Very, very short. The shortest regular meeting of the Board of Estimates I have ever seen.
Only Paul Soglin, Larry Palm, Brian Solomon and Lauren Cnare in attendance. This is Dean Brassers last Board of Estimates meeting.
ITEMS 1 – 4
Mayor asks for a motion on items 1 – 4. No separations requested. All items passed. Everyone gets up and leaves.
CLOSING TID 23
They move to dissolve TID 23
Satya Rhodes-Conway and Mke Verveer now in attendance.
Rhodes-Conway asks for some background from staff.
Joe Gromacki, TIF Coordinator says that we close TIDs from time to time when they have done everything they were intended to do, including recovering all the costs. This TID was created in 1994, it has been most recently amended in 2009 for completing the outer ring and the square, it stayed in its budget for expenditures foretasted with original and amended project plan. It had a list of projects listed in the resolution, Mullins project at 22 E Mifflin, base values were low in those days and 51.9M in growth, its a good examples of TIF when well managed and it performs well.
No questions.
Verveer says appropriate this is here for his last meeting, he wants to thank him for assistance with TIF, and appreciates him supporting extending for a year, the timing is ripe, we will get almost 400K to the city when the district closes and that will help in the tight predicament we are in. He may have more to say at the end of the meeting. Verveer thanks him for keeping it alive for one more year. Thanks Gromacki too, but he’s not leaving.
ITEM 6
Allied Area Task for security report.
Cnare asks why it is at BOE.
Mayor says it is a good question.
Cnare says there is no dollar amounts.
Mayor asks if when adopted it was asked that the report be sent back here.
Solomon doesn’t know.
Mayor says maybe they are proud of what they accomplished.
Cnare says this is a good place to do it.
Mayor says they can get the answer at the council meeting.
Cnare says its a good report and good they have done it and good model for other areas of the city, looks forward to seeing it again with expenditures attached maybe?
Motion passes.
ITEMS 7 & 8
Moved approval, no discussion, motion passes.
ITEM 9 – OVERTURE ARTS STUDY
They move approval. Cnare asks if there is an RFP that goes with this item, so we know what is being asked.
Mayor says he signed off on the RFP on Thursday or Friday, you will have it by the council meeting.
Rhodes-Conway notes it is not in legistar.
Mayor asks if they want to refer.
Cnare amends her motion to referral.
Solomon asks about the timeline.
Mayor says another two weeks and as alder Verveer pointed out, that after going 12 years . . . interrupts himself and asks Sally Miley about the status of the RFP. She says that it is being tweaked. Mayor says motion is referral and it passes on a voice vote.
ITEM 10 – COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC MARKET
They move approval.
Cnare sasy that as she reads the language, the picture of a public market it gelling to be about food, is she correct in that assumption.
Mayor says yes.
Rhodes-Conway says food and food related.
Jokes . . . .
Larry Palm asks about Dane County programs on local food production, part of a grant they are getting.
Rhodes-Conway says that they are talkignabout membership of the committee and experts they want to bring in to help the group. She says they are aware of the work of the Food Council and other group and CARPC grant is important as well and places like MACSAC and Reap and UW Extension. If you know of others, let us know, we don’t want to do this in a vacuum and connect with everyone who is working on it and figure out what the city role is and how to move forward the work they have been doing.
Palm says it is one thing to do that in the process and another to figure out who to appoint to the committee.
Rhodes-Conway says luckily the Mayor’s office gets to make those decisions. Tells Palm to talk to Anne Monks.
Motion passes.
ADJOURN
Verveer says this is Dean’s last meeting, his recollection was 16 years ago dean was sitting in a different chair, now in the big chair and he looks forward to seeing Deb in the chair. Thanks Dean for his assistance the many years and outside the meetings, you’re a true public servant, we’ll have more to say on Thursday and at the next council meeting.
Clapping.
They adjourn.
