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Downtown Muskegon Business Improvement District
Feb. 22, 2021
Regular meeting minutes
Muskegon City Hall
933 Terrace Muskegon, MI 49440
Virtually on City of Muskegon Facebook Live
1) Call to Order: 8:01 AM
Attendance: Bob Tarrant, Kathy Denison, John Riegler, Andy Maciejewski, Dan Castle,
Jaime Charron and Frank Peterson.
Excused Absent(s): Bruce Lindstrom
Guests: Dave Alexander, city Business Development Manager; Phyllis Watson-Laudermill,
awaiting reappointment to the BID board.
2) Introduction of new BID board members Andy Maciejewski, Dan Castle and Jaime Charron.
3) Consent agenda
a) Approval of the agenda
b) Approval of the Minutes of Oct. 26, 2020 meeting
c) Acceptance of the financial statements as of Dec. 31, 2020
Motion to approve the consent agenda: Kathy Denison
Support: Frank Peterson
All voted in favor
4) Public Comment (on an agenda item) – The board chose to leave the floor open for the
whole meeting allowing attendees to participate as they like. No participants spoke.
5) New Business
a) Dave Alexander recommended approval of the summer
landscaping agreement with the city’s Department of Public
Works. The scope did not change from 2020. The cost of
$25,250 is a 5 percent increase.
Motion to approve: Frank Peterson
Support: John Riegler
All voted in favor.
b) Dave Alexander recommended approval of the summer planter
contract for flowers and maintenance with Barry’s Flowers for
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72 planters downtown. The cost of $15,000 is an 11 percent
increase from 2020. The cost is due mainly to increased labor
costs. Bob Tarrant spoke with owner Dawn Berry and was
comfortable with the pricing for this year. All agreed that Barry’s
does an exceptional job in providing the service to the BID.
c) The Muskegon Social District will fully launch this spring and
has up front costs of about $25,000 with funds coming in on the
sale of social district cups/stickers over the course of the year.
The BID was asked to consider providing a $25,000 no-interest
loan as an initial funding option if needed by the city’s Finance
Department. The loan would be repaid from Social District
revenues. The BID fund balance was at $77,000. Bob Tarrant
pointed out this is not in the BID work plan. But others were
very supportive, John Riegler, Kathy Denison, Andy
Maciejewski, Dan Castle and Phyllis Watson-Laudermill.
Riegler said that “desperate times need desperate measures,”
as the BID should support downtown establishments as they
come back from COVID shut downs.
Motion to support: John Riegler
Support: Andy Maciejewski
All voted in favor.
d) Dave Alexander reported on a corrected BID assessment for
297 W. Clay Unit 104 that was miscalculated and corrected.
For information only.
e) Dave Alexander updated the board on an assessment appeal
from 813-820-821 Pine and 66 W. Webster. The offer will be to
settle the appeal at the same amount the Michigan Tax
Tribunal ruled back in 2018. For information only.
6) Other Business
a) The BID board decided to meet next on June 28 at 8 a.m. for an early summer update.
7) Adjournment
8:46 AM
No Objection
Minutes produced and submitted by Dave Alexander, city of Muskegon business development
manager
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