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MOORESVILLE REDEVELOPMENT COMMISSION MINUTES FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 2005, 7:00 A. M. The Mooresville Redevelopment Commission met on Friday, January 21, 2005, at 7:00 A. M. at the Mooresville Town Hall. Commission members present were: Brian Nelson, Jim Ellis, Mike Haskins, and Helen Humes. Commission member Jim Ransome was absent. Attorney Tim Currens was present. A motion was made by Commissioner Ellis with a second by Commissioner Haskins to nominate Brian Nelson for President. Motion carried 4 -0. A motion was made by Commissioner Haskins with a second by Commissioner Ellis to nominate Jim Ransome for Vice President. Motion carried 4 -0. A motion was made by Commissioner Ellis with a second by Commissioner Nelson to nominate Helen Humes for Secretary. Motion carried 3 -0. A motion was made by Commissioner Haskins with a second by Commissioner Ellis to approve the minutes of November 30, 2004. Motion carried 4 -0. A motion was made by Commissioner Ellis with a second by Commissioner Humes to approve the minutes of December 20, 2004. Motion carried 4 -0. John Taylor, Morgan County Economic Development Corporation, displayed a layout of the Pac More building on the property. The rail runs from North to South and to put in a switch farther north would require purchasing some of the Field's property. A seventy - foot wide by five hundred foot long easement is needed. This would change the bid from Force Construction from $3,200 to $4,200, the bid from Tri States would stand at $5,580 and the bid from Holloway Engineering would not change since he had included a range of cost. The bids were originally done with the switch coming in directly to the Davee property. Pac More prefers Holloway to do the work because he is local. Mr. Taylor told the commission the Field's family needed some incentive in order to sell enough property for the easement. The ideal would be to bring the switch down to the end of Field's property to give the opportunity to service the Field's property. The railroad would like us to have a clearing switch. John said he needed to get design and drawings first and then give them to Mark Mathis, realtor of Fields, to go to them to try to get the easement. Mr. Mathis has approached them already and they wanted to know what value they would receive. Brian Nelson said, so the risk the redevelopment commission is running is paying for the design. Mr. Taylor said he wants to make sure the switch will work back on the Field's property before he can go to them and say we can serve both properties. He doesn't want to make a promise and then for whatever reason it can be done. Either way we are going to need to design something to access this property for