Date: August 4, 2025 Time: Meeting called to order at approximately 2:24 PM.
Board members present: Mayor (unnamed, chair), Councilor Pro Tem Hogan (representing Council President Hudson), and Commissioner Canazaro. Staff present: Meg (agency staff) and Michelle Spansky (Deputy Commissioner of Neighborhood Development). The meeting approved prior minutes, adopted two resolutions, and authorized a subcontractor arrangement.
All right. I'm gonna go ahead and call the regular meeting of the Syracuse Urban Renewal Agency to order. I will note that uh Councilor Pro Tem Hogan is uh is in attendance uh on behalf of Council President Hudson. So thank you, counselor, for joining, uh as well as myself and uh and Commissioner Canazaro. So uh all three board members are present. I will note that proof of notice is the uh listed on the second page of our packet. And uh we will move to our minutes from May 27th, 2025. So make our way back to those, um, which are uh separate uh stapled packet underneath the uh the meeting packet. Um just give everybody a quick chance to flip through it, especially since this is Councilor Hogan's first meeting. So I won't vote on this minutes. Okay. Um all right. Well then um I'll entertain a motion to approve the minutes. So moved. I will second it. All in favor. Aye, aye. Opposed, carried. Um all right. Next up we will go to our new business, and we have two resolutions, so turn it over to Meg. Thank you, Mayor. Um, this first resolution number 3469 is authorizing SURA to enter into an agency agreement with the Syracuse Housing Housing Strategies Corporation um to award financial assistance and administer the newly adopted Syracuse Housing Strategy Implementation Urban Renewal Plan. Um this is in connection with um the funding agreement that's our previously authorized to enter into with the city for the 2.5 million dollars. So now the those funds will be used for the Syracuse Housing Strategies Corporation to implement the new urban renewal plan. So and they will the housing strategies corporation will be acting as SERIS agent, so that's what necessitates this agreement. And right now um the housing strategies corporation has um one tier, if you will, of funding that they have um dedicated the block grant block grant program. Um so right now the agency agreement will be specific to that, well with the understanding that the 2.5 million would be used beyond that. It's not gonna all be spent. I I don't um anticipate on just that portion of the programming. So this board will probably be considering extensions, but since that's all that the housing strategies corporation has um solidified so far, um, I want to ensure that SURA since the money will be flowing through Surah has some oversight here to ensure that the funds will be used um in accordance with the urban renewal plan. Right. Okay. Um I know most of us were um at the housing strategies corporation meeting, but anything for public record that you want to um summarize from that meeting as it relates to this agreement. I think we just acknowledge the the need for both council for housing strategies corporation and Sura to sign off on the final language. Um which as typical in the I I can add it to the resolution that right now it just has any terms. Um actually we can go to it just to make sure I'm quoting it directly. It's gonna be on page three of resolution number 3469, um starting with now, therefore be it resolved. Um let's see. Fourth line down, subject to the approval of the agency's council as to terms form and execution. Right. Um we can also add in there um subject to approval by Syracuse Housing Strategies Corporation Council. That makes sense. Good. All right. Will that be noted with like there's an amendment when we vote or what? Within the yeah, I think we'll just make sure it's reflected in the motion. So then when um I draft the official resolution with you know the vote um that will be reflected. I will add that in if that's what the motion um is considering. All right. Any other questions?