ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
OF WAYNE COUNTY, INDIANA
Board Meeting Minutes
Monday, December 3, 2018
BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT:Barrett, Frame, Parker, Salazar, Templin, Warner, Witte, Yaeger

BOARD MEMBERS ABSENT:

Golden, Jackson, Leisure, Russell

STAFF PRESENT:Shaffer, Doty, Mitchell, Geres

GUESTS PRESENT:

Baldwin, Doug – Omen USA Plant Manager
Burns, Denny – Wayne County Commissioner
Crist, Duane – Indiana American Water
Oler, Ron – Richmond Common Council / Ivy Tech
Plasterer, Jeff – Wayne County Council / EIRPCRussell, Alan – Grace Sales and EngineeringSolo, Pam – Omen USA HR ManagerSowers, George – EDC AttorneyThurlow, Kim – Ivy Tech Community CollegeWorrell, Ben – McGuire Sponsel (Omen’s Consultant)

CALL TO ORDER
Board Chair Frame called the meeting of the Board of Directors of the Economic Development Corporationof Wayne County, Indiana to order at 4:02 p.m. on Monday, December 3, 2018 in the EDC board room.
APROVAL OF MINUTES
Frame stated the minutes from the November 5, 2018 board meeting were on pages 2-4 of the board
packet. Motion by Witte, second by Barrett to approve the November 5, 2018 minutes as presented.
Motion carried.
TREASURER’S REPORT
December 2018 Financial Report
Parker provided the treasury report. He reported on being under budget $4,994.46 MTD and underbudget $90,825.88 YTD. He reported line items 2212 – Printed Office Supplies and 2249 – In-House
Supplies would need transfers. Motion by Salazar, second by Witte to approve the November 2018
financials. Motion carried.
EDIT GRANT APPLICATIONS
A. EDIT Application #18-192
Shaffer reported on EDIT Application #18-192 for Omen USA. They are expanding with plans to invest$15M and create 200 new full-time positions. HR Manager Pam Silo, Plant Manager Doug Baldwin, andLocation Advisory Consultant Ben Worrell were present to talk more about the project and company.
Motion by Parker, second by Witte to approve EDIT application #18-192 as presented. Motion carried.
B. EDIT Application #18-193
Shaffer reported on EDIT application #18-193 for Grace Sales and Engineering. This is a new start-up
company that will supply Envirotech Extrusions. Owner Alan Russell was present to talk more about thecompany. He plans to invest $1.1M and create 14 new full-time positions. Motion by Barrett, second byYaeger to approve EDIT application #18-193 as presented, with the added stipulation that grant not be
paid out until the $765,000 has been invested in 2019 due to this being a start-up operation. Motion
carried.
COMMITTEE REPORTS
A. Nominating Committee – Frame reported the committee met and has presented the following slateof officers to the board for approval:
Chair – Bob WarnerVice Chair – Sayward Salazar
Treasurer – Randy Templin
Secretary – Larry Parker
He opened it up to receive other nominations from the board, and there were none. Motion byWitte, second by Barrett to accept the slate of officers for 2019 as presented. Motion carried.
B. Executive – Frame reported the committee met on 11/29 and reviewed EDIT applications andlistened to an update on the Japan trip.
C. Industrial Park – Warner reported the committee also met on 11/29, received a WWRSD update,discussed industrial park expansion, and received an update from Beals-Moore and Associates onMIP Phase I.
EDC STAFF REPORTS
Geres – Geres reported working on Project Franklin, both with the response B and helping prepare thewebinar presentation of our community that she observed Valerie present to the company earlier in theday. She also reported working on the formatting for the slide show for the Japan trip, scheduling board
orientation meetings and preparing for year end. She reported on the upcoming board changes:
Chad Bolser would replace Paul Witte for the Wayne County Area Chamber of Commerce, Kyle Turner
would replace Johnnie Barrett for the Centerville Town Council and Peter Zaleski would replace JoshRussell for the Wayne County Council
Mitchell – Mitchell reported having met with all Wayne County high schools. Three schools have or will
be tested for WorkKeys – 15 at Northeastern, 20 at Western Wayne, and 36 at Hagerstown. She will also
be coordinating testing with the Excel Center and Adult Education. She is starting to work on the springschedule for Find a Job Fridays. She reported on a roundtable discussion held by the Excel Center withthe employers in the customer service sector about building a pathway for the students of the Excel
Center to gain employment with their companies upon graduation and to build upon their skills withcertifications and/or training specific to their industry. She updated the board on regional stellar efforts
with the Eastern Indiana Regional Planning Commission to be one of two who will be awarded funding –they are only one of five who are applying for the funding (originally one of six, but one dropped out.)
The award will be announced on December 10th. She reported working with Beals-Moore and Associates
on Phase I of the Midwest Industrial Park to make it more marketable. She reported on attending
several community meetings, 3 BRE visits, and training on the Opportunity Zones, which Richmondcurrently has two zones.
Doty – Doty reported on the release of the first of three videos for Home in Wayne which feature Brianand Molly Whalen who made a decision to stay in Wayne County and make it their home. The next

video will target the low cost of living in Wayne County. The last video will feature Molly Whalen and herexperience moving here. The first video garnered 2,100 views. She encouraged everyone to share andlike the videos on social media. She reported on receiving another shipment of the Home in Wayne
coasters and would be distributing them to area bars and restaurants for the holidays. She reported on
finalizing the ad for the Livability magazine which the EDC partnered with the Tourism Bureau on andwould send the message that Wayne County is a great place to visit and a great place to live. Shecontinues to update the website and lastly reported on attending a ‘Train the Trainer’ session on crisis
communication offered by the Wayne County Health Department.
Shaffer – Shaffer reported on being very busy with Project Franklin. The lead was acquired through theEuropean American Investment Council, an association we belong to through our partnership with theEast Central Indiana Regional Partnership. Shaffer was able to meet with the consultants directly at thelast conference she attended. She also reported on the Japan trip she attended with Mayor Snow of theCity of Richmond and Dyron Dabney of Earlham College here locally, Mindy Kenworthy of the ECIRP, andtwo other ED counterparts who belong to ECIRP and their mayors. She reported on visiting Unnan,
Richmond’s sister city, and eight new investment meetings, including three major OEMS: Subaru,Toyota, and Honda to establish relationships for the supplier networks. The State of Indiana has 280
Japanese companies and are #1 in the nation as far as FDI from Japan because of these relationships andinitiatives.
OTHER BUSINESSBoard Appointments

Board Chair Tim Frame thanked our outgoing board members for their time and service to theEDC board of directors.
INDOT Discussion
Vice Chair Robert Warner updated the board on a regional coordination and planning meeting at theINDOT Greenfield District office on 12/6 at 9:00 am and encouraged either participation or to relay
items that needed addressed to him
ADJOURNMENT
Frame adjourned the meeting at 4:45 p.m.
NEXT BOARD MEETING – Monday, January 7, 2019
at EDC of Wayne County, Richmond, Indiana at 4:00 pm