Evansville Local Public Improvement Bond Bank Meeting - July 15, 2026
Evansville Local Public Improvement Bond Bank Meeting - July 15, 2026
The Evansville Local Public Improvement Bond Bank met on July 15, 2026, at 4:30 PM UTC. The board reviewed financial reports, approved a resolution increasing funding for the Crawford Door redevelopment project, and handled routine business. All votes were unanimous.
Consent Calendar
- Minutes of previous meeting: Approved unanimously.
Discussion Items
- Executive Director Remarks / Financial Report: Mr. Gunter reported that cash and investments decreased by approximately $1.9 million due to a loan to Central Dispatch. Loans receivable increased correspondingly. The Police Department made a $621,000 payment on auto loans. Interest income is down slightly, but loan interest rates increased from 1.5% to 2.5%. The board discussed the status of investments, including $3 million in CDs nearing maturity, and confirmed that funds are properly insured. The financial report was approved with acknowledgement that the Crane Credit CD had been rolled over.
- New Business – Resolution 2026-08 (Crawford Door Project): Kobe Jackson from the Department of Metropolitan Development (DMD) presented an updated request for the Crawford Door redevelopment at 1701 North Heidelbach. The project is a 134-unit multifamily tax credit development in partnership with the Evansville Public Library (EVPL) and includes studio, one-, two-, and three-bedroom units. The original request of $1.15 million from the Bond Bank is increased to $1.28 million (a $130,000 increase) due to “Build America Buy America” (BABA) requirements on federal HOME funds. The increase will be used to reduce federal funding to avoid BABA triggers. The loan will be repaid through the Jacobsville TIF. The amortization schedule was revised: annual principal and interest payments of $340,263 begin August 1, 2027, rather than interest-only payments. The board confirmed the TIF has sufficient capacity. The resolution was approved unanimously.
- Voucher Register Approval: An invoice from Harding Shamanski for $1,050 related to the audit was approved and the register signed.
Key Outcomes
- Minutes of previous meeting: Approved.
- Financial report: Approved with the note that the Crane Credit CD was rolled over.
- Resolution 2026-08: Approved unanimously. The resolution authorizes a $1.28 million loan to DMD (via the Bond Bank) for the Crawford Door project, repaid through the Jacobsville TIF with principal and interest payments starting August 1, 2027.
- Voucher register: Approved for $1,050.
- Next meeting: Scheduled for August 19, 2026, in Room 307 at the Civic Center.
Meeting Transcript
Good morning and welcome to the July fifteenth meeting of the Evansville Local Public Improvement Bond Bank. Um we are in session. Uh can we confirm compliance with open door law? Yes. We uh published the notice on Granicus, and we have two posted to bill uh to bulletin boards on the first floor and the third floor of the Pacific Center. Perfect, thank you, Mr. Gunter. Uh we do have three members present, so we do have a quorum. First up is the consideration of the meetings of the previous uh minute min I'm sorry, the minutes of the previous meeting which were emailed to you earlier this week. Does anyone have any um corrections or concerns? May we have a motion to accept these minutes? Still moved. Thank you. Second. With a motion and a second. All in favor. Aye. Aye. Those are accepted. All right. Executive director remarks, Mr. Gunter. Thank you. Fantastic. Uh can we run through the financials, please? Sure, good morning. Um cash and investments, as you notice, uh have gone down about a million nine, and that's nothing more than we at the last meeting loaned out a million nine to Central Desk dispatch. Um accordingly, uh loans receivable from qualified entities has gone up that much. Um I can tell you that the police department made their six hundred and twenty-one thousand dollar payment on their uh their auto loans. Uh yesterday we received it and it's going to the bank today. Uh I billed that back in June, and it's just take some time for them to turn around. Uh I've got some more billing for the last of the energy service energy systems contracts. Uh those are due August first, and so I'll get those out and we'll get those hopefully collected and paid off, and we won't we'll just have like four large uh bands outstanding. Um you can take a look at the um P and L our interest of course is a little bit down compared to last year. Um annualized from investments, it's definitely gonna go down because we have less money in investments and our interest rates are a little bit lower. Um our interest from our our loans is going to go up because increased the rate from one and a half to two and a half percent. Um seems like a good thing for the city to get a a low interest rate on on what they borrow. Umside of that, a little has changed. I have details of uh the loans and investments, interest receivable and so forth, back few pages. Um very steady. Question regarding um insurance and I federally insured. The funds that are within the who's your fund, that's already insured by the state, is that correct? Yes, yes. So we have one point five plus million dollars. Who's the fund? In the m in a money market. And then uh with Trust Indiana 900,000. That's correct. So those are now and then our total um at Crane is approaching is three and a half million. Do we have any concerns there?
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