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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council Tuesday, February 21, 2012 Page 11 Records Commission - Mrs. Mills reported that Ted Esborn has been trying to secure a grant. Ted, do you want to talk about,that a little bit? Mr. Esborn sta.ted, it's the Ohio Historical Records Society. They make a grant available for records retention or records storage. It's up to $3,000. I have been working with the Records Commission. The application is due a week from toda.y. We are putti.ng it together. I have been working with somebody at the County Archivist office and someone down in Columbus on the grant. Mary Beth and I are working together and we are hying to push towards digitization of some of our records. We hope to heaz back on that soon. Mrs. Mills replied, thank you Ted. Also, the boxes at the old Village Hall are complete. Shred Day will be Saturday, May 19ffi. We should have a possible House Bill 9 training in May. We have to retrain our new Council people. All who were elected and re-elected in November have to go to this training class. We need to get on boazd with that. They should be giving us a date shortly. Our next meeting is Mazch 14t'. Council President Buckholtz asked Mr. Esborn, keep me posted on that. My department works directly with the County azchives. I don't lnow if you aze talking about microfilm or just coming up with digital copies but now that we have consolidated IT, I head that up. I don't have anything to do with grant money, but I can find out. I understand there's tour of that whole azchive. The lady who has been running it has been running it for a long long time. Communitv and Economic Development - Mr. Delguyd reported, we met on February 14t'.We discussed various issues. One of the things we discussed was QED. They are expanding slightly right now with additional space and additional new hires. We have a goal currently to meet with them regularly. They have some intemal staff that they have hired, to more adequately address their long-term future needs. So rather than kind of coming in at the last minute and having a fire drill in the last three months to kind of satisfy their space needs, we want to make this a yeaz and a half or one yeaz process to figure out what they need. We are still trying to have them come back to us with their needs. We spoke a little bit about East Commons which Mr. Mazquardt spoke about briefly. Some issues are going back to Planning and Zoning. Again, everything is kind of in the discussion phase. Nothing really going on there. Preformed Line Products is going through an expansion of their building. They are also looking to get the building LEAD certified as a whole. I believe they are adding two different spaces on the back and 12 additional employees. Finally, we wrapped up speaking about economic development assistance and guidelines for the Village. It's in very preliminary stages. We have Ted and Dave coming back to us at our next meeting to give us our goals and what our baselines are for getting involved in economic development. and what we want with the community kind of blending payroll per square foot with redevelopment of the real estate which is one of the goals of the committee. Council President Buckholtz stated, I was at that part of the meeting. I didn't make the first part, but that bears repeating. I think this is something that's often come before Council in a rea1, not haphazard, but just kind of all over the place. The intent is always good to foster new businesses and help the Village grow. The specific task of the Committee is to actually come up with a plan that we can apply universally across the board and this idea of income per square foot, like what it actually would result and how much growth to the businesses now. I don't know if it's