Good morning.

I'd like to call to order a meeting of the board of directors of the Syracuse Industrial Development Agency.

We'll start with a roll call of the board.

I'm Kathy Murphy.

Ricky Brown.

And Kenzie.

Thank you.

Proof of notice was properly served.

The minutes of our last meeting held May 19th.

Excuse me, were included in your packet.

Is there a motion to approve the minutes?

So moved.

Motion made by Dirk.

Is there a second?

Second, Steve.

All in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Opposed abstention.

Motion carries.

Thank you.

First item on the agenda is a request for the North Side Genesee project.

Good morning, everyone.

Um as Kathy mentioned, you have a resolution in your agenda.

The company is seeking five waivers from our local access policy.

All five are outlined in the resolution.

So the first request is for a company called Applied Coatings.

And I do want to say for the record, I'm a saying words that mean nothing to me.

So anybody who has questions, hold them for someone who knows what the words mean.

Exactly.

They are located in West Winfield, New York.

The total amount of the contract for applied coatings is 259,900 and represents 0.4% of the total project costs.

You want us to vote individually, I heard?

At the end.

Oh, okay.

Not at one.

I'll bring them back to you.

Um I let's go through them all and then we'll look at uh the project management.

This the second request is for a company by the name of certified commercial installations.

They are providing residential cabinets and countertops for the kitchens and the bathrooms.

There were five total bids received, three of which were outside of your local area.

The two local bids did not bid the scope of work uh for the entirety of the scope and were not able or interested to provide it.

The total cost of this contract is 988,336.

It represents 1.5% of the total project costs, and this company is located in New Jersey.

The third waiver is for upside innovations.

They are going to be providing can prefabricated canopies for overhang entry doors.

The total cost of this contract is 47,910, and it represents 0.1% of the total project costs.

This company is located in Ohio.

The fourth request is for valiant products.

This company is going to provide trash shoots and waste compactors for the residential units.4% of the total project costs, and that company is located in Ithaca, New York.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

Please state your name and address for the record, Otis, and maybe give us a brief overview of the project and the request.

Sure.

Otis de Luca, uh Huber Brewer Construction.

I reside uh 7676 Brown Gulf Road in uh Pompey, New York.

Um so we've got five waiver requests in this um in this request.

The first one is for the uh spray applied fireproofing.

Uh that is the fireproofing that goes on to the structural members to um uh to fireproof it.

Um we do not have a local company that does this scope of work at this scale.

There is uh one company that will do small amounts of it as part of their uh installation uh spray applied insulation work, uh, but no one that does the fireproofing at this scale.

So uh applied coatings.

Uh they are have recently even bought out by a builder service group.

That's why they're listed as two separate companies.

They're in Herkimer County.

Um questions on that.

Um, just on uh the spray applied uh fireproofing.

You said to scale in terms of that, what were you looking for in terms of scalability for that?

Uh so we have yeah, we have a the entire so the building's basically one city block.

The entire uh podium that the wood frame building sits upon is all steel with a concrete deck put on top.

Okay.

So there's there's quite a bit of uh steel that needs to be uh fireproof.

Okay, and just one last question.

In terms of your bidding process, where how do you guys list your bids?

Where do they go out to bid at?

Uh we uh we have a number of different ways.

We have a listserv that goes out to all of local contractors, all MWBE, all SDVOB that we have in our system, um, as well as other contractors that aren't uh one of those.

Um we send out an uh an email that goes out to everyone, like a listserv email.

Um we also administer some of that through our uh software ProCorps, where they actually just get an invitation through Procor to come in and bid.

Okay.

Yeah.

We had one local MWBE, but he just confirmed that he doesn't have the scalability.

So I was just double checking to see if that outwards were.

Who is that by the way?

Uh RH fire.

Oh RH fire, yeah, I know I'd fire.

Okay.

Yeah, they wouldn't want to take some.

Right, no, he he doesn't.

He confirmed, but thank you.

Yeah, sure.

Any other questions?

I just want to note, I believe it's in the resolution that uh total, it's about two percent of the total project cost, these waivers.

All five of these is two point five.

Correct.

And Otis, maybe you could give us a quick update on when leasing up is gonna start and when you see completion.

What was the first part of the question?

When you'll still start to lease the pro the building.

Oh, uh leasing is scheduled for um, they're gonna uh start signing people up, but the actual leasing would start, I believe, in July, July 1.

Right.

Um I'm sorry, it was second part.

And you'll be completed.

Oh, yes.

Yeah, yeah.

By July 1.

Okay, great.

And just for the record, this is we know it as Northside.

It's now called the Rosie, the one on East Genesee.

That you all drive by a hundred times.

Yeah.

Yeah, the signs are changing to the rosy.

Last call for questions.

Steve, good?

Yes.

Everybody good?

Thank you very much, Otis.

Thanks, Otis.

Um you only did one.

We did two.

That was the first one.

Sorry?

That was the first one on the list.

Okay.

Sure, continue down through.

Yep, go ahead, keep going.

Uh the next one is for certified commercial installations.

They are providing all of the uh cabinets and countertops for the units themselves, so the bathrooms and the kitchens within the units.

Um we got a number of different bids from all over the place as well as a few local ones.

Uh, we reached out to all of our kind of local cabinetry and countertop folks.

Um the countertop folks uh were able to put together a number to do just the countertop portion.

Um none of the cabinet people were interested.

They generally don't do this as kind of like a knockdown.

It's a little bit different than how they would normally do it.

They build kind of cabinets that we would put in our in our own kitchens.

These are a little bit different.

They're like a knockdown that you put in an elevator, you take them up into the room, and you and you um and you build them that way.

Uh this is more of like a manufactured overseas kind of product.

Um so we tried to get uh some of the local guys to kind of pair up and and do like a uh countertop uh kitchen cabinet package.

Uh nobody was interested in doing that.

Um so we went with our uh uh the out-of-town people.

Thank you.

What kind of kind of top are you putting in there?

Uh it is uh uh like a marble countertop.

Yeah.

Yeah, curious uh is your sense of the lack of interest in putting two people together, two organizations together that they're saturated with work, or it's not lucrative enough.

I think there is a definite saturation of work and having I think a lot of them just kind of want to do what they do and be left alone as far as like they don't want to coordinate with another company to put together a complete package.

But if they were hungry, they might so might be able to do that.

If they were hungry, I would absolutely understand how how how booked out we are.

Yes, in the past, yeah.

In the past, like say maybe 10 years ago, we would make those requests and they would jump at the opportunity.

Thank you.

Yeah, any other questions next up, Otis.

Upside okay.

Umpside innovations uh provides uh prefabricated canopies.

So imagine like when you walk into an exterior door, there's like a little uh like just a little awning kind of thing over the like a little miniature roof with two little posts holding it back to the building.

Um that's what they make.

They make them, they ship them, they install them all over the country.

Uh we had three respondents on this.

We went with the one out of Florida, which was the basis of design.

There was another one out of California, another one out of I want to say Ohio or maybe Texas.

I don't remember where each one of those are from, but um, yeah, there's not a local company that that does this uh work that we know of questions.

You went with the Ohio one, right?

What is the one?

Oh, I'm sorry, I mean with the Ohio.

I'm getting my uh my trash shoots in my sorry, we went with the Ohio one.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Yeah, apologies.

I'm a little disheveled.

I I dropped a trailer off the back of my truck on the way in here, so I didn't get a chance to go in and print things out, so I'm going off of my phone.

All right, thanks.

Next is Valiant.

Yeah.

Uh Valiant uh does uh trash shoots, right?

Go into a building, you open the you know, you live in a building, you open the door, you throw your trash down, goes down the chute, goes in and all that stuff.

Uh basis of design was this company out of Florida.

Um there was uh uh DV Brown is usually who we use locally.

They're I want to say Buffalo Buffalo.

Um again, not a local company that does uh trash shoots.

Questions uh last one is Wilcox building specialties, they're out of Ithaca, uh toilet bath and mail specialties.

Exactly.

You explain it, Otis.

So that's so that's all those items are all captured in uh uh what we call division 10, which is the uh specialty work.

So your toilet paper holders, your robe hooks, your shower curtains, uh soap dispensers, all that kind of stuff.

Um but they also there's also another section in division 10 that's for uh mail specialties, which would be like your your mailbox when you go to your you live in an apartment building, you go you open up your little box and you take your mail out.

Uh so that's why all of those are grouped together.

Um we used to work, I used to work almost exclusively with Al Mitchell here in town.

Um I was not doing business anymore.

Um really not anybody left here in town that does this.

Will clock Wilcox is the next closest.

There's another one up uh up north somewhere.

I want to say in Potsdam or something like that that also does the work, but we like we like Wilcox, Nith Gun.

Um questions on that one?

Questions?

Everybody good?

Thank you very much.

Sure.

Well, you can take your seat.

You're all done, I think.

Otis.

Um, do you want me to go through?

Yeah.

Okay, so um for purposes of the resolution, I'd like to take a motion one at a time.

So the first one would be a motion to approve the waiver for applied coatings.

Um motion made by Ken.

Second by Ricky.

All in favor, please say aye.

Opposed abstention, motion carry.

Thank you.

The next motion would be to approve a waiver for certified commercial installations.

They're the cabinets and countertops.

Motion.

Motion made by Ken.

Second by Recy.

All in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Upp post abstention, motion carries.

Thank you.

The third request is for a waiver for upside innovations.

They do the prefabricated canopies.

Motion motion made by Ken, second by Ricky.

All in favor, please say aye.

Uppost abstention, motion carries.

Thank you.

The next resolution is to approve a waiver for valiant products.

They do the trash shoots and waste compactors.

Motion made by Ken, second by Ricky.

All in favor, please say aye.

Opposed abstention, motion carries.

Thank you.

And the last resolution is for a waiver for Wilcox building specialties.

They do the toilet bath and mail specialties.

Yeah, motion made by Ken, second by Ricky.

All in favor, please say aye.

Opposed abstention, motion carries.

Thank you very much.

Thank you very much, Otis.

Have a great rest of the day.

Get that trailer.

Oh, sorry.

We didn't mean to let out.

Yeah.

Uh next item on the agenda is a request from Swanson Fulton Street, 311 Gannett.

So good morning, everyone.

Again, there's one resolution in the packet, it but it requests three separate waivers from your local access policy.

The first one is for Rai Gone Foundations.

They do cast in place concrete foundations and slabs.

The company received two bids.

Only one of those bids was for the complete scope of work.

The total cost of the contract is 457,926, and it represents 2.2% of the total project costs.

This company is located in Waterford, New York.

The second request is for CFE roofing.

They will provide new roofing, insulation, membranes, wood blocking, and parapet walls.

There were four bids, two of which were outside.

The lowest bid was in fact inside, but the work did not include the full scope.

The total cost of this contract is $682,626.

It represents 3.4% of the total project costs.

And this company is located in Endicott, New York.

The last request is for Erie contracting.

I'll note that Erie is a WBE.

They are providing historic and non-historic windows, storefront glass and glazing and skylights.

There were three bids, two of which were inside.

Only Erie bid the full scope of work, including the historic windows at a cost that met budget.

The total cost of this project is 889,874.

It represents 4.4% of the total project costs.

And the company is located in Lancaster, New York.

Thank you, Sue.

Morning.

Good morning.

My name is Lowell Niemitz.

I reside at 640 Fellows Ave here in Syracuse.

So this project is a historic renovation of the building at 311 Gannant.

We are getting through abatement and demo and starting to rough in mechanicals and do other various uh site work activities.

Sure.

So the first scope of work was the cast in place foundations and slabs.

It was apparent through the bid process that the amount of construction work this season with the 81 project and the micron project.

There was a lack of interest in getting bids for this.

And Ragon carried the full scope, including materials and labor for all the foundations.

Next one is the roofing.

Questions.

Okay, sorry.

Next.

No problem.

Next one is CFE roofing.

Uh again, this is a historic renovation of the building, so there's quite a bit of blocking and metal facade panel work and things like that that go into the roof, not just the membrane roof.

They were the only bidder that captured all of those things in their bid, and they were the most competitive by a large margin.

Yep.

Question.

Well, they totally script in the roof and dark.

Yep.

Any other questions?

Next little thanks.

Next is the windows and the skylight package.

Um again that scope also included storefront glass, fire glass and glazing.

That's eerie contracting.

They again captured the full scope of work, including the historic window portion of the job.

Questions.

Comments.

Thanks very much, Lowell.

Thank you.

So if there's no questions, I'll go through them one at a time.

So the first um request is for a waiver for Rai Gone Foundations.

That's the concrete foundation entity.

Motion.

Motion made by Ricky.

Second by Ken.

All in favor?

Aye.

Opposed, abstention, motion carries.

Thank you.

The next resolution is a request for a waiver for CFE roofing.

Motion made by Ricky.

Second by Ken.

All in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Opposed abstention.

Motion carries.

Thank you.

The last resolution is a request for a waiver for eerie contracting to do the historic non and non-historic windows, storefront, glazing and skylights.

I move it.

Oh motion made by Turk.

Second by Ken.

All in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Opposed abstention.

Motion carries.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Thank you all to Huber Brewer and your projects.

We appreciate your hard work on these requests and the hard work you're doing on our projects.

Have a great day.

Thanks.

Thanks.

Next item on the agenda, 250 Harrison Street.

So bye, Gary.

Good good morning, everyone.

First, I I handed out to each of you at the beginning a revised resolution for this project.

I apologize.

I made a mistake in what was inserted as the project description.

The rest of the resolution was correct in terms of when it closed and what they're requesting.

It was just an inadvertent holdover.

So the one you have in front of you properly references the 250 Harrison Street project.

The company is requesting an extension of its appointment as your agent to complete the project.

Their current um deadline is June 30th of this year, and they are not asking for any additional financial assistance.

They still have a small amount of their sales tax exemption remaining.

They simply are asking that you extend their time to finally complete the project through the end of this year.

Um this is a relatively standard request for companies that are working to build out areas.

So when you don't have a pilot, the term of your leases is much shorter.

It's really only the construction period until they're done, because then there's no reason for you to remain, you know, having an interest.

So we will, if approved, we will amend the leases to extend through the end of this year as well so that you can continue to have the interest so that they can continue to act as your agent.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

Questions comments, motion, so moved.

Motion made by Dirk to extend the leases to December 31st of 2026 on 250 Harrison.

Is there a second?

Second, Ken.

All in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Opposed abstention, motion carries.

Thank you.

Um I would now entertain a motion to go into executive session for the purpose of discussing litigation.

Motion made by Ricky.

Second by Ken.

All in favor, aye.

Opposed, abstention, motion carries.

I will note for those in attendance and those listening or watching.

We will not be taking any further action after we return from executive session except to adjourn this board meeting.

So you're all welcome to wait.

But all right, let's go.

We can go to my office, but I don't have enough chairs.

Okay.

Well that won't work.