ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
OF WAYNE COUNTY, INDIANA
Board Meeting Minutes
Monday, September 10, 2018
BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT:Frame, Golden, Jackson, Leisure, Parker, Salazar, Templin, Warner,Witte, Yaeger

BOARD MEMBERS ABSENT:

Barrett, Russell

STAFF PRESENT:

Shaffer, Doty, Geres

STAFF ABSENT:

MitchellGUESTS PRESENT:

Paust, Ken – Wayne County Commissioners
Shuey, Mickey – Palladium-Item
Sowers, George – EDC Attorney

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, September 10, 2018 in the EDC board room.
OTHER BUSINESSReal Estate Transaction – The board continued the discussion from the executive session aboutpurchasing the Elder-Beerman building to gain control of the uses for the building for the downtown
development. The resolution gives Valerie authorization to enter into a real estate transaction should
our bid be received well. Motion by Witte, second by Parker to approve the resolution as presented. Bob
Warner and Sayward Salazar abstained. Motion carried.
APROVAL OF MINUTES
Frame stated the minutes from the August 6, 2018 board meeting were on pages 2-5 of the board packet.
Motion by Parker, second by Salazar to approve the August 6, 2018 minutes as presented. Motion carried.
TREASURER’S REPORT
August 2018 Financial Report
Parker provided the treasury report. He reported on being under budget $8,363.10 MTD and underbudget $70,358.12 YTD. Motion by Warner, second by Jackson to approve the August 2018 financials.
Motion carried.
COMMITTEE REPORTS
A. Executive – Frame reported the committee met on July 26 and discussed 2 compliance reports andwent back to the companies with questions. They also heard a business development and marketing
update.
B. Industrial Park – Warner reported the committee met on July 26 and heard updates on WWRSD, theBeals-Moore contact for services in MIP Phase I, Gaar Jackson Road, RP&L substation, and industrial
park expansion.
C. Marketing and Communication – Doty reported the committee met on August 16 and received asite plan and content on Home in Wayne and provided suggestions and revisions. She updated themthat the location and appointment had been set to shoot the Home in Wayne video. She updated
the committee on the downtown banner project, Hoosier Opportunity testimonial video, marketing
plans for 2018-2019, and the BSU digital campaign.
EDC STAFF REPORTS
Doty – Doty reported working on the video testimonial for Hoosier Opportunity and working on thewebsite for Home in Wayne. Next she will reconvene with the business recruiters to go over therevisions and see if they have additional suggestions. She reported working on the banner project, butthere were many broken brackets than need repaired. The project is still moving forward, but thetimeline will be revised. She reported working on the Ball State University marketing project, making
updates to the EDCWC website, and posting an article on Brightside written by Ron Oler about Dot
Foods.
Geres – Geres reported working on the Shovel Ready certification process for the last remaining lot inPhase II of the Midwest Industrial Park, creating a property flyer for the 7 acres to the east of the Warm
Glow Candle Factory Outlet on I-70, updating the website, and signing up the EDC to have a Hoosier
Opportunity booth at the Wayne County Area Chamber of Commerce Business Expo.
Shaffer – Shaffer reported on two new attraction projects arising in August: Projects Tetrad and Juniper.
She attended three BRE visits and one may result in a potential expansion project. She attended theIEDA site selector conference with Mitchell where they were able to interact with ten site selectors. She
also attended the Japanese American Society of Indiana gala to celebrate Japanese investment. Thereare 260 Japanese companies in Indiana and together they employ over 250,000 people. She attendedwith Mayor Dave Snow, local Japanese company reps, and the Unnan Sister City delegation. The
delegation was able to attend with sponsorships from the City of Richmond, EDC, and local Japanesecompanies. She reported working on workforce development initiatives including a strategy for thework ready community certification. She has met with all school districts and have talked to all of them
about participating in National Manufacturing Day on October 5th. She has the final schedule of Find aJob Friday lined up and there will be six employers visiting all five schools this semester. Lastly, she is stillworking with WWRSD. Sugar Creek has hired an engineering firm, Jacobs Engineering, to look at apreliminary engineering report for both options and to be able to compare them both apples to apples.
WWRSD board members are very appreciative of Sugar Creek hiring the firm and everyone hopes for aresolution by the end of the year.
ADJOURNMENT
Frame adjourned the meeting at 4:32 p.m.
NEXT BOARD MEETING – Monday, November 5, 2018
at EDC of Wayne County, Richmond, Indiana at 4:00 pm