Jordan J. Garrison, State's Attorney | Macoupin County
Jordan J. Garrison, State's Attorney | Macoupin County
Macoupin County Board Economic Development Committee met June 5.
Here are the minutes provided by the committee:
I. CALL TO ORDER
PRESENT: Armour, Starr, Blank, Kilduff, Klausing, Payne, Rosentreter, Duncan, Garrison, Fisher, Anderson
ABSENT:
II. AGENDA ITEMS
1. Energy Transition Community Grant Program
Dan Fisher spoke about the energy transition grant application. The county had been awarded nearly $325,000 while the group that the City of Gillespie was part of had received over $1,000,000. To receive the money the county needed to submit the phase 2 application by July 31st. This application would require specific projects, costs, and timelines. It will also require the county to have a public hearing and seek out public comment especially from interested parties the grant application lines up. The committee wanted to try and partner with the other applicants in the county to have 2 public hearings, one in Carlinville and one in Gillespie, that included all parties. Fisher said that the county needed to start thinking about different projects that they would want to include in the project.
Duncan said that the top priority for this project should be to hire a grant manager full time who could handle these type of things in the future and hopefully also help other local units of government apply as well. The committee agreed. He also mention the broadband expansion the Board was working with Frontier on as well as the road sign replacements that they had been discussing as possible projects.
2. Potential Mineral Rights Accommodation Agreement
Ryan Anderson with Cypress Creek Renewables spoke about his group wanting to get an accommodation agreement in place with the county that would say the county wouldn't mine the area west of Virden that the county owned mineral rights for the next 30 years. They were looking at developing the area for a solar project. There would be a one time fee for the project. The committee said they would look into the matter.
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