Minutes

of the

Regular Meeting Of

DETROIT LAKES DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY

Tuesday, January 15^th, 2008

4:30 PM

City Administration Building

 Conference Room

MEMBERS PRESENT:         Jim Anderson, Tom Klyve, Mary Beth Gilsdorf,

                                            Mark Hagen and Greg Hildenbrand                                    

MEMBERS ABSENT:            Dennis Winskowski, Matt Brenk

OTHERS PRESENT:             Larry Remmen, Community Development Director,

                                            Bob Louiseau, Nancy Wichmann

I.        Call To Order:

          Chairman Jim Anderson called the meeting of the Detroit Lakes Development Authority to order at 4:30 PM in the Conference Room of the City Administration Building, 1025 Roosevelt Avenue on Tuesday, January 15th, 2008.  All members of the Authority have been duly notified of the meeting and the business to be transacted.

II.       Minutes:

          A motion was made by Commissioner Tom Klyve  seconded by Commissioner Mary Beth Gilsdorf and carried unanimously to approve the minutes of the special meeting held December 13, 2007 as corrected to note Chairman Jim Anderson as absent and approval of the regular minutes of the December 18^th, 2008 meeting as presented.

III.      Old Business

A.       Update on land acquisition in the Gateway District

          Larry Remmen reported the closing of the Lakes Laundry property was on January 4^th.  The committee, Commissioner Hagen and Commissioner Klyve,  have been working hard on negotiations with the remaining businesses.  Environmental testing of the laundry property was done and approved.  The Development Authority will wait for the State of Minnesota to tie up their end of the negotiations for the remaining property before they can move forward.

V.      New Business

A.       Consideration to establishing focus groups for the Conference Center Study

          Chris Brewer, consultant from the Chicago based ERA who is conducting the Conference Center Study,  will be in Detroit Lakes the end of January the same time as RDG people .   The Authority reviewed a preliminary list of  focus group members for the Conference Center Study.   They are as follows:

Conference Center Study Focus Group Chris Brewer (Consultant)

Mayor Larry Buboltz, Cleone Stewart, Ron Paskey, Chet Collins, Scott Mehlhaff

Don Schattschneider, Kimberly Schoenborn, Ron Zeman, Dave Hochalter, Bruce Imholte

Cyndi Anderson, Mark Hagen, Dan Biermeier, Beth Priday, Amy Stearns

After discussion, the Authority added the additional members:

Aaron Burnside, Beth Schupp, Scott Mehlhaff, Gary and Pat Doele, Cole Hanson, Jeff Stowman, Jeff Grabow, Deb and Mitch Wimmer,

A motion was made by Commissioner Mark Hagen, seconded by Commissioner Greg Hildenbrand and carried unanimously to invite community members as presented in addition to people that show an interest in serving on the committee.

B.      Other

VI.      Adjournment

          There being no further business to bring before the Board, the meeting was adjourned.                                                                                                                                

                                                                   Signed                                                                                                                                       

                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Larry Remmen                                                                                                                           Community Development Director