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Middleton Township Trustees — statement of support for the Liames LLC Community Reinvestment Area application to the Wood County Commissioners, 2023-09-20
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Middleton Township Trustees — statement of support for the Liames LLC Community Reinvestment Area application to the Wood County Commissioners, 2023-09-20
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Board of Trustees, Middleton Township, Wood County, Ohio
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township_trustees
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tax_incentive
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2023-09-20
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regular
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approved
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- motion_verbatim "to state their support of the Community Reinvestment Area Application as provided to the Wood County Commissioners for a 75% tax abatement for 15 years, with the school districts being awarded in full, as applied for by Liames LLC for a data center"
- motion_moved_by Michael Moulton
- motion_seconded_by Donald E. Cromley
- roll_call_recorded no
- tally_verbatim Motion approved.
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- id END-USE-DISCLOSED-2023
- tag [verified]
- statement_verbatim "[The] Community Reinvestment Area (CRA) application that will be presented to the Wood County Commissioners on September 28. The application provides a 75% tax abatement for 15 years and was applied for by Liames LLC for a Data Center on the rezoned properties within the CRA boundaries. Mr. Gottschalk noted it is a $750M investment in the township for a data center by a Fortune 200 company."
- speaker Wade Gottschalk, Wood County Economic Development executive director
- note THREE THINGS ARE ESTABLISHED HERE THAT THE REGISTER PREVIOUSLY CARRIED AS PRESS. (1) The end use — "a Data Center" — is stated on a township agenda on 2023-09-20. (2) The $750M figure, which the register carries as a "[reference] pro-forma / DCD framing," is the county's own economic-development director speaking at a public meeting; that it was SAID is [verified], the figure itself remains a projection and stays [reference], but its provenance is now a public body's minutes rather than trade press. (3) The properties were ALREADY REZONED by 2023-09-20 — "on the rezoned properties within the CRA boundaries" — which is the township's own confirmation that the seller-name rezonings of March and May 2023 preceded the assembly's public phase. Note also "Fortune 200 company": the county knew the counterparty's scale and did not name it. Meta was Fortune 200 in 2023; so were roughly two hundred others, and no identification is made from this line.
- id SCHOOL-SEQUENCE
- tag [verified]
- statement_verbatim "Eastwood School Board met with regard to the funding to the schools and approved their support. Otsego School Board meets soon to review the data as well as Penta Vocational Center."
- note Establishes the order: Eastwood first, Otsego and Penta still to come, all three before the county's 2023-09-28 vote. "Penta Vocational Center" here and "Penta Career Center" in the county journal are the same body under two renderings; both are carried.
- id SCHOOLS-MADE-WHOLE
- tag [verified]
- statement The township's motion conditions its support on "the school districts being awarded in full" — a schools-made-whole framing in the township's own words. What "in full" means in the executed compensation agreements is [open].
⚠ Gaps in the record
- Every figure here is a statement made by a promoter at a public meeting. The minutes verify that it was said. They do not verify the investment total, and no agreement in the corpus states it.
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