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pursuant to the excuse me pursuant to the mo M notices hereby given of the meeting of the FL Riv re Development Authority as follows Wednesday February 28 2024 City call City Hall City Hall Council hearing room the meeting is open to the public to attend in person above reference State time and location and recording the Open Session can be viewed at fall government television ww. FGTV us

recording of this public meeting or may transmit the meeting through any medium attendees are therefore advised that such recording and transmission are being made whether perceived or unperceived by those present and are deemed acknowledged and permissible first item is a roll calls John Ericson L Joan madis Ron Ren thank you also attending our Sarah page our executive director John Coughlin Council

Ken fola administrative service consultant minutes from January 24th 2024 anybody have any questions or comments on those ones motions move second second John eron yes gonz yes Joan Medeiros yes Ron R yes Dan ke yes thank you uh next item is the uh approval of the warrant which you all have total of $ 38,1 16914 any questions on those no motion would the war forward second second John ER yes yes Joan madas

yes Ron yes yes okay next item is election of uh officers Sarah do you need to uh say anything yeah I we just thought I would uh say that tonight and we usually nominate a slate of officers um and vote on the Slate and Lewis is going to make a motion entertain a motion to nominate the following state of candidates for the noted board positions chair John Ericson Vice chair an Kean Treasurer

Joan madas ex official secretary Sarah paage as executive second yeah did somebody second second John yes oh he made the motion yeah l i second it sh border office is probably good you didn't second John yes Joan madus yes Ron Ron yes K yes thank you City Pier is the next item uh Karen's going to give us an update uh yes the docks um I did give you all a a little map with um uh

ABCD locations on it so some of the things want to talk about you be able to kind of locate and figure out so um we I spoke earlier I think it was either in the December or the January meeting that our insurance company did a site inspection and they made two um findings that we needed to comply with before we reopen the docks in the spring which was um no swimming signs and um uh fire

extinguishers along the dock for the boats so I have proceeded with getting pricing on signs from uh the Department of Correction they actually make some lovely uh signs and um the signage it's going to be pretty similar to that no fishing sign that we did on the pier it'll say no swimming surveillance cameras in use and then we're going to do a couple no fishing uh and then we'll have the shepherd

group that um we have the labor unit price contract they'll just um uh install them so that's going to be roughly Al together around $500 didn't actually locate them on that picture um but the fire Stinger cabinets will be wrapped around the piles and they can actually stay out year round we just have to put a new tag on them annually and the new tag annually is going to be roughly $150 for um to go

out and retag them allel and um do that so that's pretty nominal money um the other thing that we talked about was getting um information kiosks out on City Pier um for the docks we were going to put one if you see spot C on the um that little map that I did um that's probably it's going to be to the right of the gate and looking at some of the the signs

that are um that we want to do for dock management and um boting information we were thinking of doing like a it's going to be 4 by8 it'll be on two posts with a little roof over it um with a glass front that's going to have a like it won't be a it'll be like a plexiglass front so we wouldn't be breaking glass um with a lock on it so we can update it

and change signage as needed and um the other one is located in spot a and it's going to be more up on the City Pier property as people are walking around and it will talk about the events um maybe some other stuff that's going on in the city that they would want to know about and our rules and regulations for the pier and that's going to be more of a 4x4 smaller same thing two posts in

the ground with a um like a shingle roof like a little roof over it uh and we've talked I reached out to um Diamond to see if they could work with us on it but they were already booked up for their school year so I reached out to Nicole at um youth build and youth build can build them for us the only thing that we need to do is cover the cost of supplies

and um so now that I've kind of figured out what we're going to need for signage and um things like that I can get that to her and we can work on the supply list and they're good to go to have them installed uh roughly April time frame we were talking about once the ground's all softened up and just as we're getting ready to open everything out there so um not quite sure what the material is

going to cost but um I can't imagine based on everything here I'm going to be as I talk about in more detail we're going to kind of have like a lumps some basket of money for you to approve that we can just draw from as we take out these little ply things um we also need a new trash receptacle for the docks which um I was going to be putting in um

location B and that trash receptacle will be um to match the other ones uh that are up on City Pier and uh I still need to hear back from uh uh the city if if they'll include that when they pick up the rest of the trash barrels I don't think it's going to be a big issue it's one more Barrel right on the same property but you know ask you know you

should ask first I guess um and then the and that's going to be roughly the ones that we got at City PA were $800 each plus shipping so I'm not quite sure what the shipping is going to be I hav I quote back on that yet um so I just roughly ballparked $1,000 um the other thing that we had had talked about putting out there for the season and we would supplement um as

there are events out there is uh a Porton I got some really competitive pricing from the throne Depot and they I was thinking we could get one handicap unit to put out along the fence line by with the doxes I have that as item D and we were going to put a handicap unit out there and I was going to chain it to the fence it's he's going to come weekly to clean

it um and if we see we're having trouble with it or it's a problem we can always remove it but it's been something that people who' have been out there have been asking for is to have some type of a potential restroom so um it may be worth it's $130 a month it's not a massive investment and he gave us some competitive pricing too to add um some um uh just regular units as we have

events out there so um the city will cover um the uh price for the events that they're sponsoring but the events that we're going to sponsor we'd have to bring some out there and I'll go into that as we go into the events um uh details too so um and then the last thing that I we've thrown out there and we've talked a lot about and we've been able to have a couple of meetings now

since our last meeting with the Harbor Master the city and the um Captain Fado from Special Forces about the Harbor Master and um his role um with the city the docks and everything and one of the things that um we discussed and it I think it is could be a really valuable and good idea for us to do is to have him his boat now is over at lond Wen

Marina and um they'd like to move it from there and we had talked with him about having it mored on the the the new docks and I think it could really help with added protection for um the dock area itself and having his presence be there um especially during the Boating season I mean obviously right now and once we close it off with the the docks with the gang way being pulled up it

won't be as much of an issue but he will still be there and will be able to access it as needed um and the only thing that we do need to do is provide him with electrical power to plug the boat in and um I was working with we've got um I've got some electrical pricing and some trenching pricing and that endeavor would be roughly 11 $12,000 12 12 with the dock people too with the

pedestal and everything that would go on there for the electrical so um I think that for the things that we've just talked about they'd roughly be um an Ask of 25,000 to um uh to do those updates or upgrades to the to the the dock property in preparation for boating season and um the other thing that the har Master is gonna do too is he's going to um put

buys out around oh I didn't bring a good picture of it at the end of the north P you know that little spit of land that sticks out there that is you know it's seems more impressive depending on how the high and low um with some depth information so boers can get around that easy enough and um he actually is um going to move so City Pier kind of on the open floor

plan over at State Pier he has a whole locked area over there that he keeps all of his and the um Harbor equipment that he needs for his boats and operation of the ramp and stuff like that and he says there's plenty of room and he can move that in there so we'll have a much more protected um place for our beare parts because there's you know chain Falls things that

many boers might like and need in a Flash that might randomly disappear I don't know it's just nerve-wracking that's in the wide open spot even though it's protected um so those are the um o That's the overall information on the upgrades for for the dock part um any questions yes Ron three questions yes where are the fire signers going to be put are they going to be open to the

public just they're in a cabinet they'll be in a cabinet and um they'll be um be in a cabinet and the cabinet will be unlocked and you can pull from them but so um I for a public if a kid goes in just can he open up and just shoot out anywhere he want to shoot out yep yep that's scary it is you the whole point boat is on fire so why wouldn't we

put it more towards on the dock where the fire might happen where oh that's where they're going to be along the piles on the dock oh so not going to be not going to be on any Pier itself no they're going to be along the piles I think it's every when the Dock's up they can't get down there right the Dock's going to be open all the time right well not in the

winter yeah yeah and um they're going to be like every SE I think it's every 75 feet they have to be is the porter John only going to be there during events or be no it's GNA be there for the summer season I had it I think question with that was is that the best place to put the pter I don't know the only reason I was putting it right there it's kind of it's near a

light um the light pole that's along the boardwalk there and I just didn't want it up on the City Pier proper but um if you guys have a better spot for it I'm game well why why do we need one well it's just been a big request and I think depending should that should the city be opening up their bathroom facility at like Ceno well they should be but we're having enough

events an incredible price for leaving it there yeah if you bring them in for events it's going to cost you way more money than that $130 a month right but first of all you're putting it against the chain I'm not sure from a perception standpoint how in the parking lot you got a beautiful Pier yeah and you got a secondly for handicap access you're going to be Wheeling people across the

the uh well the the dimension it's not so when I dimensioned it out it should it' be just a short run and get a wheelchair in it yeah I'm say but how about the access to it it's so it'll come out I think it's thinking it's going on some grass it's it's six and a it's so the depth of the unit is 86 and2 inches so that is it's going to come yeah so it's going

to come pretty close to the edge of that walkway as it is biger than I thought it's just been something that's been asked a lot whenever I have been out on the pier and um it some of the people like that we have on the events committee people have asked them about it too and it's just a it's just to try it but if you if trying to um bring all options to the

table we lock it at night that's my only thing location and we can lock it we can lock it at night yes well who's going to be responsible yeah so then who's going to unlock it that's the problem but the Harbor Master well the Harbor Master can do certain amount of stuff um but you know depending on I would if you want to do so I put if you want to incur

the expense of a page on i' put it at by Centennial Park as opposed to putting it on a premium piece of property it yeah where whereabouts on or something like that yeah that the city that's we I get no say onent there was port on there but I think well they have bathrooms but they're not always open I'm saying but that would be a better place for a porta

joh we have a lot of businesses closing their restrooms because they don't want somebody going in and shooting up yeah that would be a perfect location last thing we need somebody open up there somebody's dead ins other thing that we could do is you can put a combination pad log on combination pad log and we could end up um you know obviously the harb master would have the combination and if you people would have the

combination and if and if we were out there or it was an event we could tell people what that combination is too we could do that how about this though isn't there isn't there some sort of Wi-Fi here for the cameras on this pier oh yeah can't we put a can we put a lock that we can unlock Wi-Fi well so we that's potentially what we've got on the um the

gate gate um which has um yet to be put into full function for a variety of reasons meaning um I think the lock has been frozen every time I've tried to play around with it and I've got to get the city to get the software on our laptop because you need the laptop to bring down there to get it into to program it to program it yes City but you can just if you bring

your laptop you can just jump off your phone um I so once I get the whole thing set up and ready to program I can get it onto my phone too yes no no no no I'm saying if you bring your laptop right and you bring your phone just like I'm using right now yeah can't you just bring your laptop and but I don't I have to get the software off of a thumb drive

onto I don't have permission to put software on City Computers why would it be on a city computer well that's what we have for equipment we go through the city for our it I get that but why don't the city's it person you could buy a laptop separate from that we could yes why don't the city's it person go do it could I don't I don't think it want to be we've we've I've attempted this

once and since I couldn't even get the lock to go into programming so that has not been given up which we but that's for the gate to the docks not nothing to do with a porta ch right but we just want everything to work that way right in 202 I can change the heat oh so you're saying get a get I don't think I can put that kind of a lock on the on the

Portage on why not because it's a it's a built-in kind of thing it's not like a little we don't own holes that you put a padlock through I don't I have not looked in to see if you can get one like that we just going to ask yeah can ask we ask if we can put that kind of lock on there he doesn't care he doesn't care what is those it's got the holes for the

padlock so you'd have to see if you can get a programmable PL padlock a Wi-Fi enabled pad lock right but maybe we can switch the lock on the on the porter John because the biggest concern is like Leon said off a b something happen but I'm sure there's a way that we can put the same type of locks that we have on our house or something of that sort right because there's different kind of locks

that we have on our house on that Porton and then once we have the system we can unlock the gate we can unlock the the Porton the cameras will all be on everything will just be in one system well it we'll be on one the cameras will be on you whatever wi-fi system controls that it's a network and then it just goes on there and we don't have the real

question though is do you want to do we want a Portage on yeah do we really I think a Porto John's a good idea I understand what he's saying I would put it at by Centennial par think far distance what is it orange or blue the big ones the throne Depot ones are orange oh they got paint that's that's dep are orange I I would I would put it you know if if if

it's such and I understand it you know because people need to go to the bathroom to reli themselves but I I would try to maybe can make a contribution to the city and put it on the the where it's less egregious in terms of but who would we have to clear that way the city had one so they're used to having one there so it's probably the park department or talk to Seth they

used to have one up there it's not going to be convenient for boers though Bo but these are boers are transient boers these you know is it is it by the where yeah the the the whole point is to get off go to restaurants right the fire department's vacing the insurance companies vacing has put on I've never seen a marina with fire extinguishes right maybe the Harbor Master should have them

but well oh usually the boats themselves the boat depending on the size of the boat is supposed to have them every boat has but the I called the fire department and they also want them so it's I think it could be potentially because it's not a requirement I'm not sure about that b Marina is it requirement B Marina I haven't seen I've never seen any Marina have fire extinguishers on but that's a

private monitored property this is not well this is even worse because if we can't which is why we probably want to fire extinguish no it's worse because for vandalism people can go out there people can just take one of those right it's but but I think we were told we had until out there's got to be a better way I'm not sure I mean I will I will bring it back to um um insurance

company I think the problem is is that insurance companies are um not so amable to insuring things these days and um if we're going to fight them on this maybe um it might not be in our best interest um we could try and see if we have an issue and tell them that's it every I think it's every 75 just because they're making us put that could be would if you know if they

vandalized the place with that did they say did they say it was a condition to coverage or it was like a strong it was based on their it's a condition of coverage based on their site visit that in the no swimming sign one last question Karen on the H Master boat being down here yeah what if he gets like a 2 o00 in the morning so we jump on the bridge

he has to get to his boat how does he get that ramp if it's going to be can he put it down himself well it'll be down it'll be it'll be down in the winter yeah but what if tomorrow somebody jumps off the bridge and he needs to get to his boat if that ramps up how does he get to his boat well so we would have to so once we see how this the whole thing

goes um then we'll probably have to um the lock will be all the more important in the off seon but we'll need to leave the G down in the winter well except he'll have to be pull you have to still pull it for storms and things like that storms and and um well the other thing and I think it's but he can do that himself he like he will open

it for us I think it's good to have the hover M to vote there but we need to be indemnified yes yeah I only because if there's going to be 24 Target well the thing is too that it can lock the gate the gate can currently lock and we have a key to override that so he's got that but I think what Ken's saying is similar to what we've done we

just do like a license agreement say I can use this Dock and they indemnify right we can get that yeah that was not that was not that was not going to be a problem should a little bit of the 28,000 so we've asked about that it's not it's not 28,000 what you say 12,000 yeah yeah they should be paying some of that well I um reached out to Captain

Fado and she was going to get back to me and how big is that gate with the locks on can you just jump over that now we have the H Master there if you just jump over I don't think you you can't jump over there that's the problem oh sure you can you can oh God yeah I think it's only 4et tall yeah well no it goes It goes up it's up and then it

comes down it tapers then goes over but you can you can get over you were saying you can get over the fence next to it right no you can get over that fence swi to it want to steal the the H Master's B and you can just get if that's down they can do that now when he's over at um bordon they can do that now no he's on a

private dock he's on a private dock but you can still jump the fence over there there you can got get on those private docks you got to go through well they brought it up if there's a will there's a way get there a will there a way we get the city to iny it yeah at a minimum my thing is if the back to the restroom yep um if we do put it at by Centennial then

there needs to be signage letting people know that there's a restroom yeah that will be that put sign yeah so that will be a yeah that will be a problem you're suggesting that we get botties for all of our events so that we'll have to order them and get separate ones and then we're having one over at well so I thought that the city brings down its portable portal body everybody hates that thing

well but I know everybody May hate it but it's it serves its purpose as opposed to going to current cost okay it's just that that you know and I shouldn't say people hate it problem is that it's handicap accessible they they have to keep the motor on for the entire event for it to be functional is that it's you have a noisy motor running throughout the whole event and we people

have asked that we just have a simple coord job I understand that but there are also issu like to incur additional cost when we have a pter on that we can get for free and maybe relocate in a spot where people not is upset about the M of being out I think it's something to lay out yeah but I mean when we have events we're going to have to get extra anyway

it depends on the size of we have right pretty much every time that's that's part of the overall event anyway right well we haven't for just those um kite nights and things right we've just had but the city brings one with two Johns on it right I just wouldn't put it in the circle I'd probably put it along the Wall Street P off a wallet put it over there y well but we can't during this period

l oh all the way over there you got little kids coming to these events mothers want to be able to just I don't think the events are the issue I think it's that the leaving the one out every day yeah I don't I just and then just one of last on kios a how deep do you got to go there because we do got a certain depth that we have to be concerned we have to Dig

Safe everything so no ex like the safe oh it won't go beyond it won't go beyond the cap no yeah no no no no how about the trenching for the wi that is that not an issue that's not an issue over that to be on the a so do we want to table the throne Depot for now or I mean we have a little we have a little time to think about it the season you

know yeah I I think that there should be some discussion with the city relative to Bicentennial Park and see what else we can do I I there's many reasons not to have that out there and I think we've done a pretty good job there's so many times I had to go to bom I rushed to my car and got to wherever I had to go to do it so it's

not a major issue without a event going on that I should want to see a por John over there yeah I think if there's one at the park then at least you know there's there's a destination we can move to yeah uh so um with that aside I um I need a motion to authorize the chair to execute all needed contracts for Associated work outlined by Karen with the total cumulative costs not to

exceed a total of 25,000 you can take the Portage on off but that's not a lot yeah but we're also going to try to see if the city will pay part of the 12,000 for the wire I'm waiting to hear back from on that yes before we spend it let's see if we get part whoa that will change um but you're saying not to exceed 25 we go below that

okay all right okay and they have like they have a waterways fund and stuff I mean the H Master they get the boat excise fees I mean they can REM it all goes to the general fund and none of it is usable by the Harbor Master he has a really limited budget limited pay too I heard it was like 2,000 a year or something no that's what the other he's

the police officer yeah so he gets paid it was what the old Harbor Master got paid did anybody give me a motion on motion uh a motion to proceed to give the chair up to $25,000 to do all the things Karen has just outlined second John ER yes lisc yes Joan madas yes Ron R yes and yes okay thank you next item Karen's going to talk about the closeout the environmental closeout yeah this is just

a quick update um we at the last meeting so that that was good they've got all their um survey information back they're um finished plotting all of that and making all the figures they need to make and he's just pulling the document all together and he's hoping to get that finalized uh in March so hopefully by the end of March we'll be closed out with that so we'll keep you posted nice um the parking lot

agreement so so you guys are all familiar with the parking lot right the one we've been renting so um I need a motion to execute a new parking license agreement U for 7124 to 63025 yeah so it's the same rate and it's one more additional year and we wouldn't need to pay the rent until a month before um start of the please we C that's 30,000 a year yes but wait a minute that just said

starting 71 yeah but we have events in June well we have current we have exting okay that's what I was going to ask whether not we were still under yeah we have the existing Le till June 30th okay he's not going to be building before then no okay no he no okay he's getting so what it did somebody me motion moved to reinstate the 71 lease on the lot pocking

lot yeso yes Joan madas yes Ron R yes and K yes thank you um and then I didn't know I put in everybody's packet um just kind of the the uh um initial uh events schedule of events for the summer so um it looks like we're going to do the um yoga Monday nights at the pier uh June and September um July the it'll be Monday nights or not they're working on scheduling their um

um their exercise or fun on the pier um and so that be more information on that and then um female in action are going to be doing the month of August so we'll have at least one night a week with um some type of yoga or other um activity out on the pier then um we are planning to do the formal grand opening for the docks on June 1st from 12: to 3: uh

we're going to try to do it as a ribbon cutting have um you know um all our um uh local um elected officials and they make a big big celebration and then um the city's looking at um paying for a band to go out and do a concert and we'll have a few other things out there too so if anybody wants um anyone to get a special invitation to the event just let me know

give me the contact information and we're probably going to get stuff like that out by end of March beginning of April um and then the rain date is June 8th in case it's bad day is that the day we open up the gate or is it we open up in May um we're probably going to open up um we were talking to the Harbor Master about that the other day I think we're

going to kind of play it by the weather um obviously next week going be the 50s but um boter don't usually he said that the boers typically do let the gang way down at some point and April so um that'll be like the soft kind of opening but the grand opening will be June 1st and um the other events the city's going to do another kite night on June 20th to sponsor but um Sam has put

together we're going to we were thinking about having um a dedicated vendor out on the property for certain points in the summer and it just kind of became complicated with um who was when because his ice cream already at the Carousel and so what we decided to do is do just three Food Truck fiday Friday nights and three trucks will pull up on the given dates of June 28th July 26th and August

23rd and we'll kind of gauge how that goes with the public and see what their need is another thing that people have asked for and I've tried to make some initial Outreach but have not had much luck in response so I just got to um continue um picking at it is whether we would put some type of a a vending machine for water out there like water and maybe soda or something um people

are saying that you know it gets hot there you know not everybody has a water it' be a good thing to have I don't know what all those ramifications are um the couple of vending companies that I had some initial contact with were like it's not going to work so um I don't know um I'll see if if there is any more real um request for that and if there would be

anyone who could Supply that type of thing I don't know but they don't want us to have straw the plastic straw at a restaurant but want to put a plastic vending machine right on the water I'm not sure if that's the brightest idea no but it's like but the thing was is that if we put somebody outse there for certain hours they could have be able to have access to water I you

know access to water before cut on I think if they wanted yeah yeah it'll be down that end yeah yes so um I'm not sure that would ever come to fruition anyway because I don't think anybody wants to put a vending machine out there so one more question Karen on the food trucks the names that are on there they're already established or yeah that's who um that's who Sam got lined

up for us for the food trucks oh so they've already so there was a was it a bid process or anybody can just get on there um it's um so they have a um like a group that they reach out to yeah um and they've expanded that group from last year and that's why we've done three different ones on the each different night so it's not the same

ones all the time pulling up so um I um I she said that these ones are they've been really responsive and everybody's liked them so we can see how it kind of goes on these when we do these is that when you say you got to have the qu Johns um for the food truck Fridays we we might not need to might not need to yeah but for the obviously the grand opening

will have them so are these people just going out there for free um right now yes yeah we're not sure that the demands will be there and they won't know so food trucks right pretty big at the are they still doing those food trucks at the gates or is this yeah but that's a whole different thing that's is this this so this is complimentary to that or in addition to is in place of oh no it's

an addition okay Karen do you want to speak to those how many of those are happening this year the ones comp our event uh task force knows and has looked at all the events that are planned by the city you know all the different things so this has been all design to compliment those food truck nights and you know the park Series in the Parks so it's that's the beauty of

our event committee is that you've got everybody there saying oh you you know these nights are taken These Are the nights you should do it perfect so only once a it's only once a month yeah three July it's three Fridays and and there's no um the narrow isn't planning anything well they have a concert yes um on August 20 it's

not yeah it's August 28th all on okay they're not all on it's August 28th right I think joh I think it's AUST think so yeah and last year um Theos really wanted to do their own adver they'll create their own marketing material we'll put signs out um on the pure property but they don't really want to be listed as one of our many events they want to be a premier major concert and they want to

Market it differently well I don't think it hurts by putting on the events no it will yeah yeah we don't have the um the Brewer is not involved in any of the food truck nights right no it was only certain events right it will be like for the grand opening okay the kickoff to the summer one yeah the dock grand opening June 1st and how do we advertise this how do we get out

to the public how how will they know besides so I talked to Joe good today from the Herold they'll run a um like a a a press release or an article about it I'm going to get it out to the office who does the city social media she'll put it out there and um I can probably put something on um at least our page on the website about it um and

just kind of go from there and with the key the information kios we'll put it all the notices in there about it too so hope hopefully we have we yes so we got one big event in August by The Narrows right yep you know the date the 20 what's I think it's the 28th check that date it's Thursday night I think St Andrews to have a concert once a month they have one they have a big

concert in har Street park but the is on a Sunday it's the 24th so are you concerned about the events no no I just I'm just trying to figure out you know I thought that we'd have you know I thought we might have a little bit more activity there but maybe that'll occur over time still early yeah yeah I think right now with the construction and everything's probably you know I think this is a good good

good package of events Karen do you want to talk about the um northern spit yeah there's not too much of an update we did definitely get the award from the seat Council for the three um $396,000 um to work on the planning um for improvements over there and um we've signed the the initial paperwork's all gone in with them for that and we I'm working on a scope of work um so we can

get some pricing from some Engineers um there's at least three of them that are interested in working with us on it so um hopefully I'll have some more concrete the gentleman from the coastal management oh coastal zone management who like was very helpful and offered to help us with whatever and he had some good information about what we might have to do or might not have to do in

terms of the rip wrap and he's pretty key tuned into all that so he's very helpful yeah and I talked to um Doug Cameron from the state fishery and Wildlife um their Grant programs are pretty much tied up for the next 5 years so we couldn't really apply for any grants from them for like the fishing um uh Pier that fishing spot that we want to develop out there but he would

definitely be available to help us with technical assistance so that's good um but that's still a ways down the road so um but I will um hopefully have some more info at the next meeting for you uh next item is Pleasant Street Flint Street Flint uh I know before I move to that um caotti moving um trailer that the city has brought um but it has been a concern about how loud

it was and but it's it's been great in lots of ways so I didn't want to be disparaging it because um the city's gone way out of their way to bring it and we've really appreciated it and we just thought a simple porta potty would be easier um because it takes up a lot of space and people have to bring it and they have to staff it and it's just more complicated than

having a porta potty but I didn't want to be criticizing that amazing resource that we've appreciated so moving on to pleas are soon getting all of our documents it's going to be a pile like this it's our urban renewal plan our road map an appendix for existing conditions that was a huge analysis done in the beginning of our project um a big uh big appendix on the survey we 500 surveys re survey responses so you

can go through all the answers There's a summary of what it all ended up um teaching us but there's also um a large piece of information there so um we're doing some final reviews of the two key documents uh I think we're going to be done this week um the housing uh and livable communities um we're also working through the whole meepa review process and um we talked with Paul furland

um the head of the Water and Sewer Department because the engineering firm working with who's working on all this meepa um process said that we had to by meepa regulations take one project and analyze it completely for is it green how many years is it um going to be functional and will it uh foresee climate change impacts on the neighborhood and so so we had picked or they had picked Stafford

Square which is where uh there's a $2 million grant funding and engineering firm to do an amazing design to deal with storm water that is an issue on streets above Stafford square and ends up with serious flooding in major rainfall so um so the our Engineers had done this whole analysis on a meepa form and on this whole process Engineers designing this whole um project so Paul said you really

should send it to our Engineers so we sent it to them and came up with a much better uh score for us I guess it was a negative score and now it's a positive score and they just added a lot of information about account and so now they asked me to send them all the planning documents and they're going to look through those and make sure that the and I of gave

them a list of where all of the uh flooding and um storm water um items came up through the documents and so they're going to look through those and see if they have any more comments but it was great that Paul connected us to that engineering firm and so as we're happening um my Dion has uh used arpa funds to get some storefronts uh some H really impressive storefront improvements designed he's

put them out to bid and they're going to go to construction very soon so the um Pleasant Street Corridor that really needed help to upgrade their storefront so that's in process um we've over the last week had a couple of developers um contact us about buildings they're interested in on Pleasant Street so I think the next you know piece we would love to see is some developers actually buying some of the

properties on Pleasant Street them but that seems to be the problem people who buy the buildings on Pleasant Street often don't have the capacity to really carry through so um movement on that front uh representative Schmid calls me or bumps into me periodically and talks with me about Alden Street Alden Street is where um where where some of the Mills have been redone for SE to for senior um

living and um there's a couple that are market rate and another market rate building that's um expected to bring 220 units to the heart of the all in a lot of our public meetings and Survey um responses people are very concerned about how difficult it is to um

Traverse and um the street needs to be redone and so Dan the city engineer has said the city was really prioritizing redel in Alden Street to put new Utilities in before you want to redo the street and so um that's something that representative Schmidt wants to look into and um we're keeping on the radar screen with the city and in so I was talking with him about are there just

lwh hanging fruit that we can deal with in the short term and so he was talking about a lot that he wants the city to clean up there may be we can talk with the building department and ask them to um site the owner of one of the properties that try to just get some things shored up and improved along Alden Street while we're looking at these much bigger more important

projects uh Route 79 so we um we have we being um Ken Dan Johnny Karen and I meet every two weeks with our consulting firm stantech and they today had seven of their Consultants on a zoom call with us and that's pretty typical they're bringing in different um you know we have a whole team of different experts so today we had um the uh Hotel um experts give us an analysis and

um this is a package of material that we got this week so we got a housing needs assessment and Market study an assessment of um Hotel um a competitive Hotel market analysis and we also got um a retail and office Market study and the good news from this was um that they really of units along this development and they think the rents that can be charged are super these these are all drafts they're

all draft so I don't think we should be really getting too far along on the findings of drafts they need to be further yeah when is this duai end of August so we have plenty of time it's a lot of preliminary but at least this preliminary drafts were encouraging on some

levels so the Consultants are going to go back and they got a lot of feedback from us they're going to go back and rework their uh numbers do more anal they feel they have their analysis um really fully developed then they'll start bringing that together with the rest of the team to look at what does that then um mean for the development and where buildings go and size and all of that

so Sarah do you want to talk about 231 Commerce Drive yes

so it turns out that um this is the um project where uh gold metal Bakery is buying this um parcel with a large facility on it that they plan to um redevelop for a large Bakery operation and we're selling um or expect to sell 191 Commerce next door that um land that we talked you about at our last meeting and um it the attorneys found as they were working on the closing for 231 that was

sold to Atlantic lighting by the Redevelopment Industrial Park was developed it was found that um they never asked the Redevelopment Authority for a certificate of completion that would need to say that they built the property in line with the land disposition agreement and consistent with the urban renewal plan to um look at that and he sent a to um sentence um uh email to us that we

passed as they were expected to so we would like you to approve uh the chair signing this certificate of completion which is critical for them to go ahead and buy the property yes so I need a motion to approve um the chair to execute a certificate of completion for the property of 231 Commerce yes Ron R yes thank yes thank you uh chair makes a finding the Open Session would have a detrimental effect

on the negotiating position of the public body the purpose of the executive session is to approve the executive session minutes from January 24th 24 and discuss strategy with respect potential real estate transactions for property located at assessor map 22 lot 9 on Deval Street and at 191 Commerce Drive um we're going to do a roll call to uh enter into executive session and not return to open session motion need a

motion to go into executive session not return Open Session okay motion to go in executive session return and not and not return second second John Erikson yes madus yes Ron R yes thank you