IDC Minutes 11-21-1989
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MINUTES
MONTICELLO INDUSTRIAL DEVE OPMENT COMMITTEE
Tuesday, November 21, 1989 - 7:00 AM
City Hall
MEMBERS PRESENT: Chairperson She ley Johnson, Don Smith, Jay
Morrell, Dennisl Taylor, Lowell Schrupp, Arve
Grimsmo, Linda ielke, Harvey Kendall, Ken Maus,
Dale Lungwitz, on Hoglund, Rick Wolfstel1er,
and Ollie Korop hak.
MEMBERS ABSENT: Dave Peterson, ale Pogatchnik, and John McVay.
1. CALL TO ORDER.
Chairperson Shelley Johnson aIled the IDC meeting to order
at 7:00 AM.
2. APPROVAL OF THE OCTOBER 19, 989 IDC MINUTES.
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Corrections or additions to
Ken Maus was not present at
referred to his opinion that
Engineering was not smooth m
perspective. Don Smith made
minutes with the above named
Ron Hoglund, the minutes wer
3. WELCOME OF NEW IDC MEMBER:
he October 19th minutes were
he meeting and Don Smith
the presentation to Remmele
ant from a graphical
a motion to approve the October
corrections, seconded by
approved as corrected.
OHN MCVAY.
John McVay having a previous commitment with a client
outside of the area was unab e to attend the IDC meeting.
4. CONSIDERATION OF PROSPECTS:
a.
Remmele Engineering - co
comparisons between the
and Monticello. Remmele
another location than Bi
because of the concern 0
or trucking onto Highway
biggest edge on Montice1
metro phones. John McVa
with Remmele on comparat
Minnesota and the indust
offered by NSP. Koropch
property taxes between E
prepared building fees,
suggested to be waived 0
Monticello's industrial
to Interstate 94 are a p
.
b.
tinues to research the
ommunities of Elk River
s desire to expand in
Lake Township is
safety for employees
10. Elk River's
o is the availablity of
continues to work
ve electrical rates within
ial reduction rate programs
k has prepared comparative
'k River and Monticello,
ook-up fees which are
written into TIF plan.
ites with easy access
Genereux - is also conti their research for
a site relocation betwee St. Michael area and
Monticello. Decision to be made within the next
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b. few months. Bill and Ba, b Tapper attended the IDC
in October which may ind cate an interest in Monticello.
c. Cardinal IG - Koropchak repared information on the TIF
pay-as-you-go option wit a carry through for a lease
reduction per square foot on an approximate 130,000
square foot building. 0 contractors were contacted
for construction of a b~ild-to-lease option: Winkelman
Building Corporation and Peterson Assoicates. In the
first quarter of the ye r, Cardinal's Board of Directors
will make a decision on whether to expand or relocate
their West Lake -
d.
Bridge Water Telephone
prepare a financial pro
to consider relocating
from West County Road 3
to better conform with
Anderson is to prepare
sq ft structure in acco
e.
Andersen Corporation -
on a lead that Andersen
their operation. I con
possible inside contact
name of the President.
plans to expand at thei
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ompany - Koropchak is to
osal to encourage Bridge Water
heir service storage building
into the industrial park
he City Ordinance. Gary
layout of the 12,000
dance with City Ordinance.
oropchak followed through
Corporation was expanding
acted Mr. Lizardo for a
person and was given the
Andersen Corporation only
Bayport location.
f. Bondhus Corporation - K vin Doty, Lois Payne, and
Koropchak worked on a r volving loan fund for Bondhus'
expansion of a heating ,urnace and the addition to
house the furnace. All was placed in order, until
Lois informed us that t e Board of Directors advised
John Bondhus to give no personal guarantees and
collateral was reduced 0 not meet GMEF guidelines.
Mr. John Ingve, Arve Gr"msmo, Ken Maus and myself
met and reviewed the GM' F guidelines and policies.
Mr. Ingve, Chairman of he Bondhus Board of Directors,
advised John Bondhus no! to give personal guarantees
because of the strength of the company compared to
the small amount of the loan. Mr. Ingve understood
the policy from the per eption of City loaned dollars.
It was Mr. Ingve' s deci, ion that the GMEF was not
applicable for this Bon hus' project, however,
maybe in the future.
g. Cargill - based on a leiad, Koropchak contacted Mr.
Mike Westphal who has oved to Monticello to research
a site location for a seed mill (corn meal and sweetner).
Mr. Westphal was not at liberty to discuss details
until after the first of the year. Chairperson Johnson
informed the IDe that "t would be a relocation from
Belegrade which employed 16-20 people and they were
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g. looking at sites east of St. Cloud, Elk River and
Monticello areas.
h. K-Mart - Rick Wo1fste11e reported that K-Mart is in
the process of obtaining financing for the portion
of the new structure rat er than their first plan
to refinance the existi~ mall plus the new addition.
The City Council has coq erated in this manner by
approving a subdivision 'dividing the property line
at the existing wall with no setbacks. No word
has ever been received hat K-Mart is not coming,
plans are for a spring onstruction. Storm sewer,
site ponding, and stree' feasibility studies are
being completed which m y alter the TIF plan or
level of assistance.
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Sunny Fresh, Inc. - Ma
that the City recently
for a strong disposal i
almost killed the bacte
Plant. NSP may also be
Sunny Frssh is under ne
been very cooperative w
the IDC that Rick Wolf
and herself had rece
production/management
program.
or Ken Maus advised the IDC
eavi1y fined Sunny Fresh
to the sewage system which
ia at the Water Treatment
a contributing factor.
management and has not
th the City. Koropchak informed
teller, Linda Mielke, Bob Voecks,
t1y attended Sunny Fresh's
a1ity control kick-off
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Koropchak informed the IDC that a cover letter and Part I
of the Business Retention Survey was mailed to seventeen
industrial businesses in M ntice110 and asked for
IDC volunteers to accompan her on the plant visit to
complete Part II of the su vey.
5. CONSIDERATION OF THE BUSINE, S RETENTION SURVEY VISITS.
Monday, November 27 10:00 arson Manufacturing - Bud Schrupp
11:15 & P Transports -
Tuesday, November 28 10:00 Electro Industries - Ron Hoglund
1:30 NSP - Linda Mielke
3:00 NAWCO - Ken Maus
Wednesday, November 29 10: 0 Automatic Garage Door
8: 0 Rainbow Enterprises - Ken Maus
1: 0 WEB Precision Machining - Shelley Johnson
Thursday, November 30 9:00 FSI Don Smith
10:00 Clow Stamping Harvey Kendall
1:30, Bondhus Corporation - Ken Maus
Friday, December 1 8:00 Su ny Fresh -
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6. CONSIDERATION OF AN UPDATE 0 THE EAS PETITION.
Koropchak informed the IDC t. at the EAS petition was
mailed to the Public Utiliti s Commission, the Bridge
Water Telephone Company, and Northwestern Bell. The
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telephone companies have 30 ays to contest the petition
which is highly unlikely bec use all petition signatures
were validated for duplicate! and existing numbers on
software at the Bridgewater, elephone Company.
7. CONSIDERATION OF AN UPDATE 0 THE AIRPORT ISSUE.
Chairperson Johnson informed the IDC that Mr. Bob Voecks
and his son are interested ~ the future of the existing
airport. Bill, his son, is conducting a survey of
business and residents interest to establish a need
to upgrade the current faciity. The data collected
is part of a class project t the Aviation School,
University of North Dakota. Lee Hurd at Busch Travel
is interested in expanding he airport.
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Koropchak reported a decrea e in ticket sales this year.
Suggestions to evaluate for the future are ticket price,
quality of speaker, maybe t me for something new.
Koropchak will prepare a fi ancial report on the banquet.
8. CONSIDERATION TO EVALUATE T E
9. CONSIDERATION TO UPDATE THE MARKETING PROGRAM PROGRESS.
Koropchak reported that the
which was targeted for pres
not complete because the sp
Henning & Associates wasn't
staff received three pages
will immediately work on it
preliminary hard copy print
ntation in November was
cific data required by
complete. The city
f requested data. Staff
10. OTHER BUSINESS.
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The IDC further discussed ti e K-Mart issue, Arve Grimsmo
recalling a statement by Mr. Dalhgren, City Planners,
" a healthy mall is a hea1t y downtown". Mayor Maus
expressed that the communit will have the retail/commerica1
businesses when the community can support it. Harvey
Kendall expressed that a CQ unity our size does not
always have this opportuni~y. Don Smith expressed his
view that we are in a busi ess world change and
Monticello is in the midd1 of it: vacant buildings,
larger businesses expandin as they are strong. vital,
aggressive, and growing. heir need is for larger
square footage buildings w ich we don't have. In
reality we may have larger square footage and less
owners and also maybe reas n for a decrease in IDC
banquet ticket sales. The IDC agreed that their focus
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would continue on industria recruitment and retention.
however. do support the ret i1/commerica1 sector.
Dale Lungwits reported he w u1d have more information
on the Titan Recreational P oducts project next month.
11. ADJOURNMENT.
The IDC meeting adjourned
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Ollie Koropchak
IDC Executive Secretary
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