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HomeMy WebLinkAbout04-11-24 INC Agenda and Packet MaterialsA. Call meeting to order - 4:30 p.m. B. Disclosures C. Changes to the Agenda D. Approval of Minutes D.1 Approve Minutes from February 2024 (Evans) E. Public Comment F. FYI/Discussion F.1 Good Neighbor Day(Cleary) F.2 Gallatin Valley Sensitive Lands Protection Plan(Henderson) F.3 Commission Liaison Update(Morrison) F.4 City Liaison Update(Clark) THE INTER-NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL OF BOZEMAN, MONTANA INC AGENDA Thursday, April 11, 2024 This meeting will be held both in-person and also using an online video conferencing system. You can join this meeting: Via Video Conference: Click the Register link, enter the required information, and click submit. Click Join Now to enter the meeting. Via Phone: This is for listening only if you cannot watch the stream, channel 190, or attend in- person United States Toll +1 669 900 9128 Access code: 960 8158 0066 This is the time to comment on any matter falling within the scope of the Inter-Neighborhood Council. There will also be time in conjunction with each agenda item for public comment relating to that item but you may only speak once per topic. Please note, the Board cannot take action on any item which does not appear on the agenda. All persons addressing the Board shall speak in a civil and courteous manner and members of the audience shall be respectful of others. Please state your name and place of residence in an audible tone of voice for the record and limit your comments to three minutes. 1 F.5 Neighborhood Updates(INC Reps) G. Adjournment For more information please contact Takami Clark tclark@bozeman.net This board generally meets the 2nd Thursday of the month from 4:30 to 6:00 Committee meetings are open to all members of the public. If you have a disability that requires assistance, please contact our Acting ADA Coordinator, Max Ziegler, at 406.582.2439 (TDD 406.582.2301). In order for this Board to receive all relevant public comment in time for this meeting, please submit via the Public Comment Page or by emailing comments@bozeman.net no later than 12:00 PM on the day of the meeting. Public comment may be made in person at the meeting as well. 2 Memorandum REPORT TO:Inter-Neighborhood Council FROM:Cynthia Evans, INC Chair SUBJECT:Approve Minutes from February 2024 MEETING DATE:April 11, 2024 AGENDA ITEM TYPE:Minutes RECOMMENDATION:Approve Minutes STRATEGIC PLAN:7.3 Best Practices, Creativity & Foresight: Utilize best practices, innovative approaches, and constantly anticipate new directions and changes relevant to the governance of the City. Be also adaptable and flexible with an outward focus on the customer and an external understanding of the issues as others may see them. BACKGROUND:Minutes from 2/8/24 UNRESOLVED ISSUES:None ALTERNATIVES:None FISCAL EFFECTS:None Attachments: 2024.02.08 INC draft minutes.pdf Report compiled on: January 5, 2024 3 Inter-Neighborhood Council of Bozeman, Montana MINUTES Thursday, February 8, 2024, 4:30-6:00 pm Present: Cynthia Evans, Chair/ Bozeman Creek Neighborhood Association Tonya Stevens, Secretary/University Neighborhood Association via Zoom Emily Talago /Midtown Neighborhood Association Brad Bates/Bridger Creeklands Association of Neighbors Alison Sweeney/Jandt Neighborhood Association Brian Close/Hyalite Neighborhood Megan Stageman for Jill Stedman/ Marwyn Addition Anne Thorpe/Kirk Park Neighborhood Association Amy ? : Northeast Neighborhood Assocation Takami Clark, Interim Community and Engagement Manager A. Meeting called to order by Chair C. Evans at 4:31 B. Disclosures None C. Changes to the Agenda none D. Public Comment none E. Action Items: a. Minutes approval (package of Sept 2023 – January 2024) Brian moved to approve, seconded by Brad. Unanimous in favor. b. Approve the Jandt Neighborhood Association as a City-Recognized Neighborhood Association (Takami Clark and Alison Sweeney) (Attachments to Agenda: documentation from the neighborhood) Alison Sweeney spoke as representative of the newly-formed neighborhood association giving the history: Joseph and Julia Jandt were founding members of this neighborhood. He was a vet of WWI and WWII, was a carpenter and subcontractor for many of the houses. It includes area south of College to Main street, East from S. 11th to S. 15th Alison answered questions from the council. Motion to approve the Jandt Neighborhood Association made by Brian, seconded by Emily. All in favor. We invited Alison to join the council on the dais. F. FYI/Discussion F.1 Tax Increment Financing (TIF) Jesse DiTommaso, Economic Specialist for City of Bozeman – slide deck TIF: Finance tool as a funding mechanism for urban renewal. Allows the city to invest in infrastructure and other improvements and pay for them by capturing the increase of property taxes generated by the development over a given time. Taxes in general go to the City, County, and School Districts. The incremental taxes can go to TIF projects to facilitate blight removal and remediation, low-income housing, tourism-promotion (convention centers), parking garages, encouraging retail, industrial development, etc. There are rules about whether workforce housing can be funded. 4 8 February 2024 INC minutes 2 There are 5 TIF s in Bozeman now: • Northeast Neighborhood Urban Renewal District • Midtown Urban Renewal District • North Park Urban Renewal District • Downtown Tax Increment District • South Bozeman Technology District INC questions: Q. How long does a TIF-funded development last? A. 15 years unless it is bonded, then it can go 25 years or more. 40 years is the maximum. Q. What defines a district? A. The city government draws the boundaries at the start. Q. Does decline have to be demonstrated over a period of time? A. The state sets the rules about that. Q. Why the downtown TIF areas with conditions of blight? A. That was 1995. The parking garage has since enabled a lot of development. Now the district is so successful that it is giving back money to school district. Q. Midtown blight picture – has anything changed? A. Midtown TIF is very large. When N 19th went in, developers chose to build new instead of remodel the stuff in Midtown. A lot of vacant lots with barbed wire, that was an issue. Recent private and public investment. The Elm brings lots of folks to the district, and Midtown now has Aspen Crossing, the Rue Building. Former Bamboo Garden is being replaced, and across 5th from that, the empty lot is a planned development. School funding is complicated, and the city works with Whittier School, in the Midtown TIF, when there is a project. Q. If the Urban renewal districts no longer have citizen boards, how do you know what citizens of the areas want? A. It’s harder without the boards, but they gave us the long lists a while ago, so the city is still working on the list created, finishing that in the coming year. Q. Can a TIF be terminated before term? A. Yes Q. As development grows, more money can be earned for the TIF? A. Yes Q. What makes a project eligible or ineligible? A. Each district is different, applications are tailored for them. Criteria are based on the goals of that district. Q. Is there a time for public comment on a TIF project development? A. Yes. During the Annual Work Plan and Budget meetings. It would be an Action item. Q. You referred to the Poleyard as past tense superfund, why? A. It’s considered “okay” now, but you still couldn’t build residential there. Q. How do you get on a work session so city can think about a project? A. Not sure. You can always come talk to me, especially about urban renewal. Discussion, comments from INC reps after Q&A. 5 8 February 2024 INC minutes 3 F.2 City Liaison Update (Takami Clark) • UDC survey results are ready for public soon. There’s no engagement schedule yet. No one for Neighborhood Coordinator. • A Figgins Neighborhood Association is in the works. South 3rd area. • Next meeting will have a liaison from the City Commission. • Takami may be able to bring in a Sensitive Lands Plan person. Cynthia says their neighborhood in interested in that due to development in the area. INC: Is there a process for the City Commission considering the UDC changes? T: Not priority right now but will have a heads-up before engagement starts. INC: Where should we see the results, including raw data? T: Engage Bozeman website. I will put a pdf on the website and put out in the newsletter if you are registered for that. Raw Excel data here. F.3 Neighborhood Updates (INC Reps) Anne Thorpe (Kirk Park): In the process of planning a spring meeting. Had the very first one in the fall. Hopefully, they will have Jessica Ahlstrom come to talk about water conservation. Megan Stageman (Lindley/Marwyn Addition): Laurie is not chair, Jill Ellison is. Voting soon on how chair is situated. Not just a vice chair, but secretary and VC together. It’s hard to find people for the positions. Meg will be regular rep since Jill can’t make it to INC meetings as scheduled. Emily Talago (Midtown). Finally connecting with others in the neighborhood. Deciding on a date for a neighborhood meeting because they have 3 people who are interested in leadership. Alison Sweeney (Jandt): In their new bylaws: Since they have a majority of renters, nonresident landlords don’t have voting rights. A lot of neighborhood residents go to MSU, but not all. They have a chair, a secretary/treasurer, and At-Large. Cynthia Evans (Bozeman Creek): Nothing new to report for the neighborhood. Brad Bates (Bozeman Creeklands): Ours is similar to Kirk Park’s situation. We are debating adding another meeting. Also bringing in Jessica’s water conservation info for the neighborhood. Tonya Stevens (University) Spring meeting (March 27th) will elect new officers. Tonya will likely go off INC. Brian Close (New Hyalite View): Amy ? (NENA): A lot going on. We’ve been without Pres and VP for a while. No annual meeting for a while. Neighborhood potluck still happening. Subcommittees are making recommendations to UDC city inquiry. NEHMU zoning has been fought down twice. Hoping to keep that district intact. Working on the Idaho Pole development from EPA lately. Considering the move of all of the RR out of the neighborhood to the Cherry Creek wildlife rec area. You can see a lot of earthwork on the left. So Simpkins Hallin will store lumber there and all of Broadway. B2M zoning came in last year and didn’t seem like a big deal then, but now the proposal is 2-5 story buildings there, so they wish it was NEHMU. Wallace Works has gotten approval from CDB. Interesting look, not too tall. Tin Works – initially proposed a huge thing, but not going to do that now. Owner is same as Lark and Rialto. They will maintain it as an Art space. Eventually have residences. The whole space south of the Tin Works building field has been planted with winter wheat after 9/11. People have been asking the planter to do this all over the place. She is doing this project here. People will be asked to participate. That property will be super valuable. It’s nice to keep it as a wheat field. 6 8 February 2024 INC minutes 4 F.4 Recognition of New Members, Members Terming Off (INC Chair) Alison Sweeney is the representative for the newly-formed Jandt Neighborhood Association Linda, formerly Vice chair, and rep from Bogert Park, has termed off. There should be a replacement for her at March meeting. Cynthia from Bozeman Creek will end her time as Chair of INC next month. Tonya from the University Association will leave INC, replaced by another rep in April. NENA may be sending Amy back as its representative. NEXT MEETING: Discussion about next meeting schedule. We agreed on March 7th instead of the second Thursday since the chair will otherwise be gone and there is no Vice Chair yet. G. Adjournment at 6:05 pm Submitted 3/05/2024 by Tonya Stevens 7 Memorandum REPORT TO:Inter-Neighborhood Council FROM:Kim Cleary, Montana State University SUBJECT:Good Neighbor Day MEETING DATE:April 11, 2024 AGENDA ITEM TYPE:Citizen Advisory Board/Commission RECOMMENDATION:Listen to presentation, ask questions, offer feedback STRATEGIC PLAN:1.2 Community Engagement: Broaden and deepen engagement of the community in city government, innovating methods for inviting input from the community and stakeholders. BACKGROUND:Kim Cleary, Community Engagement Program Manager from MSU's Office of Student Engagement, is interested in collaborating with the City of Bozeman for Good Neighbor Day, held annually across the US on September 28. She is looking to collect INC's feedback on ideas we could pursue and particular areas of the city we might focus on. UNRESOLVED ISSUES:None ALTERNATIVES:None FISCAL EFFECTS:None Report compiled on: April 5, 2024 8 Memorandum REPORT TO:Inter-Neighborhood Council FROM:Jon Henderson, Strategic Services Director SUBJECT:Gallatin Valley Sensitive Lands Protection Plan MEETING DATE:April 11, 2024 AGENDA ITEM TYPE:Citizen Advisory Board/Commission RECOMMENDATION:Listen to presentation, ask questions STRATEGIC PLAN:6.6 Habitat: Work with partner organizations to identify at-risk, environmentally sensitive parcels contribute to water quality, wildlife corridors, and wildlife habitat. BACKGROUND:Jon Henderson, Strategic Services Director, will present on the Gallatin Valley Sensitive Lands Protection Plan, an effort that wrapped up at the end of 2023 and is now looking at implementation. The Gallatin Valley area continues to experience unprecedented growth and a regional approach to protecting sensitive lands will help provide adequate habitat into the future. This planning process was a collaborative effort between rural and urban residents, the City of Bozeman, and a Working Group of partners, including Gallatin County, other governing bodies, non- profits, and more. The Sensitive Lands Protection Plan highlights sensitive lands identified through a robust GIS model and provides a menu of recommendations that can be used by agencies, non-profits, and landowners to protect the most sensitive resources. UNRESOLVED ISSUES:None ALTERNATIVES:None FISCAL EFFECTS:None Report compiled on: April 5, 2024 9 Memorandum REPORT TO:Inter-Neighborhood Council FROM:Joey Morrison, Deputy Mayor SUBJECT:Commission Liaison Update MEETING DATE:April 11, 2024 AGENDA ITEM TYPE:Citizen Advisory Board/Commission RECOMMENDATION:No action required STRATEGIC PLAN:7.3 Best Practices, Creativity & Foresight: Utilize best practices, innovative approaches, and constantly anticipate new directions and changes relevant to the governance of the City. Be also adaptable and flexible with an outward focus on the customer and an external understanding of the issues as others may see them. BACKGROUND:Standing item on INC agenda - City Commission Liaison provides an update of pertinent information for Neighborhoods UNRESOLVED ISSUES:NA ALTERNATIVES:NA FISCAL EFFECTS:NA Report compiled on: March 1, 2024 10 Memorandum REPORT TO:Inter-Neighborhood Council FROM:Takami Clark, Communications & Engagement Manager SUBJECT:City Liaison Update MEETING DATE:April 11, 2024 AGENDA ITEM TYPE:Citizen Advisory Board/Commission RECOMMENDATION:No action required STRATEGIC PLAN:7.3 Best Practices, Creativity & Foresight: Utilize best practices, innovative approaches, and constantly anticipate new directions and changes relevant to the governance of the City. Be also adaptable and flexible with an outward focus on the customer and an external understanding of the issues as others may see them. BACKGROUND:Standing item on INC agenda - City Liaison provides an update on pertinent information for INC Reps and Neighborhoods. UNRESOLVED ISSUES:NA ALTERNATIVES:NA FISCAL EFFECTS:NA Report compiled on: March 1, 2024 11 Memorandum REPORT TO:Inter-Neighborhood Council FROM:InterNeighborhood Council Representatives SUBJECT:Neighborhood Updates MEETING DATE:April 11, 2024 AGENDA ITEM TYPE:Citizen Advisory Board/Commission RECOMMENDATION:Listen to updates, ask questions! STRATEGIC PLAN:1.1 Outreach: Continue to strengthen and innovate in how we deliver information to the community and our partners. BACKGROUND:Standing agenda item - pertinent updates from INC Representatives will be shared UNRESOLVED ISSUES:NA ALTERNATIVES:NA FISCAL EFFECTS:NA Report compiled on: March 1, 2024 12