July 23, 2014 at 2:10 p.m.
Commissioners OK EDIT change (6/14/05)
Modification gives OK to loan for home improvement store
By By Mike Snyder-
A decision to loan tax money to a Portland home improvement store earned the approval — a week late — from Jay County Commissioners.
The commissioners, who have final say on all uses of economic development income tax funds that have not been previously approved, allowed an increase in the city of Portland’s revolving loan fund Monday.
The change came at the request of Bob Quadrozzi, executive director of Jay County Development Corporation, on behalf of the Portland City Council and Community Home Improvement Inc.
Last week, the city council voted to loan $250,000 to CHI president/CEO Mike Mazur as part of a bank/public funds package.
The current limit for loan funds in the city’s capital improvement plan governing use of EDIT was $125,000.
The commissioners have final say over the capital improvement plans because the county takes a majority of its EDIT funds and divides it equally among the six incorporated towns and cities in the county. Most of the remainder of the money is used for county roads.
Quadrozzi apologized to Commissioners Faron Parr and Milo Miller Jr. for not coming to them for the requested modification before the loan was granted. Commissioner Gary Theurer was not in attendance during Monday’s session.
The loan to CHI will be used as operating capital, Quadrozzi said last week.
Last year, the city had granted a $580,000 EDIT loan to CHI as part of an effort to secure funding from the United States Department of Agriculture. The EDIT funds were returned to the city in May.
Also Monday, Parr and Miller discussed with county assessor Anita Mills whether to charge for online access to property record cards through the county’s Geographic Information System.
Mills told the commissioners she believes there should be a charge for the online service; there is currently a 10-cent charge to view property record cards in person at the assessor’s office.
The cards have a variety of general information about dwellings, including number of bedrooms, bathrooms and year of construction.
Mills and county auditor Freda Corwin plan to research the issue to find out what options are available.
The cards are in the assessor’s computer system. To be available online, the information would only have to be pulled over into the GIS database.
Also Monday morning, rural Redkey resident Joe Louck, who lives on county road 700 South, east of Ind. 1, asked the commissioners if his road was scheduled to be converted to chip-and-seal from stone.
The commissioners explained they have halted the chip-and-seal conversion program. About $150,000 is being spent this year to apply magnesium chloride dust control solution to about 100 miles of county roads. The goal is to control the dust and hopefully, over several years, build a harder base for conversion to chip-and-seal surface.[[In-content Ad]]
The commissioners, who have final say on all uses of economic development income tax funds that have not been previously approved, allowed an increase in the city of Portland’s revolving loan fund Monday.
The change came at the request of Bob Quadrozzi, executive director of Jay County Development Corporation, on behalf of the Portland City Council and Community Home Improvement Inc.
Last week, the city council voted to loan $250,000 to CHI president/CEO Mike Mazur as part of a bank/public funds package.
The current limit for loan funds in the city’s capital improvement plan governing use of EDIT was $125,000.
The commissioners have final say over the capital improvement plans because the county takes a majority of its EDIT funds and divides it equally among the six incorporated towns and cities in the county. Most of the remainder of the money is used for county roads.
Quadrozzi apologized to Commissioners Faron Parr and Milo Miller Jr. for not coming to them for the requested modification before the loan was granted. Commissioner Gary Theurer was not in attendance during Monday’s session.
The loan to CHI will be used as operating capital, Quadrozzi said last week.
Last year, the city had granted a $580,000 EDIT loan to CHI as part of an effort to secure funding from the United States Department of Agriculture. The EDIT funds were returned to the city in May.
Also Monday, Parr and Miller discussed with county assessor Anita Mills whether to charge for online access to property record cards through the county’s Geographic Information System.
Mills told the commissioners she believes there should be a charge for the online service; there is currently a 10-cent charge to view property record cards in person at the assessor’s office.
The cards have a variety of general information about dwellings, including number of bedrooms, bathrooms and year of construction.
Mills and county auditor Freda Corwin plan to research the issue to find out what options are available.
The cards are in the assessor’s computer system. To be available online, the information would only have to be pulled over into the GIS database.
Also Monday morning, rural Redkey resident Joe Louck, who lives on county road 700 South, east of Ind. 1, asked the commissioners if his road was scheduled to be converted to chip-and-seal from stone.
The commissioners explained they have halted the chip-and-seal conversion program. About $150,000 is being spent this year to apply magnesium chloride dust control solution to about 100 miles of county roads. The goal is to control the dust and hopefully, over several years, build a harder base for conversion to chip-and-seal surface.[[In-content Ad]]
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