10/25/2016 - Minutes MINUTES OF THE REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY OF SALT LAKE CITY
TUESDAY, OCOTBER 25, 2016
The Board of Directors of the Redevelopment Agency of Salt Lake City,
Utah, met on Tuesday, October 25, 2016 at 7 : 08 p.m. in Room 315, Council
Chambers, City County Building, 451 South State.
The following Board Directors were present:
Charlie Luke Stan Penfold Erin Mendenhall
Andrew Johnston Lisa Adams James Rogers
The following Board Director was absent:
Derek Kitchen
Jennifer Bruno, Executive Council Deputy Director; Jacqueline M.
Biskupski, Mayor; Patrick Leary, Mayor' s Chief of Staff; Margaret Plane,
City Attorney; and Kory Solorio, Assistant City Recorder; were present.
Director Adams presided at and Director Luke conducted the meeting.
AGENDA ITEMS
7:08:28 PM Councilmember Adams moved and Councilmember Penfold
seconded to recess as the City Council and convene as the Board of
Directors of the Redevelopment Agency, which motion carried, all members
present voted aye.
#1 . Accept public comment regarding the Second Amendment to the
2016-2017 Redevelopment Agency Budget, including a proposal for Housing
Funds as discussed by the Board at the July Board meeting, as well as a
review of Agency funds budgeted in previous years . View Attachments
Director Adams took a moment of personal privilege. She stated last
week (the Council acting as the Redevelopment Agency (RDA) Board) set
aside up to $21 million for affordable housing. She indicated it was
only a portion of the approximately $120 million in the RDA budget which
still left room for great projects and other priorities . She said the
Council' s decision to fund housing the work force could afford (meaning
teachers, firefighters, policemen, college graduates, etc. ) did not mean
they were withdrawing support for other redevelopment projects . Director
Adams said the Council looked forward to hearing from the public this
evening. She said the Council was in the midst of the budgeting process
and the approximately $120 million budget was not yet final .
David Brems, Soren Simonsen, Don Butterfield, and Micah Peters spoke
in opposition of the proposed Housing Funds . Comments included the impact
of Operation Diversion and the continued witnessing of crime and
sanitation problems in the Rio Grande neighborhood, the effects of taking
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$6 . 4 million from the Station Center Project, encouragement to
immediately begin construction of the festival street on 300 South,
concern with taking funding from important infrastructure projects and
public improvement projects, different incentives to develop affordable
housing and the ability to build at higher densities to serve the
communities the City wants to house, encouraging the City to communicate
with development partners in the community to talk about ways of
partnering together to help meet the housing crisis, importance/need of
affordable housing in the community, concern with the mechanism and fast
track in which the need for affordable housing was being addressed, why
this was the City' s problem and the need for help from the State and
County, the need for more economic development downtown, concern with
contracts the RDA had been working on with developers to begin the
Station Center Project, importance/concern of RDA Requests For
Proposals/Requests For Qualifications for projects and the implied level
of trunk line infrastructure and other items necessary to contract as
part of the deal,
Tim Funk, George Chapman, Bernard Hart, and Dave Iltis spoke in
favor of the proposed housing funds . Comments included excitement of
those in need of low income affordable housing in the City and the
developing commitment to homeless centers and support programs,
finalizing the TSA zoning district improvement proposal, support of a
City issued levy of $80 million which would go a long way towards
establishing a long term funded coherent city housing policy and plan,
support of an inclusionary zoning policy making sure affordable housing
is involved in every development decision, importance of affordable
housing as an economic development tool, affordable housing in a growing
economy, appreciation for considering the workforce who also need a place
to live, the lack of conversation regarding low wages, rapidly increasing
health care costs, transportation costs, increased housing costs, lack
of proper substance abuse and mental health treatments, treating the
symptoms of homeless without treating the cause, concern with funding
being pulled from projects and the suggest of funding them with impact
fees, developing a better plan to utilize the impact fees .
7 :18:13 PM Alison Emerson on behalf of the Downtown Alliance of SLC
for many year the DA has worked with the RDA board and staff to plant a
new future for the station center project the current development plans
for the project area have been through a lengthy vetting process and we
are optimistic about the future together we have developed plans for a
year round public market that will be an anchor for this neighborhood
we' re moving forward with these plans because we know that successful
development requires predictability confidence and collaboration
success in station center will only come with continued investment from
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public and provide sources we know that the RDA board believes in the
success of this district and we believe city leaders will move forward
to fulfill all the commitments that have been made the DA is also very
supportive of public investment in affordable housing this is a critical
need for our city building more affordable housing across the entire
Wasatch front will also help this neighborhood because it will reduce
the number of people who need emergency homeless services our support
for ongoing investment in station center does not preclude our advocacy
for additional investment in affordable housing continued investment
in station center infrastructure and affordable housing are both
important and certainly not mutually exclusive I look forward to working
with city leaders to address these funding priorities as we work
collaboratively to build a more dynamic and diverse downtown.
7 :28:34 PM Brian Watson president of the under privileged alliance
we create solutions from the inside I've worked with various facilities
and with the staff and clients/residents and I see solutions very simple
solutions that can be done in a very short time and then you have the
longer term solutions but there' s things that can be done in a short
time that are being over looked and one of the reasons is I've already
gone to members of the mayor' s office gave them the full run done of it
but I haven' t gotten feedback yet so now I'm looking toward the council
hopefully I give you my contact information and we can have a good
partnership so of the points that I' ll hit is a common goals we all want
to make the area better by doing that we' re going to need to see some
feedback so publishing stats what I see is people going out to these
affordable housing then they' ll come back to the road home it seems like
the output caseworkers want them out so get them out boom boom boom so
there' s no sustainable programs so they' re out and then they' re back in
in six months a year two years we need better sustainable programs to
help prevent and keep people out services need to be reevaluated I'm
looking at the host building mostly all they do is point people in
directions go here go there they don' t really do anything in the building
itself a replacement that I tried to set up with mark mccashlin LDS model
seemed really good as far as prepping people for jobs we need that in
the host building something that' s more effective there so that we can
help people transition out and stay out
Director Penfold moved and Director Rogers seconded to continue the
Redevelopment Agency second budget amendment public hearing to the
evening of November 1, 2016 at 7 : 00 p.m. , and during the Redevelopment
Agency meeting on November 15 , 2016 at 2 : 00 p.m. , which motion carried,
all members present voted aye .
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Director Adams moved and Director Mendenhall seconded to adjourn as
the Board of Directors of the Redevelopment Agency and reconvene as the
City Council, which motion carried, all directors present voted aye .
The meeting adjourned at 7 : 32 p.m.
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