A special meeting of the Board of Aldermen was held Tuesday, January 22, 2019, at 7:00 p.m. in the
Aldermanic Chamber.
President Lori Wilshire presided; City Clerk Patricia Piecuch recorded.
Prayer was offered by City Clerk Patricia Piecuch; Alderman Ken Gidge led in the Pledge to the Flag.
The roll call was taken with members of the Board of Aldermen present; Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja
was recorded after roll call.
President Wilshire
Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja was stuck in traffic coming over the Hudson Bridge; she will be with us shortly.
Tonight’s Special Board of Aldermen Meeting is a presentation and a status update on the Performing Arts Center
with Director Cummings from the Office of Economic Development. Would you care to join us Director Cummings,
there is an empty seat here and an empty seat there.
PRESENTATION
Status Update on the Performing Arts Center with Tim Cummings, Director of Economic Development
Tim Cummings, Director of Economic Development
Thank you.
President Wilshire
Thank you for being here.
Mr. Cummings
Thank you for having me. For the record my name is Tim Cummings and | am the Director of Economic
Development for the City. | am here before you this evening to provide a status update relative to the Performing
Arts Center project. What is before you is a quick one-page memo which | will make sure that my Corporation
Counsel has first. So what is before you is a one-page memo which basically outlines some of the major items,
tasks, new developments that have occurred since the last time we were together discussing this project, which
was on December 20", 2018. Niel Cannon and | gave this body an overview of how the New Market Tax Credit
Program works.
What | thought | would do today is just highlight in bullet form some of the major new developments that have
occurred along the way. | also have some attachments which | will go through, not in any particular detail because
we do have a regularly scheduled meeting where these presentations are discussed at length. For this evening’s
conversation, just want to give you a thumbnail type presentation more than anything else to kind of give you the
reader’s digest version.
With that being said, as | just alluded to a few moments ago, we have regularly scheduled meetings and | provided
this group with the schedule of meetings occurring between now and May. Essentially it is every Wednesday night
at 5:00 p.m. in Room 208 here in City Hall for about 2 hours we will be meeting and primarily focusing on designing
the Performing Arts Center.
Architecture and Construction Manager Contracts were recently approved by the Finance Committee. We awarded
Harvey Construction for the Construction Management; and then ICON in partnership with OTJ as our Architectural
Team for the design. | will note, | didn’t add it on to this list because we did this a few months back and again
