and seconded by Mr. Albrinck and unanimously approved on roll call. Meeting was adjourned at 8:00pm.
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Mayor
Attest:
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Village Clerk
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