01-30-14 Redevelopment Commission Minutes

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South Bend Redevelopment Commission Regular Meeting —January 30, 2014 6. NEW BUSINESS A. South Bend Central Development Area (1) Resolution No. 3203 approving and authorizing the execution of an Amendment to the Addendum to the Master Agency Agreement (Hill & Colfax Drainage Improvements Project — Supplement #1) Mr. Kain noted that on August 15, 2013 the Commission approved an Amendment to the Master Agency Agreement for consulting services related to drainage work on Commission owned property at the northwest comer of Hill and Colfax. Resolution No. 3203 approves an Amendment to that Addendum adding additional scope of services to the proposal from Abonmarche, and increases the budget for the project. On December 12, 2013 the Commission approved a contract for sale of land with Colfax Hill Partners, LLC to sell the Hill & Colfax parcel. As part of this agreement, the Commission agreed to additional hardscape improvements (parking lot paving, striping, sidewalks and landscaping) to the site in the amount of $110,000. In addition to the hardscape improvements on -site, staff now recommends off -site improvements around the Hill & Colfax property, including changes in pavement markings to the street to enable on- street parking, new lighting and landscaping in limited areas. The project budget for these improvements is $204,750. Staff requests approval of Resolution No. 3203 and its Amendment to the Addendum to the Master Agency Agreement with a project budget of $204,750. Mr. Downes asked whether the on- street parking on Colfax would be angle parking. Mr. Kain responded that there is not room for angle parking. Part of the scope of services of this contract will be to determine how many parking spaces the project can get on the street. Upon a motion by Mr. Downes, seconded by Ms. Schey and unanimously carried, the Commission approved Resolution No. 3203 approving and authorizing the execution of an Amendment to the Addendum to the Master Agency Agreement (Hill & Colfax Drainage Improvements Project — Supplement #1). B. Airport Economic Development Area (1) Proposal from Hull Associates regarding Environmental Delineation and Sampling in the area of Ignition Park. Ms. Kolata noted that the proposal from Hull Associates concerns an area that we used to call Studebaker Area A, which is essentially the current Ignition Park. The Commission entered that area into IDEM's Voluntary Remediation Program (VRP) about ten years ago. As part of the VRP we would identify what our environmental problems are, write a plan of addressing those problems, and do the work. Then we would get from IDEM a Covenant Not to Sue. So we entered the VRP at a very early stage. IDEM has never been content with our fit because we weren't at a point where we could submit a remediation work plan. They asked for one, we submitted one, they said it was incomplete, we said that's because there are still buildings on the site. We have to take the buildings down before we can test