by Kassadee Bradshaw | January 24, 2020 12:18 pm
FULTON – The Local Planning Committee for the Downtown Revitalization Initiative met yesterday, Jan. 23, to begin discussions on deciding which of the proposed projects to recommend the state choose to include in the $10 million grant.
Firstly, the LPC members disclosed if they had any conflicts of interest regarding one or more of the projects and recused themselves from being involved in the discussion for those projects.
Sarah Oral, part of the Cameron Engineering consultant team, revealed the results of when the public voted for their favorite projects during the most recent public input session[1].
Rather than give the specific number of votes for each project, they were ranked in five categories from highest number of votes to least votes.
The projects with the most votes were (alphabetical order):
The projects in the category with the least number of votes were (alphabetical order):
“There are two projects that are in the lowest category that you may find more important than the public did because they aren’t ‘exciting’ projects, but they’re procedural,” Oral said.
She said the zoning changes would help support future development in the area and although the downtown marketing is not a tangible project, it could help bring more people in to the city.
Oral said there are about two dozen factors to consider when deciding which projects to recommend, one of those being public input. She said even in a project is not in the category with the most votes does not mean it is not deemed worthy of funding.
“How you weigh it is up to you and your work group,” Oral said.
The four work groups, which include two groups to evaluate the private projects, one group for non-profit projects and one for municipal projects, gave an update on their evaluations of the projects assigned to their groups.
Group one’s projects include:
Linda Eagan said her group was impressed with the quality of the proposed projects. She said the group needs more information on four projects before making a recommendation for them, they are ready to recommend five projects right now, and there are two projects they think have other funding sources that would be a better fit.
Group two’s projects include:
David Turner said his group did not have a chance to discuss Building 30. They are ready to recommend five projects now, and need more information for the rest besides one or two to make a decision.
Group three’s projects include:
Marie Mankiewicz said her group is waiting for questions to be answered. They did find a challenge because the projects asked for more than 20% funding.
Group four’s projects include:
Nancy Fox said there are certain projects that will disappoint the public if not completed, and some projects that are dependent on each other.
Following the group updates, the LPC members discussed guiding projects toward other grants and funding opportunities they may not be aware of should they not be chosen for DRI funding.
Later in the meeting Oral gave an overview of the remainder of the DRI process, including the timeline.
This included that the LPC would need to schedule a time to meet as a whole to decide on a final slate of projects to be voted on during the next LPC meeting Feb. 20 and then present that slate to the public on Mar. 5.
Members of the LPC inquired if the DRI timeline could be extended by a month, but was told the contract with Cameron Engineering ends in March.
As the meeting ended, the LPC agreed to decide on a revised timeline via survey.
The updated meeting times will be added here when they are released.
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