Dayton Business Journal

July 10, 2006

Preble County has begun efforts to develop a 1,500-acre industrial and retail park at the intersection of I-70 and state Route 127.

The county and Columbus-based Pizzuti Solutions, master developer of the project, are working to secure the farm-covered land and funds to begin the groundwork to transform a sleepy interstate exit into a bustling corridor.

Citing its strategic location between Columbus, Indianapolis and Cincinnati, the county envisions players in biotechnology, agriculture products and plastics to locate there. It also has contacted retail giants Cabela's and IKEA, and it's in talks with Miami University and other post-secondary schools to erect research and development facilities that could interact with other like businesses the county hopes to lure.

The project, called Goose Creek Crossing, will take an estimated 15 years to complete. It will come in four phases, with each corner of the intersection forming a separate phase.

The county will have to invest a total of $25 million to $30 million in infrastructure to develop the land.

Preble County leaders want to develop the Monroe Township crossroads, which is one of the few bare intersections along I-70, said Jon Hartman, executive director of the Ohio Gateway Development Council, the county's economic development arm. Industrial and other businesses will help bring in tax revenue and jobs to the county, which has seen unemployment rise in recent years.

Without infrastructure, the area faces unique challenges to attracting businesses, said Jim Russell, senior vice president for Pizzuti Solutions. But with easy interstate access and low property costs, it also has some feathers to fluff before potential investors.

One of the county's main focuses now is to secure funds to develop infrastructure. The initial cost of infrastructure for that area will be between $10 million and $12 million, Russell said. Those costs include bringing in sewer and water lines, as well as hooking up electricity and telecommunications systems to support all types of businesses.

To shoulder those financial burdens, the county will apply for grants. It is submitting an application for the state's Job Ready Sites Program grant by July 19, Hartman said.

The county won't make its investment all at once, but rather infrastructure will be constructed as businesses show interest.

As talks with interested parties progress, project leaders predict development in the southwest quadrant of the intersection will spring up first. Predictions for initial development are based on current talks, and leaders are unsure of what will crop up first.

But they have mapped out how they're hoping to fill the space:

• Southwest quadrant: The area is designated for research and development companies, education facilities that can work with them, retail businesses like stores and restaurants as well as hotels and a convention center.
• Northwest quadrant: Project leaders hope to attract industrial companies to the area. Russell said he's in talks with a light industrial company that would build a 1 million-square-foot facility and employ 450.
• Northeast quadrant: They're planning the area for supportive industrial companies that could bolster companies across the highway, as well as transportation-related companies that would mesh well with the truck stop located there today.
• Southeast quadrant: The space is planned to house destination retail stores, and developers have contacted Cabela's, an outdoor sporting goods retailer, and IKEA, a Swedish furniture chain. Stores like that would bring in the traffic needed to support a Jeffersonville Outlet-style mall project leaders hope to grow in that quadrant, Hartman said.

But before county leaders seek investors, they're addressing issues that would prevent companies from locating there. Without sewer, water and telecommunication services, the area is less attractive to companies that want to break ground immediately. Plus, since the area is located between Columbus and Indianapolis, companies may find better incentives, larger work forces, infrastructure and support closer to the metropolitan areas, Russell said.

On the other hand, the land — which project leaders expect to easily obtain for development — is less expensive than that located near cities. And with its access to I-70 and nearness to major cities — Indianapolis and Columbus are 90 miles away in each direction, and Cincinnati is 60 miles south — the location could prove to be an attraction to companies that want a quick jaunt to more-heavily populated areas.

Once industrial companies move in, the county will start to benefit from tax revenue and job opportunities, Hartman said. And Hartman likes the idea of a mixed-use development.

"It broadens our opportunities," he said. "(It) allows us to tap into many more revenue streams that support other entities."

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Dayton Business Journal

January 22, 2007

Retail park denied $5 state grant:

A 1,500-acre industrial and retail park at the intersection of Interstate 70 and State Route 127 has hit a speed bump in its development.

The Preble County project, dubbed Goose Creek Crossing, was denied a $5 million Job Ready Sites grant from the state last month, and officials now are rethinking their approach to the site's development. State officials said competition was fierce for the first round of Job Ready Sites funding, in which just 20 of the 63 statewide applicants received portions of the $60 million available.

The project now will take longer since officials will have to take smaller steps in developing the first phase.

The funds for Goose Creek, which Preble County officials would have matched with at least $1.25 million in local and private dollars, would have gone toward an $8 million infrastructure project for water and sewage so developers could begin the first phase.

The first phase, situated on 270 acres, would house research and development companies, education facilities, retail businesses such as stores and restaurants as well as hotels and a convention center.

The entire project encompasses all four corners of the intersection and includes industrial companies and support businesses, transportation-related companies and destination retail stores like Cabela's and IKEA to anchor an outdoor mall development.

Project leaders now are trimming the initial plans to develop the first phase in one swoop, said Jon Hartman, executive director of the Ohio Gateway Development Council, the economic development arm of Preble County. Instead, they'll look to develop smaller portions at first.

"In a sense, we're going to be going it alone," Hartman said.

Had the project been awarded Job Ready Sites funding, infrastructure development could have begun this year and facilities groundbreakings in the next three years.

The lack of funding, however, doesn't necessarily set back that timetable, said Shannon Hamons, director of special projects for Columbus-based Pizzuti Solutions, project developer. Officials may look for companies or developers willing to help front some funds for infrastructure development, he said.

Project officials are looking to meet with Ohio Department of Development leaders to talk about how to better approach the Job Ready Sites program in the future.

The program is one of the state's few that funds projects that don't necessarily have companies committed to opening shop within a development. Its goal is to create a slate of available space for large-scale users to move in quickly. Among other criteria, preferred projects are those that are aimed at shifting Ohio's economy to booming industries, like technology, or that fulfill market needs, like "mega" manufacturing sites.

Program administrators funded projects that were close to completion so that program funding would produce immediate results, said Jeffry Harris, Job Ready Sites administrator for the Ohio Department of Development.

Project winners were those that needed help acquiring the last few parcels of land or bringing railway access to the site, for example.

Job Ready Sites will allocate $30 million in fiscal year 2008 and $15 million each year from 2009 to 2012.

The Nextedge Technology Park in Springfield won $3.1 million in Job Ready Sites money in the first round of funding. The funds will go toward building the first 55,000-square-foot building in the tech park.

Tom Franzen, Springfield's economic development administrator, said the project was favored by the state because it cleared many hurdles. Site infrastructure was almost complete when the city applied for the funds, and the project itself will help bring in technology jobs, balancing Springfield's shrinking manufacturing base.

While the Preble County project is far from seeing its first shovel, officials are confident investment will come soon.

"We are, by no means, throwing in the towel," Hartman said.

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Dayton Business Journal

June 30, 2008

Both Preble and Darke counties are on the verge of restructuring their economic development efforts by focusing on increased regional ties, streamlined communication and increased incentives, officials said this week.

Speaking at the Dayton Business Journal's Regional Development Forum — West at the Eaton YMCA, Preble County Commissioner David Wesler said the county is retooling efforts to attract more companies to the Interstate 70 corridor.

"Our time is coming," he said. "We started on economic development long after other communities were working on it."

About 100 professionals from the area attended the event, which also included on the panel Darke County Commissioner Terry Haworth, Darke County Economic Development Director John Greendyke and Rob Connelly, president of Eaton-based Henny Penny Corp.

Panelists discussed a range of issues affecting the Indiana-bordering counties including corn's increased demand on agriculture, manufacturing and efforts to ramp up public/private economic development initiatives.

Seeing the light in Darke County

Haworth said Darke County is undergoing a shift to enter into more public and private partnerships to drive business growth.

He said the county decided to push in that direction after examining best practice models from across the country and will soon embark on a campaign to raise incentive funds from the private sector.

"We think it will ratchet up our outreach a few notches," he said.

Greendyke said the county is most excited about its ethanol plant, which is spurring economic development. It has led to some new jobs being created at other businesses in the area, but Greendyke said it was too early to tell exactly how many jobs would be created.

Haworth said a trucking company near the facility had expanded in preparation for more work when the plant opened.

But while the demand for the corn-based bio-fuel is sending agriculture prices through roof — to the benefit of grain farmers — cattle handlers are not so lucky.

Haworth said a large portion of county residents raise livestock and the price of feeding them has increased because corn is being diverted to make bio-fuel.

"It is a two-edged sword in our county," he said.

While two of the largest issues affecting the Greater Dayton area seem to be downturns in the manufacturing and housing markets, only one is really affecting Darke County, Greendyke said.

Like most of the state, housing lulls are impacting local businesses in Darke County, such as a local truss maker, he said. However, Dayton region manufacturing losses, such as the pending closure of the General Motors Corp. Moraine plant, are having little impact, he said.

Regardless, Greendyke and Haworth said the county must make continued efforts to train its future workforce and retain young people.

"The farm people have a good work ethic, but they are getting older and the real challenge will be replacing those people with quality people," Haworth said.

Likewise, Greendyke pointed out that it is near-impossible to leave high school and enter into a quality job, as it was in the past.

"The training is higher tech than it used to be," he said, adding later that workforce development and training is the most pressing issue facing the county.

Haworth also said he would like to see more entrepreneurial development in Darke County, and that could be a way to help boost the technology industry there.

Preble County forming new strategies

County Commissioner Wesler said in Preble County, officials are working to form a coherent economic development strategy, long after their neighboring counties have.

Across the state border in Indiana, "Richmond has everything" along Interstate 70, which runs right through Preble County, Wesler said.

"We have nothing except a truck stop," Wesler said. "I-70 is a corridor where manufacturing could happen, we want to be postured to bring any business to Preble."

He said the county will be making a substantial effort to attract new business to the state Route 127 and I-70 intersection.

He said the county lacks funding to install the needed infrastructure at the site and will be making a concerted effort to attract aid through the state's "shovel ready" job site grants for new business. The county applied for such funding in 2007, but failed to garnish any state aid, despite high criteria ranking, Wesler said.

"We want a road map to be ranked first in the state when the program comes around again (next year)," he said.

Success with developing the intersections could also lead to a Miami University branch campus, he said.

He said Preble County has a lot of manufacturing including a large contingent of residents who will be out of work when GM Moraine closes its doors by 2010. Unlike Darke County, Preble County officials said the GM plant closing would hurt.

To compensate, Wesler said that Preble, like all affected communities, will eagerly assist displaced workers in finding retraining opportunities.

Working together

All the panelists said that regional cooperation is imperative to their respective economic success and each are members of regional groups such as the Dayton Development Coalition and the Miami Valley Regional Planning Council.

"We have to work together as a region to survive," Wesler said.

Connelly, from Henny Penny, said he would like to see more emphasis placed on companies like his that are growing, compared to officials concentrating on wooing new business.

"I think there is somewhat of a bias," he said. "If I was bringing in a new business, I think there would be more support for that… there needs to be more balance with the incentives offered to existing companies."

Haworth also said communities can work together to help their citizens better understand how strong education and health care systems will be a regional boon.

"We need to get people to understand the promise of community development," he said. "Boy, is that a challenge in rural areas."

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January 25, 2010  

This date has the Leachate contract passing with a 2 – 1 vote in the morning followed by Jim Leftwhich. Pilot mentioned as 3rd busiest in state. Dave mentions Miami MOU.

The next meeting 3:30 P.M. – BREWSTER RHOADS, GOVERNOR’S REGIONAL DIRECTOR & KEVIN CARVER, REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEV. DIRECTOR (GOOSE CREEK CROSSING PROJECT)

Of note JEDD discussion and Trail 1.75% income tax.

Question on availability of "Rail"

Use of CBDG grants.

2 hr.  21.5 minute mark   Meeting starts, Bob Stonecash turns it over to Chris Day.

2 hr.  21.5 minute mark   Chris Day stressing input of people in room. Just the opposite of the approach taken with Gasper Township Trustees over the leachate issue.

2 hr.  23.5 minute mark   Chris Day turns meeting over to Jay & David from Kleingers.

Research office park, another mention of Miami University interest. Question from Rhoads??  on how interested Miami is-was – continues to be.  Kleingers had just tried contacting them last week.

2 hr.  26.5 minute mark   Rhoads – question on market use for area.

Kleingers response is that currently big bulk industrial distribution for most of site. Commercial & retail at Orphans Rd. interchange. Market will dictate what all this becomes. Mentions PUD (Planned Unit Development) and some developers being scared off.

2 hr.  29 minute mark       TIF – shovel ready.    Premier commerce center.  County owned industrial park.

2 hr.  31 minute mark    Rhoads – How much could you save a developer with the county controlling the land deal, compared to the privately owned?

Kleingers – "Ahh. We don't have our land bases figured out yet, for this” Mentions land elsewhere (I-75) being owned by developer as going at $80,000 – $100,000 an acre. Mentions $10,000 – $20,000 an acre.

Rhoads or Carver – asks if that includes infrastructure costs.

2 hr.  32 minute mark   Caterpillar deal may be instructive or an indication of the state of the economy. Clayton ended up giving the land to Caterpillar for free. It was worth that much to them because Clayton is a city and has an income tax. After running numbers on the income stream from the tax they made the judgment as a government that was worth more to them in the long term. There was a $1.2 million cost for the first phase of the infrastructure cost and Caterpillar is asking for another $900,000 for an adjacent road way. "When you're running the numbers I think you have to be considerate of the long term gain into the community is. How you offset those upfront costs. The reason I ask you about land use is we are starting to see a lot of large logistics and distribution plays along I-70 in particular, much more so than I-75."  Cost of land mentioned.

2 hr.  33minute mark   Mentions prospects inquiries, one put on the back burner, another feeler out now. Challenges to county are figuring short term pain in cost vs. long term gain while ramping this thing up.

2 hr.  34.5 minute mark   One of the first questions almost every site selector asks regards work force development and skill sets of those workers. How far people are willing to commute. If they are only $15 an hour jobs then people won't want to travel 60 miles as gas prices are going to go back up.

2 hr.  37 minute mark   Sinclair will only get you so far.

Kleingers mentions talking to engineers about getting "Fiber" to the site for the possibility of a call center. Trailer parking because there is much land available.

2 hr.  39 minute mark   Rhoads or Carver asks how far away rail is. They are told 4 or 5 miles.That issue will come up. It won't be a primary issue with every business you will run into, especially in the logistics and distribution field. There will be companies that have to have rail, some
might want to have rail and others it will all be over the road stuff. In the universe of logistics and distribution companies, you are going to shave off a piece because you do not have rail.

There is rail at Camden, there is no rail at Exit 10.  The heavy truck traffic was mentioned earlier in the day by the County Engineer as a problem issue. A prospective distribution center dependent solely on trucks will add to that congestion and further impede any other type of development in the area. Furthermore, if you were a company or university looking to build a "Research Park", would you want your highly trained employees negotiating that type a traffic every work day?

Kleingers – "Is there some inherent advantage to having I-70 frontage vs. the rail access?"

Rhoads or Carver It’s all about costs for the company. They run the numbers just like you guys are going to in term of the volume of stuff they ship.  If they have high volumes of things that are logistically able to be put on a train it is a lot cheaper to ship it somewhere than on 86 some odd tractor trailers. It's a function of cost and they need rail.

2 hr.  41 minute mark    Rhoads or Carver  Big industrial users that have to have rail, so they are going to be closer to urban areas where rail access is more readily available. It's just something to keep in the back of your mind, especially for the county as you look out forward in terms of available sites that could potentially be plays that rail is important to those people.

 HEY WHAT ABOUT CAMDEN??? Maybe a boat ride at Lakengren will swing a deal.

2 hr.  42 minute mark   Kleingers – mentions three or four funding streams from county. Conveyance fee, CDBG grants etc.. It looks like we have some local match to work with. Issue 2 for water and sewer.

2 hr.  43 minute mark   Putting in for a JRS in April.

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File 10

2 hr.  45 minute mark   Kleingers – pretty good idea of infrastructure costs by March 1.

2 hr.  46 minute mark   Rhoads or Carver – questions on water treatment and out flow

2 hr.  48 minute mark   Why are we looking at 200 acres instead of 300 acres?

2 hr.  49 minute mark   Chris Day on having to start somewhere.

2 hr.  50 minute mark   Kleingers on JRS application

2 hr.  51 minute mark   Rhoads or Carver – JRS application process, lot of competition. Proposal has to be top notch. Process not political. Contact Nate Harbor sp?? A day would have to be spent in Columbus going over last round of applications to see how they were scored.

2 hr.  57 minute mark   Rhoads or Carver asks for help so he can market it. Need for a tight sales pitch. Why you got to come here.  

3 hr.   minute mark  rebranding of name to reflect I-70, possible.  

3 hr.  2 minute mark   Question on how much traffic on I-70. No one knew.

3 hr.  3 minute mark   DHL took advantage of low pay scale but offered a health care plan. They had a lot of part time people.

3 hr.  4 minute mark   Work ethic of farming community, non union.

 3 hr.  5 minute mark    Identity question.  

3 hr.  6 minute mark   Rapidly depletion of work force, problem with getting people to drive distance for $15 an hour wage. DHL was busing people in.

3 hr. 8.5 minute mark   Discussion of income tax as funding stream.

3 hr.  9 minute mark   JEDD discussion

3 hr.  11 minute mark   Just in last 3 years companies have moved or hot located over an income tax. National Trail has a 1.75% income tax. Income taxes a non factor 20 years ago but now all points are being looked at. And moving over 2%.  

3 hr.  13 minute mark   If you put a JEDD in place it would raise the income tax in that area to 2.75%. Not possible to switch it to Eaton but if it was it would still be 2.5%.

3 hr.  14 minute mark   Property tax can be abated, income tax cannot.

3 hr.  16 minute mark  Can you (county) compete on marketing?

3 hr.  17 minute mark  Developer will try and flip his property before other locally owned property.

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3 hr.  18.5 minute mark  Chris Day asks question if they need to be doing anything or looking at to make site more marketable.

3 hr.  19 minute mark  Narrow focus from shot gun approach.

3 hr.  20.5 minute mark  rural and low cost land.

3 hr.  21.5 minute mark  fear of union shops

3 hr.  22 minute mark  east – west distribution oriented.

3 hr.  23 minute mark  significantly lower traffic count than I-75.  

3 hr.  24 minute mark  Fear of unions in Dayton area, state lost major distributor to Indianapolis last year. Did want Dayton.

3 hr.  25 minute mark  Short ride to DAYTON Airport.

3 hr.  26.5 minute mark  Rhoads or Carver will help in advisory capacity not cannot be seen in competitive system as being too involved.

3 hr.  28. minute mark   Alternative energy market. A green industrial complex will draw more interest. Solar panels on roof, geo thermal. DP&L will buy back electricity.

3 hr. 34  minute mark   discussion on zoning to require green development.

3 hr.  37.5 minute mark   Chris Day question about funding to go green. Third Frontier.

3 hr.  39.5 minute mark   Not for development but for actual companies locating.

3 hr.  42. minute mark   Once development is ready the site needs to be on State website.

3 hr.  46. minute mark   Pretty successful competing with Indiana, very successful against Kentucky.

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File 12

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3 hr.  48.5. minute mark   Rural industrial park funding.

3 hr.  51  minute mark   Recovery zone bonds   Every county an allocation. Use them or lose them.

3 hr.  53. minute mark   Has to be used by end of year. Anything not used will be pooled by state to use on projects so it is not returned to Washington or another state.

3 hr.  54.25 minute mark    Chris Day – Preble has $1.786 million for the economic development
side and facilities’ $2.67 million. County has nothing planned that the funds could be used for. Something has to be turned in by January 31.

3 hr.  57 minute mark Question on right of way distribution.

4 hr.  3.5 minute mark  Chris Day "we have trouble getting recycling going around here."

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March 3, 2010

Of special note here is File 9A which has a request from Chris Day for the "digital copies" so that they have the ability to go in and make a lot more money. On of the Kleinger officials mentions "That's what our clients used to do".  This date also has another tie in with the leachate issue.

File 8

1:30 P.M. – GOOSE CREEK CROSSING UPDATE

1 hr. 41 minute mark     Dave – get Miami University involved again and “Where Imagination Takes Flight”

1 hr. 44 minute mark     Meeting with Kleingers begins.

1 hr. 45 minute mark     Kleingers Rep #1 – We can kind of walk through what our findings and recommendations are at this time and then we can talk about some other things and how we move forward. So the primary recommendation that we came up with was continuing to pursue and ultimately sign some sort of purchase agreement or option agreement with Mr. Kemp and the 180 acres that he owns. That’s a very critical component of this to at least help push forward development of this site. If we can identify a purchase price potentially of how much a future developer or you guys for that matter could buy his land for and it would in concept give you the ability to install the infrastructure that is necessary, that is part of our study. The water plants and the sewer plants and the utilities, that sort of thing.

Kleingers Rep #2 – It would give you a better ranking on the JRS application. I would agree it need to be in place.

Kleingers Rep #1 – Recommendation 2 is moving ahead with the design and permitting of the water and waste water treatment facilities. You know as we have talked about if we move forward relatively soon we can have the water and sewer facilities in place for development to begin in late 2012 ahmm.. For sure early 2013. So we are looking at a little bit of a horizon here, two years or so to be able to move through permitting and design. Anytime you have those long stretches of time it is always a good idea to get started as soon as you can.

1 hr. 47 minute mark     Kleingers Rep #1 – Third recommendation was to commission the IMS & Interstate modification study and the revisions to the traffic impact study that will be required for the project.  The Interstate modification study will identify what improvements that are needed up at I-70 and 127 and will get that approved through the Federal Highway Administration because they regulate basically whatever type of development impacts you have on the interstate.
 

 First Recommendation is to continue moving forward with the rezoning the property. I know you guys have some draft documentation and it sounded like you were going to continue to push that forward and I would
recommend that you do so. That is a big component as to being able to tell developers what exits on the site and what’s your vision for the site. Because without it you are probably going to get some crazy proposals from developers. Developers may not sniff around because they see this long time frame of eight months or whatever time it would take to rezone the property themselves.

1 hr. 47 minute mark    Kleingers Rep #2 –  That’s another one that I would put on the list of.. I think it is worthwhile to go to a point where you feel good about that overlay district which internally ahhh…. You’d probably stop right there until the Kemp piece. I mean because obviously you don’t want him fighting your zoning petitions… so haha..  ahh yeah. 

Kleingers Rep #1 – Yeah and to be candid with you all of these recommendations that are after number are contingent on the Kemp farm acquisition or purchase agreement.  Without it I would not move forward without any of these.

Recommendation #5, is developing covenants and restrictions for the property. It’s typical for these kinds of developments that there are covenants and restrictions.

1 hr. 52 minute mark    Discussion of safety issue with south bound semis swinging into other lane being a safety hazard. Utility pole and limited access designation an issue that needs addressed

Recommendation #7 – rebranding the project. It makes a lot of sense… Developers would have a better idea of where this park is when talking about it. Some geographic identification. They recommend something with “70”.

Recommendation #9  Take a step back and reassess whether you as a county are ready to move forward with construction of the water and sewer and tower. It is truly a financial decision for the county at that point of whether or not you move forward. 

Recommendation #10 is to complete the full design of U.S. 127 and Orphans Rd.

Finally, I think it is the last recommendation we had goes to continue to pursue grants and funding.

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File 9

2 hr. 2 minute mark    Phase 1 electric expense and how to fund water & sewer. Contingent on grants.

2 hr. 4 minute mark    Tap fees one of the biggest revenue generators.

2 hr. 5 minute mark    Usage fees for Pilot and T&A

2 hr. 6 minute mark     Other revenue streams for funding – Conveyance fee is figured at $80,000 per year. Tax rate, TIF revenue lines.

2 hr. 16.8 minute mark    Preble County Commissioner Chris Day – one of the things for Bob and Dave is that we requested that we have the digital copies to these so that we do have the ability to go in and make a lot more money by just changing numbers… Room erupts in HAHAHA

Kleingers Rep – It’s real easy.

Someone – Good idea

That’s what our clients used to do. More hahaha  File 9A

2 hr. 17.5 minute mark    it’s going to come down to the land acquisition costs.

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File 10

2 hr. 22 minute mark    Sustainability.

2 hr. 23 minute mark    Steve Simmons asks question about Boulevard shown and walking trails.

2 hr. 27 minute mark    Simmons thinks we need to do something like this to attract.

2 hr. 28 minute mark    Possible ODNR grants.

2 hr. 29 minute mark    Pocket parks. WIFI enabled.

2 hr. 31 minute mark    Steve Simmons – “And if we can do these amenities and do these you know pocket parks, to me things like this is gonna I’ll just throw it out as an example this will attract the GOOGLES of the world. This will attract the you know corporate offices.”

2 hr. 40.25 minute mark   it’s all pretty much based on the Kemp agreement.

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2 hr. 41 minute mark     Jay – “Here is what I would do if I was right down the hall or at least the major things may be not every little nook and cranny. From a framework perspective, you know both myself and Dave as kind of the Civil Engineering you know technical project manager. And you know again for the tenth time this is all dependent on KEMP. This is if we get that secured. A suggestion or a suggested kind of road map going forward you know might be to to schedule you know monthly update meetings. I don’t think we need to meet at this pace but this was driven by the time frame. But by the same token if the KEMP thing gets signed. There is certainly going to be enough, you know we’re not going to be you know if you agree to that we’re not going to be coming up here once a month just twiddling our thumbs.  There’s going to be things whether it’s on the economic development, marketing, funding etc. Whether it’s on the water, sewer, roadway.. whatever there are going to be things that need to be addressed you just can’t drop it there. So were thinking from a frame work of just keeping the ball rolling, monthly update meetings you know type of things.

2 hr. 42 minute mark    We know something is going to be need IF THE KEMP DEAL GETS SIGNED

2 hr. 43.5 minute mark    Branding logo or brand discussion. Web blasts.

2 hr. 44.5 minute mark    Chris Day – So I guess just kind of a recap. What we need to accomplish in the short term here, we’ve got to get the agreement finalized with KEMP. That’s the the deal breaker. Ahhmmm then the next thing is if we are going to rebrand it that rebranding need to be done ASAP prior to the April 1^st application for JRS.

Kleingers Jay? – Again just my opinion, I would say n. I think I mean we’ve got basically if we… I’m going to give them this, this will go into the packet of the JRS app. So in their eyes hopefully this is a good slick looking branded type of thing. I think the critical date is the first time that we out to a press release to the world and I don’t know when that date is yet. It’s sometime after the KEMP deal, that’s that date. But I would want to have everything, the name, the colors the look and feel. Because we’re going to give pretty picture out to the newspapers with the brand and logo so I don’t know what that date is.

Chris Day – But, I guess my thought is, is that and they may not have to be done the April 1^st deadline but if we are going to go after the JRS application. We need a press release, somewhere to coincide with this saying; here’s our plans, here’s an application that we’ve applied for. I mean atttt least.

Kleingers  – I would say that if you were thinking press release for that then I would then agree with you.  I would say yes, when ever that first press release is that would be my drop dead date.

2 hr. 46.5 minute mark    Steve Simmons – So we’ve got to meet with the trustees and that whole room full of people before it goes to the press.

Chris Day – correct

2 hr. 49.5 minute mark   Meeting over

After meeting chit chat.

2 hr. 50.5 minute mark   Katie Worthington – zoning will start first of next month then we are going to try and put it all through at once.

2 hr. 50.8 minute mark    Kleingers – “If there is anything we can do on this Kemp deal to help this along, will do it”.

Chris Day – That is going to be a priority, I’m going to give it to Marty. I was gone the last part of the week and stuff. Last week and first of this one.

End 2hr. 55 minute mark on cd  

15.03 minutes – 3.44 MB

File 12

3:00 P.M. – SANITARY FACILITIES MANAGER DISCUSSION

2 hr. 55.5 minute mark    Bob – Ok we ready? At this time I will accept a motion to go into EXECUTIVE SESSION to discuss the employment of a public employee.

REPEATED MULTIPLE TIMES.

2 hr. 58.25 minute mark    Chris – I do have a question. Where are we at on the LEACHATE? Ahhhhh RFP’S? For engineering?

Connie – I think it must still be with Matt sp?? Capaneitti sp?? Nothing has came into this office.

Chris – I thought we we were we sending them or asking for a request for proposals?

Connie – I don’t, I’ve not seen that. What we’re holding up on and what I have been asked to schedule and who I have been asked to schedule back in is Tom about the gas to energy.

Chris – no what I am referring to is the LEACHATE. I thought that Steve and Tom and Katie were going to put an RFP together.

Connie – I have not seen it, nothing has come into this office.

David – I thought they were also going to review with Malcolm Perney sp?? If any of the engineering costs had gone up?

Connie – They were.

Chris – no no no that’s on the gas to energy. I’m asking about the LEACHATE, the engineering for the LEACHATE.

Connie – the last I knew Katie and Steve and Tom were going to come up with those.

Chris – So we haven’t got anything yet?

Connie – no, I’ve not seen anything.

Dave – Key Engineering remember had done some preliminary work a couple years ago.

Chris – It was determined that those contracts had been so old that we would have to redo em’

Connie – Right

Chris – correct?

Connie – you’re correct

Dave – you’re asking we go out for new requests

Chris – yeah I can ask Katie or Steve or whoever. I don’t have a problem with that.

Dave – I mean that is what you were trying to ask Connie.

Chris – yeah

Bob – we have not sent them out yet that is what you are saying?

Connie – they have not even come into the office yet.

Chris – all they had to do was basically update the proposal or the specs and we approve getting those back out. I mean that should have been done.

Bob – Do we need to go down and talk to Katie? Is that correct?

Connie – I’ll call her. I’ve got Tom schedule in to answer any questions and hopefully show us the drawing of the proposed building.

3 hr. 1.25 minute mark    Bob – I noticed the letter to the editor from Parks ??? at Lakengren

 

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April 30, 2010

The only thing I really found interesting was FILE 10A . David is talking about the Powerpoint presentation to be shown to the Township Trustees and Chris Day told him not to put anything negative in there. There are negatives involved with the Goose Creek issue but they were not presented to the Trustees.

 

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 August 30, 2010   SHEENA METZGER (JRS APPLICATION & SITE VISIT)

The audio for this meeting is available online and offers a verbal review on the rejected JRS application of 2010

File 9

26.14 minutes – 6 MB

File 10

23.20 minutes – 5.43 MB

52.25  minute mark     Begins –  Background on this round, they received 44 applications, 3 formally withdrew after they did a completeness review on those. They reviewed and scored 41 applications.

52.50  minute mark     Explanation on who was involved and how site was scored. No one from geographic area would be involved to avoid conflict of interest.  They reviewed the site and came to a group consensus in June.

55.50  minute mark      How it was scored and how to improve application.

56.50  minute mark      Nothing confirmed on putting funding for JRS back on ballot.

57  minute mark      Mr. Painter from Kleingers comes in to room and apologizes for coming in late.

58  minute mark      Project scored a 96 from the review committee and was ranked 7th out of the low intensity.

58.3  minute mark      District priority ranking of "4"  these would be bonus points.

59  minute mark      There were three ranks – Acceptable – Preferable – Extraodinary.

The presentation received a "Preferable" ranking. Liked the marketing.

Negatives were at the time there was no land options on property.

Would also of liked to hear more on what green industries they would be marketing to.

1 hr.  minute mark      Pretty wide net for green industry and would like to see some idea of how it would be done.

Branding and marketing was a strong point on application.

Need for more focus on the targeted industries would have helped. Who in those industries are you specifically targeting?

1 hr.   2.5  minute mark      Section C on next page… need for financial assistance scored a preferable. At time of guide line release Preble had 11.5% unemployment.

Next page had economic impact and the site scored an "Acceptable" not located in an Appalachian distressed or WARN.

1 hr.   3.5  minute mark      Not a huge population in area or a lot of development occurring.

1 hr.   5  minute mark       Commissioner Day mentions population being impacted by GM closings. It might bump the application to "Preferable"

1 hr.   7 minute mark       Most of the review is done before the application.

1 hr.   8  minute mark       Section D  scored a "Preferable"

Unclear on where all the funding was coming from for some of the projects.

Land options were not executed at time of application. They were not executed by the time of the presentation. Funding recommendation had already been made when notification arrived on land purchase agreement.

1 hr.  10.25  minute mark on cd  

26.14 minutes – 6 MB

File 10

1 hr.   11.25  minute mark       Have had problems with land options.

Section D  scored an "Acceptable"

Liked access to I-70.

1 hr.   12 minute mark    Had concern over sanitary building being the first thing people see when they come into Park. Additional narrative on how the utilities will be provided to the site.  Need to know where the funding is coming from would be helpful to future application. Discussion on mitigating an underground storage tank and homes in the area.

1 hr.   13 minute mark    More detrimental to not discuss those issues than to bring them out.

1 hr.   14 minute mark     It becomes an issue as to what is going on here?

1 hr.   15 minute mark     Section F  "Acceptable"  land options came into play. Street lighting, electric and telephone issue in budget. Want it in writing. Timeline for construction.

1 hr.   17  minute mark     Scope of work issue discussed.

1 hr.   17.5  minute mark     What happens if you don't get grants?

1 hr.   19 minute mark     Section G  "Preferable"   

1 hr.   20 minute mark     Include a Master Plan.

1 hr.   21 minute mark     Tie to County and Region

1 hr.   22 minute mark     Section H additional attributes received 6 points because of  I-70. Need tied in with strategic plan. Regional support.

1 hr.   23 minute mark     Last section site categories received 15 points with commercial airport within 30 miles.

1 hr.   24 minute mark     Better narrative.

1 hr.   24.5  minute mark    Came in fourth for District and next round will only forward three instead of the six this time. Keep that in mind when moving forward.

1 hr.   26 minute mark    No other other grant application programs available and they are becoming harder to obtain with less and less funding. Next round of JRS just as competitive and less money available.

1 hr.   27 minute mark    Question on EDA Grant

1 hr.   27.5 minute mark    OWDA Grant received for just under $450,000

1 hr.   30  minute mark     No issues with acreage. More with targeted industry and who you were looking to attract.

Competitive application probably end of next June.

1 hr.  33.5 minute mark on cd  

23.20 minutes – 5.43 MB