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Home My WebLink About01-17-18 BID MinutesDowntown Business Improvement District Board Meeting Minutes January 17, 2018 Attending: Jolee Berry, Eric Bowman, Erik Nelson Susan Neubauer, Eric Sutherland, Chris Naumann Absent: Mike Basile, Ileana Indreland Public Comments: None Minutes ACTION: Eric Bowman moved to approve the minutes from October and November as presented. Eric Sutherland seconded the motion. All voted in favor. Finance Report Chris presented the financials as of January 15, 2018. He noted that revenues were tracking as expected with just over $149,000 received. He noted that all expenses are on budget and tracking as would be expected. Chris reported between the checking account and CDs, total cash equaled $168,694. The board had no questions about the finance report. Executive Directors Report Maintenance Program Update We are operating with our winter staffing levels which includes one part-time general maintenance employee (Mike Grant) and one part-time garage maintenance employee. The garage maintenance employee position has been filled. Below are the maintenance statistics comparing year-to-date figures from this FY18 year-to-date (FY18) to the statistics from the comparable year-to-date period last year (FY17). NOTES: In September the URD purchased an additional 10 recycling bins bring the total to 22. This increase in inventory explains the corresponding increase in recycling receptacles emptied. We saw a marked decrease in the amount of graffiti this fall versus last fall. October through December 2016 we removed over 90 tags while the same three months of 2017 only had 10. FY2017 FY2018 Total Ave/mnth Total Ave/mnth Difference Trash Emptied 1561 260 1339 223 -222 Recycling Emptied 186 31 220 37 +34 Graffiti Removed 227 38 73 12 -154 Building Project Updates • 23 East Main (former Bozeman Angler) remodeling 1st and 2nd floor to be complete in May 2018 • 223 East Main (former IOOF Building) constructing a 2-story building with first floor retail and residential on second floor to be completed October 2018 • Owenhouse redeveloping 2nd floor as 8000+ square feet of office space • Etha Hotel (Armory building) Construction scheduled to resume in January 2018. • Rialto Theater opened with first concert January 13, 2018. • Black & Olive Apartments scheduled to begin construction Spring 2018. • Lark Addition (corner of Grand and Main) 4 story building with 28 new Lark hotel rooms. Construction began in December 2016 to be completed Spring 2018. • “OSM” Building 5 story mixed use building proposed on southwest corner of Babcock and Wallace—schedule unknown • BG Mill Building 5 story mixed use building proposed on southwest corner of Mendenhall and Broadway—schedule unknown New Businesses Update • Montana Provisions—39 North Rouse—old Service Electric opening late winter • Fire—243 East Main—former Artcraft Printers—being remodeled as wood-fired pizza restaurant • Potential New Restaurant—19 South Willson—former Over the Tapas—no details at this time. • Zinovo—36 East Main—above Owenhouse once redeveloped—currently operating out of CoWork Bozeman • CoWork Bozeman—27 East Main—former Prugh & Lenon space—recently purchased and being operated as a turnkey office share business Planning Updates In this section, I will provide update about several ongoing City planning processes. UDC Revisions http://bozeman.net/Projects/UDCCodeupdate/Home Consultants: Makers (Seattle), Leland Group (Portland), Studio Cascade (Spokane) Update: adopted by the City Commission on January 4, 2018 but will not take effect until April 2018. City Vision & Strategic Plan Consultants: HDR Timeline: March 2016-2018 Update: draft plan adopted by CC on May 15, 2017. City Commission will consider revised draft on January 29, 2018. 2017 Community Plan (City Growth Policy) Update Consultants: City release RFP for consultants January 2017 Timeline: October 2017 through late 2018 Downtown Strategic Parking Management Plan Strategies 1 through 5 have been completed. Strategies 6 (Cash-in-Lieu), 7 (UDC Parking Requirements), and 8 (SID 565) are scheduled to be addressed in 2018 and I am working with City staff to develop a more specific timeline. Strategy 10, focusing on data collection and analysis, was in part completed with the release of the 2017 Downtown Parking Study as conducted by WTI. https://www.bozeman.net/Home/ShowDocument?id=5335 Strategies 12, 13, and 14, which focus on signage, branding and wayfinding associated with parking will be completed in 2018. Significant progress is being made on Strategy 15 to upgrade the parking technology systems at the garage and used for on-street management. The new T2 parking management system will be implemented in May 2018. Discussion and Decision Item Holiday Lights Update and Funding Requests Chris presented a proposal to replace the Soroptomist Park tree lighting with new LED and retrofit the intersection Spiders with all LED bulbs (see below). The total costs would not exceed $5000. Funding would be the balance from the FY2018 Christmas Lights budget and no more than $2500 in BID savings. Chris asked for the board’s direction about which vendor to use. The board agreed to use one of the Bozeman suppliers, which ever was the least expensive. ACTION: Eric Sutherland moved to approve the holiday lighting LED upgrades as proposed with an expenditure of savings not to exceed $2500. Jolee Berry seconded the motion. All voted in favor. DOWNTOWN BOZEMAN HOLIDAY LIGHTS FY2018 Budget Actual Christmas Lights $ 2,750 $ 1,672 Christmas Lights Repairs $ 2,250 $ 833 Totals $ 5,000 $ 2,505 $ 2,495 remaining balance Total Cost LED Upgrades $ 5,000 not to exceed Soroptomist Tree Light Replacement Action Lighting Wiring (1000 feet) $ 203 C9 LED Bulbs (1000) $ 960 Total $ 1,163 Intersection Spider LED Conversion DiJulio Displays C9 10w LED Bulbs $ 3,750 750 each of 4 colors Action Lighting C9 10w LED Bulbs $ 2,940 750 each of 4 colors Owenhouse Hardware C9 10w LED Bulbs $ 3,300 750 each of 4 colors Energy consumption (and power bill) will decrease by 80% Garage Elevator Wrap Project Chris updated the board that he had secured some of the funding necessary to wrap the two elevators at the garage from the DBA and Partnership. He presented a proposal asking that the BID contribute either $2000 (the upgrade cost for graffiti proof vinyl) or $1733 (33% of the total project costs). See below. The board agreed this would be an aesthetic improvement for the elevators and agreed to fund 33% of the costs. ACTION: Eric Bowman moved to approve $1733 of funding for the garage elevator wrap project. Susan Neubauer seconded the motion. All voted in favor. DOWNTOWN GARAGE ELEVATOR WRAP PROJECT Alphagraphics $ 3,200 no anti-graffiti laminate Clean Slate Group $ 5,200 with anti-graffiti laminate difference for anti-graffiti $ 2,000 Funding Partners DBA $ 1,733 Partnership $ 1,733 BID $ 1,733 $ 5,200 **Meeting was adjourned at 1:05pm**