2026-10-22 - Land Reuse and Preservation Agency Regular Meeting
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- Property updates from the agency's attorney: deeds for the donated estate properties need a minor correction because a change in law requires the grantee's signature to accept a deed, and one transfer in a tax-sale purchaser's name still needs confirming. Of the other two donor properties, the owner of 545 Parkway said they would follow up, and the owner of 341 Ring has not responded. Members discussed skipping the pre-closing contact step but kept the current process. See Land Reuse Agency Infill Housing and Property Inventory.
- August minutes were approved by voice vote; no September minutes were on the list.
- A review of an expression of interest was moved to executive session.
- Committee priorities: property management will focus on the recently acquired property and leasing 430 Spruce. For the underutilized properties committee, members proposed inventorying all city-owned property, not only the agency's, separating small side lots from buildable lots, and picking about 10 for infill, including small-house plans offered to developers. A housing grant writer explained that affordable-housing grants favor projects under 50% of area median income but lack rental subsidies, and suggested moderate-income townhomes for first-time buyers. The resource development committee will look at marketing properties, communications, the Housing Development Fund, and models such as community land trusts.
- Staff updates: the pedestrian bridge has been delivered and crews are installing it and doing groundwork; the green space design is substantially complete. The city has right of entry through eminent domain on the properties to come down, and one property under contract with the agency is being pursued separately. Construction is expected in spring after bidding; the date is not fixed. See Pennsylvania Avenue Demolitions and Green Space.
- Demolition of three properties on Pennsylvania Avenue has been awarded; a memorandum of agreement with the State Historic Preservation Office is being finalized, with tentative completion in early December.
- The agency then went into executive session to discuss property acquisition, with no further public discussion.
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00:00I think he's reaching back out to them
00:01to ask them to make contact.
00:05Reviewed the the deeds for the birthday
00:07estate and there I think there's a a
00:09minor change needed on those based on a
00:11a change in law requiring signature of
00:13uh
00:14of the recipient, the grantee, to
00:17accept the deed. Um and there's I I want
00:20to ask about the
00:22dates of the the effective date is it is
00:24October of last year
00:26and then just need to to confirm the
00:28transfer of one of the properties that's
00:30in the name of a
00:31tax sale purchaser and I don't see the
00:34the deed of record but just need to
00:36confirm that. So, we should be getting
00:37that done
00:38presently.
00:39>> Okay. And then we're just waiting on
00:41them what for the other two?
00:43>> Uh the so the the agency's after action
00:46letter is sent out to the potential
00:49donors and tells them to
00:51contact
00:52our firm to begin the process of
00:55examining title and getting a deed
00:57transferred. They They have not done
00:59that so we haven't proceeded.
01:02>> [clears throat]
01:02>> Did get a response from 545 Rockaway
01:05that he would be following up. Um
01:07>> Okay.
01:07>> Did not hear Excuse me. Did not hear
01:09anything from 341 right.
01:15>> Okay.
01:17>> [snorts]
01:17>> Is there any way to make that easier so
01:19they don't have to do that step or is
01:20that just
01:21people are not
01:23>> I we can uh
01:25Yes, we can skip that step and just go
01:27ahead and then try to schedule a
01:29closing.
01:29>> It seems like we're often getting caught
01:31on these things where maybe if we could
01:33streamline a little bit, make them do
01:35less.
01:37>> It's fine with me.
01:38You could
01:39>> [snorts]
01:39>> You could end up having the same problem
01:41when you try to schedule the closing and
01:42then you just record the deed but
01:45>> Well, we don't I mean I guess we don't
01:47want you to do all the title work and
01:48then they don't show. So, if they can't
01:50call you maybe
01:52Okay. We'll just keep it like it is.
01:56>> We can We can make them
01:57>> We can discuss how we can
02:00grease the rails.
02:01>> Okay. All right.
02:04>> That's all I have.
02:05>> Okay.
02:06I think we have meetings from or sorry,
02:09meeting minutes from August to approve.
02:12Didn't have any Septembers. Did
02:14everybody have a chance to review and
02:16are there any
02:18edits?
02:20>> I move to approve.
02:21>> Second.
02:23>> All those in favor?
02:24>> Aye.
02:24>> Aye.
02:25Any opposed? All right.
02:28So, we mistakenly included the review of
02:30the EOI on on new business here. We're
02:32going to move that to the executive
02:34executive session
02:36and skip it for now.
02:38But we did want to talk today about
02:39priorities and objectives for the
02:41committees.
02:43A while ago we had a
02:45strategy session and we came up with a
02:47bunch of to-do list items. I know that
02:50we have not seen those lists for a
02:51while, but it'd probably be good to look
02:53back at them. I think we accomplished a
02:55lot of the stuff that was on there.
02:58But we were thinking it would be good to
02:59just discuss as a group what we want to
03:01put on the agendas for these committees
03:04so that they have
03:05something to move forward with.
03:08So, property management, I feel like
03:13we haven't been having trouble because
03:14we kind of have things that we're
03:16working on with that. I mean, we're
03:17working on this property we just
03:18acquired. We're working on the leasing
03:20of 430 Spruce.
03:22Anything else that we want to throw onto
03:24the agenda for that one?
03:32>> [snorts and clears throat]
03:35>> All right.
03:36I think that one makes sense and it's
03:38kind of self-explanatory. Underutilized
03:40properties, it could go a lot of
03:41different ways. I know that you've had
03:43some ideas in the past about what could
03:44happen on that one.
03:46>> I mean, underutilized has a lot of
03:48different meanings. You could take it
03:50really far if you wanted, but
03:51even looking at vacant properties
03:53downtown and putting together some type
03:54of
03:55inventory for that or um
03:58properties along the rail trail we're
03:59not doing anything with that the city
04:00may own or um
04:03I don't know uh but the lots that we
04:05have that we've acquired over time,
04:08maybe we could put together and we
04:09talked about this briefly some plans for
04:12smaller homes
04:13that we could then offer to developers
04:16to build.
04:17There's a lot of different things we can
04:18do in this committee.
04:19>> Um I think we could get started
04:21with sort of everything that we own now
04:24and control.
04:25And we go through that and say, "Let's
04:27Let's pick the top 10
04:29that we're interested in."
04:30>> Well, I think that there are these
04:32resolutions in here about what each
04:34committee does and there's a distinction
04:36between underutilized and property
04:38management. So, property management is
04:40like dealing with everything we already
04:42own.
04:42>> Okay.
04:43>> And I think that underutilized,
04:45if I can find it
04:46>> I mean what city owns that's not been
04:48deeded to us.
04:49So, things that might have been
04:51So, so the odd lots
04:55the lots that are
04:56>> that the city
04:56>> that that we're sitting there and we
04:59say, "Well, there's a lot that we we
05:00could do something on. It's in a vital
05:02neighborhood." And and basically we had
05:04all those
05:06we could say all those odd corner little
05:08lots, maybe we start to contact the the
05:12side yard people and "Would you be
05:14interested in this?" Then the second
05:16piece would be get everything that would
05:19be buildable or
05:21you know, and say, "What are the top
05:2310?"
05:24And is there something we can do with
05:25the top 10? Sort of the small houses and
05:27stuff like that. And then decide if we
05:29want to do that. I mean, I think that
05:31that's at least worth for us to come
05:33together and meet and clear some of that
05:35out. At least have something we can
05:37tangibly work on.
05:38>> Mhm.
05:40Yeah.
05:41>> Especially for infill development. I
05:42don't remember which agency talked to um
05:45who
05:46mentioned that they would sell lots or
05:48grant lots to developers for lower price
05:51or even almost cost-free if they built a
05:55house and then sold it under a certain
05:57value. And that could be part of the
05:59affordable housing that is our mission
06:01if we wanted to do something like that.
06:03But it'd be
06:03>> [cough]
06:03>> a lot easier if we already have the
06:05plans in place for these lots that
06:07you're going to have to get 1,000
06:08variances for it to build on because
06:10they're too small.
06:11Uh, it's something that we could offer.
06:15>> All right. So, it sounds like looking at
06:17the universe of city-owned properties,
06:21not just the ones that are owned by the
06:22Land Reutilization Agency, correct?
06:24>> Right.
06:24>> Right.
06:25>> Okay.
06:26And I think Marvin has probably the
06:28ability to map that if he hasn't done
06:30that already.
06:32But maybe you could check and see if if
06:34that's a layer. I think he already had
06:35that layer.
06:36>> I do. I do.
06:37>> You do?
06:37>> And I think things that are under
06:40make it a 0.15, 0.1, that's clearly a
06:43side lot issue. Then then we can say,
06:46"Okay, get that list." And then we can
06:48start working through that. And then
06:50look at the ones that are at least a
06:52regular city lot and what those might be
06:54and have those two two poles that we can
06:57at least look at and and pick the best
07:00ones out of this
07:02start the disposition of all the others.
07:04>> Mhm.
07:05I mean, anything where we've had a house
07:07demoed, you can build a house back.
07:09>> Right.
07:09>> So, those are easy. And we've actually
07:12accumulated quite a few of those that
07:13are in
07:15pretty good locations, some of them.
07:16That someone might be interested in.
07:17>> Mhm.
07:18>> So, those we could either try to sell
07:19or, you know,
07:21talk to Habitat for Humanity or anybody
07:23else who wants to come in, a private
07:24developer, private builder uh, who wants
07:26to build under a certain level
07:29price point.
07:30>> [clears throat]
07:30>> Teresa, you guys aren't doing any
07:31building anymore, are you?
07:33>> So, I work a lot with Habitat and well
07:35and I
07:36look at a lot of development for that
07:39affordable housing.
07:40And typically in order to get the most
07:42points for grants, it has to be like
07:44under 50% of the AMI. Which is great in
07:47theory, the problem is that there's no
07:49financial assistance for subsidies to
07:51get the Like you can build the housing
07:53for affordable, but you can't fill the
07:55housing with the families because
07:57there's no assistance available right
07:59now to subsidize rent. Like there's no
08:01vouchers, place makes voucher like
08:04We can build a low-income house, but
08:07your low-income person probably makes
08:09less than $30,000
08:12a year. I think like over 50% of
08:14Morgantown does. So, that means their
08:16max affordability is like $750 a month
08:20high end. So, unless there's a subsidy,
08:23you can't really get a developer to come
08:24in and build the housing and create a
08:26pro forma where they're going to make
08:28enough income for it to be profitable
08:31right now.
08:32There's just no There's The funding's
08:35not there. Like there's not extra
08:36vouchers. There's not
08:39USDA is not within the city limits of
08:40Morgantown. There's a couple of HUD
08:42programs, but you've seen what HUD
08:44funding is doing right now. So, we can
08:46talk about building affordable housing
08:47all day. I love it. In fact, your tiny
08:49home, if we want to do a community of
08:51tiny homes, social security, I've had a
08:53dream about that one before.
08:56Uh but on the scale that you're looking
08:58at, it's hard to put
09:00You can get someone that can get a
09:01grant. If it's donated land or super
09:04low-cost land, they get extra points.
09:07Um they can get subsidies on top of
09:09subsidies to build low-income housing
09:10tax credits, that type of thing. But at
09:12the end of the day,
09:15there's not assistance available to
09:17permanently support the people once you
09:18put them in.
09:20And they have to have a subsidy cuz they
09:22can't afford how much the property
09:25developer would have to charge to be
09:26able to offset the cost of building.
09:29>> Particularly in this interest rate
09:31environment.
09:31>> Right. Just at this point and at
09:33construction costs, too. I'm sure you
09:34guys know way more than I do. But that's
09:36what I really I get it. I wish that we
09:39if we need deep pockets of subsidies so
09:43that it can And when I say subsidy, just
09:46that difference between how much a
09:47market rate rental is that they would
09:48have to charge to be profitable
09:50profitable versus what the person can
09:51afford to pay. 30% of their income for
09:54rent plus utilities is typically the
09:56most
09:58that HUD is going to say is affordable
10:00housing for someone. And when you look
10:01at the average so many people making
10:0430,000 in this area,
10:06it's just not there.
10:08But, on the flip side of that, and this
10:10is where I was talking to you a little
10:11bit about it, the workforce, middle
10:13income, you're looking at So, you have
10:15to make We use everything on an area
10:17median income basis. So, 100% area
10:20median income is the average income. And
10:22for a family size of four in Morgantown,
10:24that's actually like $103,000.
10:26It's way higher than you think. It's
10:28just there's no that there's a big gap
10:29in the middle. Um and so, there's not a
10:32lot of opportunities for those families
10:34that make say 60 to 80%. Habitat for
10:38Humanity is like 50 to 60%. So, they're
10:41a very narrow margin of eligible
10:43criteria. And they only build I think
10:46they've done
10:47two houses every two to three years in
10:50Morgantown cuz they're flip-flopping
10:51between here and Fairmont cuz Fairmont's
10:53getting the properties donated and
10:55they're getting more points there.
10:57Um and they are amazing among their
11:00board now. So, I'm trying to help them
11:01with expand that part of it. But, I
11:04think there is something with if we
11:06could build maybe like townhomes for
11:09first-time homebuyers that are making
11:12$80,000 a year and build a townhome
11:15that's maybe $300,000,
11:17that's there's nothing there for those
11:19price those families. And they've proven
11:22that if you can create housing for that
11:24higher income, not super high, but like
11:26moderate, medium, it's going to free up
11:29more housing for low-to-moderate as
11:31well, that should cause a
11:34funnel effect or something, some fancy
11:36word that sounds professional.
11:39But
11:40>> So, it sounds like you could still do
11:42infill development. You're just saying
11:44let's adjust like how we think of what
11:46the end goal
11:47>> Right. Well, and a developer, if they I
11:49mean, Huntington has an amazing project
11:51where they converted this huge thing
11:53into a senior housing and they got
11:55funding from West from the State Housing
11:56Finance Agency. So, it happens. It's
11:59just a lot harder to make it happen up
12:01here than down in the South it feels
12:03like because they
12:05grant-wise tend to show more need as a
12:07state.
12:12Just in my personal opinion, thank you.
12:16>> We appreciate you sharing that. That's
12:17why we asked you to come.
12:18>> [laughter]
12:19>> None of us know all that stuff.
12:23>> But I've written a lot of grants and
12:24I've gone to a lot of like developers
12:26and met with the directors who are doing
12:27development in other states and they
12:29have
12:30programs that we don't have. Now, if the
12:32city wants to create some programs
12:35to subsidize long-term,
12:38there could be potential there cuz a lot
12:39of times that is where other states are
12:41getting funding from their county and
12:43from their city and they're able to do
12:45affordable housing. They have down
12:47payment assistance programs and all
12:48kinds of really great programs and we we
12:50don't. Our state just really does not.
12:55And that's why we're trying to appeal to
12:56Charleston too. I've got a whole thing
12:58with other agencies. I've got plans and
12:59dreams and goals.
13:02>> [snorts]
13:02>> Thank you, Teresa.
13:04>> I'll stop now. You don't need to make me
13:05stop talking.
13:07>> No, it's informative.
13:09>> Yeah, it is helpful, but it still sounds
13:11like your plan of sorting and looking
13:13for infill developers is still good.
13:15It's just like
13:15>> I mean, it's not necessarily for rent
13:17either. It would be to sell
13:19under a certain price point, so
13:20>> And and I think it's too case specific.
13:22Like right you got to Teresa's talking
13:25about we got all of these different
13:28alternatives that
13:30and we can look at
13:32depending on the property.
13:34>> Mixed use has been very successful in a
13:36lot of the other places, too. Doing a
13:38commercial residential combo with market
13:40rate land low income.
13:42We'll do X amount under 50% AMI, but you
13:45can still and you integrate the
13:47communities and it's supposed to be
13:48better just
13:51revitalization-wise.
13:52>> And the commercial helps the
13:53performance.
13:54>> Right. That's because they're able to
13:55charge for the commercial it offsets the
13:57>> cost of it.
13:58>> Yeah.
14:03>> That would require a much larger
14:04footprint.
14:05>> Future dreams and goals. I'm telling
14:07you, I'm thinking way long term.
14:08>> And the total zoning overhaul as well,
14:10so
14:10>> That's you know, one day at a time.
14:12>> We're working on
14:13>> Rookie's got nothing to do, right?
14:15>> [laughter]
14:16>> I mean, the zoning overhaul is happening
14:18>> you're working on it, so yeah.
14:20>> [clears throat]
14:21>> Okay.
14:23I mean, that sounds like a good start to
14:25me for underutilized. I feel like that
14:26would take you a minute to get through
14:28all that.
14:29So
14:29>> Yeah, Seth, if you if you can provide I
14:32mean, we can work together before the
14:34meeting, get the documents out to folks,
14:36and we can we can accomplish something
14:38in an hour.
14:41>> All right. So, now let's talk a little
14:42bit about the resource
14:45development committee.
14:48Yes, that's what it's called.
14:50Um
14:52the people that are running that one
14:53aren't here, but
14:56I think we want to talk a little bit
14:58about how we market the properties that
14:59come to us.
15:01Um we haven't really ever had to do that
15:03yet, but I think we're going to. It'd be
15:05nice to have a plan in place for that.
15:08Um
15:09I know Brad has like gotten on to the
15:12communications a little bit and he's
15:14been proactive on that front, but it'd
15:15be nice to ask him to that meeting and
15:18touch base on a regular basis on the
15:20comms and too, I think.
15:23Seeing more things come out was would be
15:25good. What other ideas do you guys have?
15:34Are you trying to hold your idea in? You
15:36can do it sometime.
15:40>> I haven't really thought about this one.
15:41>> [cough and clears throat]
15:54>> Well, that one I may be piggybacking on
15:56what Teresa said, is having a
15:58conversation with the Housing
16:00Development Fund.
16:02About I mean, they they exist. They
16:05They have almost half a billion dollars
16:08in reserves. I mean, they have the
16:10ability to start a program in a couple
16:13of places, at least a pilot,
16:16to to see what can we do. I mean,
16:18because in this interesting environment,
16:21if we can get repayment, not worried
16:22about having to make the interest like a
16:24bank does, you can help families. You
16:27really can, you know, that's one of the
16:28the bigger costs. But, it may be that,
16:31you know, we have some conversations
16:33about what's possible, or there's some
16:34pilot programs they might consider
16:37within the city limits of Morgantown,
16:39making sure that we know the houses are
16:41going to the right income brackets and
16:43that kind of stuff. It's at least worth
16:44a conversation.
16:46>> Yeah, I think so.
16:49>> Yeah, no doubt. I mean, I
16:51you know, just
16:52spitballing because I haven't thought
16:54about this one much, but um
16:57uh
16:58if you force me to,
17:00um
17:02I think I I mean, I think what are like,
17:04what are the needs and what's
17:06what's what's being effective in other
17:08communities? What to your point, what
17:11like Dave said, I mean, what what are
17:12other cities and counties in other
17:14places doing?
17:17I I having an inventory of those things,
17:19a list of those things, and then what
17:22are the what are the organizations and
17:24resources that we have available here,
17:26where are the gaps?
17:28I mean, I think that just starting there
17:30would be a very useful exercise.
17:32>> Mhm.
17:34>> And I can make the the APA, the American
17:36Planning Association, teamed up with the
17:38National League of Cities recently to do
17:40a housing study, and they came up with
17:41this accelerator program where they
17:43looked at cities large, small across the
17:45board and came up here like a five seven
17:47things that are doing across the board.
17:49We can share that and start there to
17:50your point. That'd be a good way to
17:52>> Yeah, that sounds great.
17:56Community land trusts, shared
17:58appreciation models. There's some pretty
18:00cool stuff out there.
18:01>> Yeah, that's definitely been tossed
18:02around a lot lately. Was Council
18:04bringing that up?
18:05>> Mhm.
18:07>> What What are you guys thinking about
18:09that? I mean, just they
18:10>> I mean, that we'd love to do.
18:13We'd love to do it. It's just, you know,
18:15where do you
18:16where where do we finding finding the
18:18right opportunity? And I mean,
18:21if we look at what what what tools do we
18:23have in the toolbox, and then, you know,
18:26looking at each individual property or
18:28opportunity, well, what's what's
18:30appropriate? What's the fit?
18:33So,
18:35you know,
18:36we we we've talked about it in the
18:38context of kind of the housing study
18:41that we
18:42the development services presented
18:45earlier
18:47this year or late last year,
18:50but but anyway, presented recently, and
18:53that's, you know, one of the one of the
18:56opportunities that we I think there'd be
18:58a lot of interest in us pursuing.
19:00>> Mhm.
19:01So, could you maybe in that committee
19:04meeting give us a rundown of what that
19:06looks like so I think
19:08I need a little education on that.
19:09>> Sure. And and if you haven't seen the
19:12the the housing and they Land Reuse
19:15hasn't seen the housing we can assess
19:18that you all you know put together Ricky
19:20that might be good to share with
19:22everyone.
19:28>> Any other ideas for that one?
19:33I also just want to say since we're in a
19:35public meeting can Seth can you briefly
19:37go through the updates that you provided
19:39in writing form on the green space and
19:42the bridge?
19:46>> Uh just to provide updates. If you go to
19:49page seven in your packet
19:52just a summary of updates of some of the
19:53reports and things that we've kind of
19:55been gathering for this week.
19:57Since Jamie was unable to be here Damian
19:58was also unable to be here this
20:00afternoon.
20:01Got a quick note from Jamie that the
20:03pedestrian bridge has been delivered in
20:05Lower Greenmount and that crews remain
20:06working on installation and necessary
20:08groundwork for that project. And that
20:10the green space design has been
20:12substantially completed. I did confirm
20:14that there is not an updated copy I
20:16don't believe but there is one
20:17forthcoming and we'll make sure that you
20:18have it when it's finalized.
20:20>> Okay, cool.
20:22>> And then regarding the Lower Greenmount
20:24space and finalization of some ownership
20:25items need to be resolved before that
20:27can be sent out to bid and constructed.
20:29That's what Jamie sent me on that.
20:31>> Before you continue Ryan what's the
20:33status of the title issues on those? Are
20:35you doing
20:36>> On which one sorry?
20:37>> On the properties that need to come down
20:40for the green space.
20:44>> Um
20:45there are no there are no title issues
20:47in those.
20:48>> Sorry. Um but you were doing like
20:49eminent domain or something?
20:52>> Yeah the
20:53so but the city has acquired right of
20:55entry for this land and property through
20:56eminent domain.
20:58Rush property has been acquired.
20:59>> Okay.
21:00>> So the city has let's let's call it the
21:02feasible title for the selling property
21:05but it's using a method by which it's
21:08permitted now to enter the property and
21:09demolish.
21:10Like once it does that, it has to go
21:13through with the purchase at whatever
21:15the value is that's assigned by the
21:16commissioners.
21:17>> Okay.
21:18So, it's all in process to happen.
21:21>> Oh, yeah. The The city's clear to move
21:23forward and has been for some time.
21:25>> Okay. So, do you know the timing of the
21:27green space? Like when the construction
21:28will happen?
21:30>> I do not.
21:31>> What does that depend on?
21:34>> Getting the land getting involved.
21:36I should say there's There's one of the
21:38properties that is was not targeted for
21:42for that part of the for the CDBG
21:43project because it was at the time under
21:45contract with the land use agency that
21:47we are
21:48are still
21:49working on acquiring.
21:51I mean I mean
21:52It's been authorized by city council,
21:54but
21:55we're not getting that file.
21:57It was something we were looking at
21:58using those
22:00those upper
22:01floors, [cough and clears throat]
22:02but due to
22:04timing and uh
22:06some sub award constraints
22:08and the
22:10the limitation of the agency in
22:13not having eminent domain powers as the
22:14city does have them that
22:17that's why those ARPA funds are shifted
22:20to demolition.
22:22Just [snorts] trying to uh
22:24acquire that property through eminent
22:25domain with other funds.
22:27>> Okay. But basically that's the hold up
22:29on the green spaces. We need to get that
22:31taken care of before the green space
22:32starts construction.
22:34>> Before it starts construction, yes. But
22:36that I mean the construction is not
22:38going to start anyway until next spring.
22:43>> Okay. Thanks. That's what I was trying
22:44to get to.
22:46Everyone in the neighborhood wants to
22:47know, so.
22:48>> Mhm.
22:49Yeah. That that property acquisition is
22:51not delaying the construction timeline,
22:53I don't think.
22:54>> Okay. It's already set for the spring.
22:57>> That's my understanding.
22:58>> Like this coming spring or next spring?
23:01>> [clears throat]
23:03>> This spring.
23:04>> It's spring.
23:05>> It's spring. Kind of TBD.
23:05>> I mean, I I I don't want to put you on
23:07the spot, but also why is this question
23:08so hard? Like, it should be a fairly
23:11easy question.
23:13We We have the money. We have the plan.
23:15What Why don't we know when it's
23:16starting construction?
23:18>> Well, I mean, I mean, it has to be bid
23:20it out, too. I mean, it hasn't been bid
23:21out, so
23:27It has to be designed and bid. I think
23:29the plan is
23:30>> to expend those funds in the spring.
23:33>> Okay. All right. Thanks.
23:36All right. I think we have already
23:37covered the other stuff
23:39on this list. Did you have anything
23:41else?
23:41>> Uh Ricky was going to touch on the
23:42demolitions briefly, but I do think we
23:44covered the property updates for 341
23:46Ring, 545 Parkway. Uh just to reiterate,
23:49I did hear back from Mr. Harris um
23:52last Friday regarding 545 Parkway. Said
23:54that he would reach out and follow up
23:56with Ryan. I
23:58That was last Friday, so I can send him
23:59a just kind of ping him again before the
24:01day before I leave here
24:03to say, "Hey, if you haven't done that
24:04yet, please follow up."
24:06>> Okay. Thanks.
24:07>> The other I have not had any success
24:08contacting the owner of 341 Ring.
24:15>> Um in terms of the demolitions, the
24:17contract's been awarded um to get the
24:19three properties on Pennsylvania Avenue
24:21demolished, and we're finalizing some of
24:23the MOA requirements that we have with
24:25SHPO to
24:27be compliant with our agreement to
24:29demolish those structures. So, it's
24:31moving forward. Uh tentative completion
24:33would be the beginning of December for
24:35the demolition.
24:36>> [cough and clears throat]
24:37>> Okay. Cool.
24:39Anyone have any more questions on that
24:42update section?
24:45All right.
24:51I think that is all for the regular
24:53session.
24:55So, now I move that we go into executive
24:57session to discuss acquisition of
24:59property and related things under the
25:02sunrise, something that Tim used to
25:04recite.
25:05Um, do we have a second?
25:08>> Second.
25:09>> All right, we will not be coming out for
25:11further discussion after that session.
25:13So