Meeting Notes

Revitalize Delton Board Meeting- Feb 15, 2024 6:30pm via Zoom
 

Present: Jerry McCoy, Marsha Bassett, Jill Steele, Sarah Sandell, Don Perry, Allie Rouse, Chris Zuzga, Ashly Goldsworthy, Marie Ferris 

*Jerry Intro/Updates*

Feasibility study has been ordered, we’ve paid the $9,500 to get it started, got $1000 from rotary so need to get the remaining $5500 to get the final version of the completed study sent to us. 

Met with MEI to discuss funding and sale of land and vacant homes for development. 

• Board will get back with us after following up with David Stoll 

Met with Barry Community foundation 

• Have donation link set up on the website for donating to the tax deductible fund through BCF. 

Met with Hollander Development and they are doing a free scope study 

Set up a presentation with the school board for their meeting Monday Feb 19 

School Report 

• Working on a school report with information about enrollment, capacity, school-of-choice, etc. data. 
• Need to send to the feasibility company once completed 
• Need input and comments from board on school report when finished 

Fund Development Committee 

• Specific fundraising person 

*Meeting begins*

Election of Officers: 

President Nominations: 

Marsha Bassett – Nominated by Jerry McCoy

Aye: 9

Nay: 0

Marsha Bassett elected President of the RDCP Board Feb 15, 2024

Vice President Nominations: 

Chris Zuzga – Nominated by Jill Steele

Aye: 9 

Nay: 0 

Chris Zuzga elected Vice President of the RDCP Board Feb 15, 2024

Treasurer Nominations: 

Jerry McCoy – Volunteered himself

Aye: 9 

Nay: 0

Jerry McCoy elected Treasurer of the RDCP Board Feb 15, 2024

Secretary Nominations: 

Allie Rouse - Nominated by Marsha Bassett 

Aye: 9

Nay: 0

Allie Rouse elected Secretary of the RDCP Board Feb 15, 2024

Terms of Office Suggestion by the collective

Officers: 1 year 

Board Members: 2 years 

Term Limits: none 

Motion by Jill Steele: 2 year renewable terms for regular board members 

2nd by Chris Zuzga 

Aye: 9 

Nay: 0 

Motion Carries 

Motion by Jill Steele: 1 year terms with no limits at this point for elected officers 

2nd by Don Perry 

Aye: 9 

Nay: 0 

Motion Carries 

*Current Committee Updates on Progress* 

Education Committee Update 

• Internship Programs (Allie Rouse) 
  • HS Counselor is currently getting a work based learning program going so waiting to see that roll out before diving into an internship program 
• Cooking Class/Home Ec Class (Allie Rouse) 
  • Possible DKEF grants for kitchen updates
  • YAC- Barry Community Foundation for funding for a cooking/ home ec building
  • Hastings has a ½ time teaching position and they use a state curriculum 
  • Current kitchen classroom is used for alternative ed 
• Building Trades Class (Dewey)
  • A few people have been tracked down via a head hunter and there is a hiring committee helping look for another BT teacher 
  • Don is also helping work with the head hunting committee 

Housing Committee Update 

• Zoning (Jill Steele) 
  • What we would consider “the downtown corridor” is zoned general commercial 
    • Does not allow residential, any residential buildings are existing non-conforming 
  • Apartments above businesses in hastings (must be above 3rd floor) is called Central Buisness District (B1) in Hasitngs
  • Barry twp does not have a zoning ordinance so currently follows the county and the county does not have a general commercial designation 
    • Under the county zoning ordinance, the best way to rezone the downtown corridor to be able to include businesses as well as residential buildings would be under mixed-use. 
    • There are also special land uses available if applying for a special land use permit 
    • Between the by-right uses and special land uses, this would enable us to get the best use of our downtown area and allow the types of development people are interested in. 
  • Worth looking into amending the zoning of the corridor, we just need to determine what we want to achieve before we look into drafting the ordinance amendment. 
• Barry County Rehab Programs 
  • Need to determine the direction of the organization before digging into use of those programs. 
  • Blight Elimination Programs Available for residential (no tear down ok) and commercial (tear down ok)
• DDA (Marsha) 
  • Chatting with community members about it to see if they can get steam going again on starting it
  • Need to have a business in the area in order to get a DDA going so none of us are eligible to start it up. 

Development of Strategic Plan 

• Chris will send a starting document out and we can all give feedback at the next meeting 
• Once we develop a strategic plan, we can ratify the committee structure going forward 
• We can apply for funding and get started on projects once direction is determined 

Committee Structure 

• Will wait for the strategic plan to be finalized 

Survey Results 

• Shared Results 
• Will use to develop strategic plan 
• Will need to get more feedback 

Meeting Times Going forward 

• Months with general meetings: meet 1 hour before (5:30pm) the general meeting at the school 2nd Thursday 
• Months with no general meeting: meeting via zoom on the 2nd Thursday at 6:30pm 
• Strategic Plan Special Meeting: Chris will figure this out moving forward 

Motion to adjourn: marsha 

Support: Jill 

Meeting adjourned