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Downtown Business Improvement District
Board Meeting Minutes
May 21, 2014
Attending: Eric Bowman, Dylan Clarkson, Dan Himsworth, Eric Sutherland, Buck Taylor Cyndy Andrus, Chris Naumann
Absent: Mike Basile, Ileana Indreland
Public Comments None
Disclosures
None
Minutes
ACTION: Buck Taylor moved to approve the March minutes as presented.
Eric Sutherland seconded the motion.
All voted in favor.
Special Presentation
The Future of
Bogert Pool w/ Tom McNabb (MSU Community Design Center), Brett Potter (Focus Architects), and Salal Huber-McGee (Friends of Parks).
Presented findings and concepts developed by MSU CDC
project for redeveloping the pool at Bogert Park.
Advocated building a new pool at current site in Bogert Park to preserve the neighborhood amenity.
Proposed that a City comprehensive
aquatics plan and corresponding bond measure should include new pool at Bogert Park.
Chris said that prior to City Commission taking action to initiate the aquatics plan that this topic
would be brought back to the board for further consideration.
Finance Report
Chris presented the Finance report reviewing the revenues and expenditures year-to-date as of May 20, 2014.
He noted the only expenditures from the previous report were the monthly maintenance expenses.
Chris concluded by noting the BID has $97,127 in the savings and checking accounts.
The
board did not have any further questions about the Finance Report.
Executive Director’s Report
Maintenance Program Update
Below are the maintenance statistics comparing year-to-date
figures from this year (FY14) to the stats from the same period last year (FY13). We are operating at our typical fall-winter maintenance levels. Currently we have one part-time employee
emptying trash 3-4 days a week. We also have one other employee “on-call” to help with larger projects.
FY2013
FY2014
Difference
Trash Emptied
2211 total 237 av/mnth
2801 total 280 av/mnth
+590
Graffiti Removed
52 total 7 av/mnth
194 total 19 av/mnth
+142
Recycling
Removed
93 total 23 av/mnth
Summer Maintenance Update
We have filled two of the three summer maintenance employee positions. Liz (our current staff person) will be watering flowers Monday through Friday. Thomas
will be the “everything but flowers” staff person handling trash, graffiti, banners and general maintenance Thursday through Monday.
We are still looking to fill the last position which
is weekend flower watering. We sent an e-mail out to a couple of our downtown list serves and will also post on Craigslist this week.
Flower Basket Update
Background: Jessica MacDonald
of Wagner Nursery and I have been planning 2014 flower basket program. We will be installing a total of 238 flower baskets comprised of 158 18” baskets and 80 14” baskets. I also ordered
4 extra planted 18” baskets and 4 extra planted 14” baskets which Wagner will keep at their greenhouse. Therefore we will be able to replace a few baskets should they start to struggle
once the heat of summer arrives. Back in March Jessica of Wagner provided a quote for this year’s baskets totaling $20,175. But I think I found an error with her basket count. She and
I will be meeting to rectify the discrepancy.
NEW: With the correction to the estimate the total price came down just a bit to $19,751.58.
Downtown Parking Update
The graphs on the
back show the trends in both garage use and revenue for April. Entries and revenue were up 15% and down 5% over April 2013. Therefore year-to-date entries and revenue for 2014 are up
20% and 16% respectively over 2013.
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Discussion and Decision Items
FY2015 Work Plan and Budget
Chris presented the draft budget for Fiscal Year 2015. He said it was slightly different than the first draft presented
in March. The DBP management fee did go up as it did for the TIF and BID.
He outlined a few expense increases. First will be for “Christmas Light Repair” because the spider stars need
to be refabricated. The only other expense increase of note will be for flowers as the estimate from Wagner is about $2,500 higher than last year mostly due to purchasing additional
baskets.
Chris asked the board if they would be willing to begin paying for the storage of the holiday spiders. He said for the past seven years the Partnership has been paying Mergenthaler
$1395 a year for the decoration’s storage. The board agreed that this was a BID program expense and supported taking on that payment.
ACTION: Eric Sutherland moved to adopt the FY2015
Work Plan and Budget as presented and amended.
Dan Himsworth seconded the motion.
All voted in favor.
With no further new or old business, the meeting was adjourned.
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