Jo-Carroll Depot LRA Board of Directors
Meeting Minutes
MAY 5, 2010
I. CALL TO ORDER:
Chairman Bill McFadden called the board
meeting to order at 3:06 p.m. on Wednesday, May 5, 2010 at the Jo-Carroll Depot
LRA Conference Room,
II. ROLL CALL was answered as follows: Present-Don Crawford, Steve Keeffer, Bill Wright, Paul Hartman and Bill McFadden. Present: 5. Ayes: 5. Nays: 0. Absent Bill Sparboe, Ed Olds and Ron Smith. Absent: 3. LRA attorney and staff present: Phil Jensen, Diane Komiskey and Mara Roche. Guests present: Tom Kamper (RVPR), Ole Bly Pace (RVPR), Bill Hooton (IITC), Jan Davis.
III. Executive Session
A motion to enter
closed session at 3:09 p.m. as permitted for the following under:
5 ILCS 120/2 ( c ) (1) the
appointment, employment, compensation, discipline, performance or dismissal of
specific employees of the public body or legal counsel for the public body, including hearing testimony on a complaint lodged against
an employee of the public body or against legal counsel for the public body to
determine its validity and 5 ILCS 120/2(c)(6).
The setting of a price for sale or lease of property owned by the public
body was made by Bill
Wright, seconded by Don Crawford. The motion carried by roll call vote as
follows: Bill Wright, Don Crawford, Steve Keeffer, Paul Hartman and Bill
McFadden. Ayes: 5, Nays: 0
A motion to return to
open session at 5:00 p.m. was made by Paul Hartman, seconded by Steve Keeffer.
The motion carried by roll call vote as follows: Bill Wright, Don Crawford, Steve
Keeffer, Paul Hartman and Bill McFadden. Ayes: 5, Nays: 0.
Cindy Irwin arrived at
5:10
IV. Pledge
of Allegiance was recited.
V. AGENDA
ADDITIONS – None
VI. CONSENT AGENDA
A. Minutes of Board Meeting regular of April 7, 2010.
B. Minutes of Executive session of April 7, 2010.
C. CD transfer approved by Finance Committee
A motion to approve
the consent agenda was made by Don Crawford, seconded by Steve Keeffer carried
by voice vote. The consent agenda included the transfer of $153,423.34 to
CD#401839 at THE National Bank at a rate of 1.35 % APU for six months.
VII. OLD BUSINESS
A. Committee Reports
1. Finance/Personnel Committee
a. Platting of 3A and concept plan of 3B
A motion to move
ahead with the platting of 3A and concept plan of 3B to
b. Use agreements
A motion to grant an
extension of the RESCAR Use Agreement for building 402 for salt storage and
grant a Use Agreement to HFPD for the use of building 229 was made by Bill
Wright, seconded by Paul Hartman. The motion carried by voice vote.
2. Infrastructure Committee – Steve Keeffer reported that the committee was continuing to work on preparing the Water & Sewer plan for the counties and that there will be a meeting with IDPH and IEPA in June.
3. Economic Development Committee – No action for full board’s consideration.
VIII. NEW BUSINESS
A. Employ part-time bookkeeper/secretary
A motion to employ
Jan Davis of
B. Option, right of first refusal, sale or lease of heliport
A motion to sell 12
acres of the heliport to Eastland Feed and Grain for $3,500 per acre contingent
upon an agreement on the extension of the water and sewer was made by Bill Wright,
seconded by Paul Hartman. The motion carried by voice vote.
Devlor Renewal was encouraged to consider locating its
project on other property in the
C. Staff Reports
1. Executive Director – Submitted a written report and read highlights. Mrs. Komiskey highlighted the progress made on expediting the transfer of property. She said that during a meeting immediately prior to the board meeting with Bill McFadden and John DeBack of BRAC, Mr. DeBack informed the LRA that BRAC wants to expedite the transfer of LRA property, will adhere to the April 15-announced transfer dates for Parcels 10 and 18 of June 30, 2011, and that there is a strong possibility of being able to greatly reduce the projected date of 2023 for the final transfer of property. At a meeting on March 15, a need for improved communication between the local Army employees and LRA was discussed. Mrs. Komiskey presented a spreadsheet for recording milestones along the path to transfer to Cindy Irwin, who agreed that the Army could use it as a basis to provide the requested data.
Bank Account Balance – As of May 1, 2010 the grand total of LRA money is $1,812,962.97.
2.
Property Manager – submitted written report and read highlights from the report
and noted that the LRA did not receive any property from the Army in April 2010
and had not received property from the Army since April 2008. The LRA is
expecting to receive parcel 14 and the DOAR (old
3. Bookkeeper
a. Cash Flow – March cash flow was as follows: $8,316.64 income, $35,781.98 expenses indicating a difference of $27,465.34.
b.
Budget Update – Five months into the budget year, revenue was $144,385.87 and $242,183
was budgeted, and expenditures were $142,392.31 with $613,122 budgeted.
D. Board of Directors Report
1. UMRI Port Authority meets 9 a.m., May 12, 2010
2. Foreign Trade Zone #271 meets 5 p.m., June 7
3. Jo-Carroll Enterprise Zone meets 2 p.m., July 7
4. Other director’s reports –Paul Hartman said he would like to have the
E. Attorney’s Report & Recommendations
1. Updated the board on the collection of the judgment in LRA v. Giokas.
2. Recommendations - None
IX. OTHER
REPORTS TO THE BOARD
A. Commander’s Rep – Submitted written report
B.
Mr. Hooton (IITC) stated that within the next
4 weeks they will be loading the dried distillers grain, DDG, they have here into
ISO containers--containers
manufactured to International Organization for Standardization specifications. This will be the
first significant export from
C. US Fish & Wildlife Service – No one
present.
D. Guests – None
present.
X. PUBLIC COMMENTS – None
XI. ADJOURNMENT
A motion to adjourn was made at 5:42p.m. by Bill Wright, seconded by Steve
Keeffer. The motion carried by voice vote.
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Mara Roche, Acting LRA Board Secretary