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Housing and Redevelopment Minutes January 3, 2023 Page 3 chose not to make any changes because CEE was able to continue offering residents other options to fit their needs. Moved by Commissioner Ovall and seconded by Commissioner Wagner to approve Extension 2 to the CEE Loan Origination Agreement as outlined in the staff report. Motion carried 4-0. 6.3 Upcoming Updates and 2023 Annual Meeting Mr. O'Neil presented the staff report. Commissioner Ovall asked to have those bylaw changes ahead of time. Mr. O'Neil would redline any changes and provide those prior to the packet being distributed. He asked if the commission was comfortable continuing past practice with nominating positions at the time of the meeting. The consensus of the HRA was they were comfortable making nominations from the floor. The Housing and Redevelopment Authority recessed the meeting at 5:45 p.m. to go into work session. The meeting was reconvened at 5:49 p.m. 7.1 724 Main Street Mr. O'Neil began by laying out four areas of discussion for tonight's meeting: providing a status of the demolition; reviewing feedback received from past and present about the space and downtown as a whole; viewing a presentation of projects that had been implemented in other communities with a similar space size; and identifying a process to plan out the future of the site. Mr. O'Neil stated they had received one demolition quote and are expecting a few more. He felt by the February HRA meeting they should have a proposal for demolition for board consideration. He stated the demolition bids are for soil and mulch temporary fill-in as he felt gravel would be messy and didn't suggest asphalt. If the HRA was supportive he would continue this route He anticipated a demolition timeframe of April 1.The HRA also wanted the construction fencing taken down once the area was demolished, and fill added. Mr. O'Neil continued by discussing his research on past downtown proposals and resident comments. He distributed two handouts showing the downtown area and the ownership of property and asked the commission to consider if they should be focusing on improving just the meat market site or look at additional area surrounding it and consider a larger scale reconfiguration. Mr. O'Neil then outlined some of the comments he'd heard from the public joint HRA, EDA, and City Council meeting almost two years ago regarding the downtown: -Essential parking for businesses and special events — not always convenient, visible -Importance of having a public restroom to minimize the use of business restrooms -Green space -Providing other amenities -Unique character of downtown and maintaining it