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HomeMy WebLinkAbout10-02-14 North Seventh Urban Page 1 of 9 APPROVED minutes from October 2, 2014 board meeting Voted on and approved during December 4, 2014 board meeting held at the Stiff Building, upper conference room TO DO List: Everyone attend November 6 board meeting & continue getting easements and recruiting board members Attendance: Andrew Cetraro, Carl Solvie, Susan Fraser, Dustin Johnson, Carson Taylor, David Fine, Scott Hedglin, Kevin Cook, Allyson Brekke Call to Order – Carl called to order at 4:34pm. Public Comment – none. Meeting Minutes Kevin motioned to accept August 21 minutes as presented; Scott seconded. All in favor. N7Rehab applications and presentations Universal Athletics’ Larry Aasheim joined the table to present the renovation work proposed for the old Van’s site. He handed out the basic plans for the space (Attachment A). Kurt Ratz with CTA joined and showed exhibits of the proposed work. Discussion. Allyson offered to go over grant process with Kurt. Board expressed its excitement of having this business relocate to N. 7th. Larry and Kurt hope to start actual work in January so will be back before NSURB very soon. Phase II lighting project status, easements etc Dustin started by alerting the board that this would be his last meeting as he is leaving the City engineering office to take a job with KLJ. Morrison-Maierle’s Kevin Jacobsen joined the table for discussion and reported that lighting guy Chad had left MM to focus on his own beer company, Montucky Cold Snacks. Kevin handed out the monthly report (Attachment B). Current work included an ADA compliance site check at Craig Rowland’s corner of 7th @ Durston. Discussion on status of easements still needed. David Fine joined discussion to share about the visit made to Intensive Car by himself, Brit Fontenot and Daryl Schliem. Kevin handed out MM’s analysis on retrofitting existing lamps with LED (Attachment C). He recommends the 135w lamps at purchase cost of $37,196, noting ten years of usage of these new energy-saving bulbs will show a total return on purchase. MSU College of Business Student Consultants, 7th Marketing and Outreach Plan Allyson introduced Kyndall and Robert to present their class goals to the board. Discussion. Allyson reported they also met as a group with Ellie Staley and she brought up as example/interesting point about the Oak @ 7th project being forced upon the business owners when it would be better to develop property owner ownership of such works projects. Page 2 of 9 Kyndall and Robert went onto describe their plans: first, a survey as they have found business owners are happy to help students; secondly, offering October 17 one-on-one meetings for businesses with them; thirdly, making phone calls to request completion of the survey with a personal pickup of the document on October 27; fourth, to deliver the survey information at the November 6 NSURB meeting; and lastly, that their third group member, Inigo, was in contact with the graphics professors in hopes of getting some student input into redesigning the logo. Kyndall and Robert noted this could be an ongoing process, continued within Gary Bishop’s marketing class from semester to semester over the course of years. Officer elections Kevin made the motion to elect Scott as chair; Carl seconded the motion. All in favor. Scott made the motion to elect Kevin as vice chair; Carl seconded the motion. All in favor. Carl made the motion to elect Susan as recorder; Andrew seconded the motion. All in favor. Recruiting board members to fill vacant positions Everyone will continue. Adjournment Carl adjourned the meeting at 5:59pm. Page 3 of 9 Attachment A Page 4 of 9 Attachment B Page 5 of 9 Attachment C Page 6 of 9 Page 7 of 9 Page 8 of 9 Page 9 of 9