ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
OF WAYNE COUNTY, INDIANA
Board Meeting Minutes
Monday, July 11, 2016
BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT:Clark, Elzemeyer, Frame, Green, Jackson, Parker, Russell, Upchurch,Warner, Witte

BOARD MEMBERS ABSENT:

Barrett, Cohen

STAFF PRESENT:Shaffer, Doty, Geres

STAFF ABSENT:Henry

GUESTS PRESENT:

Oler, Ron – Richmond Common Council
Plasterer, Jeff – Wayne County Council
Shuey, Mickey – Palladium-Item
Sowers, George – Attorney for EDC

CALL TO ORDER
Board Chair Witte called the meeting of the Board of Directors of the Economic Development Corporationof Wayne County, Indiana to order at 4:00 p.m. on Monday, July 11, 2016, in the EDC board room.
APROVAL OF MINUTES
Witte stated the minutes from the March 7th, May 2nd, and May 19th board meetings were on pages 2-10of the board packet. Motion by Green, second by Upchurch to approve the March 7th, May 2nd, and May
19th minutes as presented. Motion carried.
TREASURER’S REPORT
Warner reported the treasurer’s report included financials for March, April, May and June. He verbally
reported on the most recent month, June. For the month of June, the EDC was under budget $1,899.01
for the month and under budget $28,642.05 for the year. He reported on line items over budget for themonth and year and stated the account balances could be found on page 29. Motion by Jackson, secondby Green to approve the financials for March, April, May and June 2016. Motion carried.
EDC STAFF REPORT
Geres – Geres reported on completing another cost of living survey – the last one for the year, finishingup the internship with Youxi and updating the sites and buildings database. She also reported on updating
the industrial park brochures with new images of the Sugar Creek expansion for the Indiana Gateway
Industrial Park and updating the Midwest Industrial Park brochure with the addition of Blue Buffalo as atenant and reducing the acreage available. She reported on Jennifer North completing the audit for lastyear’s financials and that she would report to the finance committee on July 28th. Lastly, she reported onworking with the Wayne County Area Chamber of Commerce to create an invitation for community
leaders to meet with IEDC President Jim Schellinger and working with Patriot Engineering to update thesoil boring reports for Phase II of the Midwest Industrial Park.
Henry – Shaffer spoke for Henry who was unable to attend due to a planned vacation. She reported on
being at 97% of their goals towards becoming designated a Certified Work Ready Community, only

needing 21 more transitioning testers. She reported on the partnership between the Wayne County Jailand WorkOne to test inmates, which will not only help our goals, but should also help recidivism rates andallowing the inmates to gain meaningful employment upon their release.
Doty – Doty reported her staff report which included work from March – June was on page 38 and 39 ofthe board report. She reported on a few highlights including the release of the new version of the website
which includes a one minute infographic video. She stated Phil Quinn is using this video in social media
and it was also sent out to the different Mailchimp lists we keep consisting of site selectors, local
businesses, and the local community. She reported Joe and Phil produced a video to promote the Certified
Work Ready Community process and that holds the title for second most viewed post, right under Valerie’s
Top 50 Economic Developer designation. She reported on sending out a number of e-blasts, and assistingin arranging the Blue Buffalo news conference at WCTV. Lastly she reported on working with LouiseRonald, a new freelance writer for Brightside, on her first article about the Shakespeare Festival.
Shaffer – Shaffer reported on being flooded with an overwhelming about of calls from contractors looking
to bid on the Blue Buffalo construction. Their engineering firm has been very busy finalizing the designplans which will be presented to the Industrial Park Committee members, who act as the architecturalreview committee, this month. They have the date of September 22nd tentatively scheduled for agroundbreaking ceremony and we are awaiting final confirmation. She was contacted by the localmanager of New Holland farm implements, who purchased parts of lot 1 and 2 in Phase I of the Midwest
Industrial Park, and he stated they have started the application process for local and state buildingpermits. They plan to be operational by February 2017. She reported Project Acreage continues to be
actively interested in the southeast lot in Phase II of the Midwest Industrial Park. She reported ProjectNorth is dead and shared that IMPCO Automotive, who was based out of Randolph County and waslooking to expand in Richmond, has merged with another company and closed the Randolph Countylocation. She is working with the manager to help find opportunities for the displaced workers. She
reported Project Sailfish, who was looking at land south of Vandor along the Norfolk Southern rail line,
has turned their focus from Norfolk-Southern served sites to CSX served sites and are doing their due
diligence among rail providers. She reported on two new projects, Sugar Daddy and Silver. Project SugarDaddy is interested in a Hagerstown site and have planned for a site visit in the coming months. Project
Silver is an Ohio based company looking to relocate to Wayne County and has scheduled a site visit forWednesday. She reported on her planned trip to Japan for the full week of November 11th, that Mindy
Kenworth of ECIRP has taken the charge in planning the trip with the help of JASI, she has reached out tolocal companies for assistance in getting into their corporate headquarters in Japan, and that currently
she has seven meetings to set up. Five of the meetings will be with the headquarters of local companies
and two are potential recruitment meetings. She reported on having no extra time to visit Richmond’ssister city Unnan, but would connect with Unnan City officials before the visit. She reported the talent
recruitment site is taking longer than expected. A meeting is planned for the next week with RandolphCounty to hopefully finalize the MOU and make plans to get the process started. Lastly, she reported
Geres had paid Porter Advertising for the lighting upgrades to LED on the two billboards we own and theutilities should start to decrease, giving us a payback on investment in 3-5 years.
COMMITTEE REPORTS
A. Finance – Warner reported on meeting several times since the last board meeting and discussing thegeneral ledger. He reported on discussing a new wireless technology system for the conference room.
B. Executive – Witte reported much of what had been discussed in executive meetings had already beenreported on during staff reports. He reported the Vandor compliance was discussed and the grantwould be closed out. He also reported on receiving a six month extension on the Toyota lease andalso reported the office lease was up at the end of the year and staff would be completing their due
diligence in looking at other available office space.
C. Industrial Park – Warner reported meeting in March and May and discussing the topics of Project
Dove, Round Barn Road and Garr Jackson Road upgrades, Western Wayne wastewater, and industrial
park expansion.
D. Marketing and Communication Committee – Green reported that Doty had mentioned many ofthings discussed in the marketing committee in her staff report. She added that Phil Quinn waspresent to give an update and that the numbers look promising and social media is doing well.
ADJOURNMENT
Witte adjourned the meeting at 4:36 p.m.
NEXT BOARD MEETING – Monday, August 1, 2016
at EDC of Wayne County, Richmond, Indiana at 4:00 pm