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City of Sidney Resolution No. 69-25 — authorizing the expansion of the City's Sidney City-Wide Community Reinvestment Area and amending Resolution 84-22, passed 2025-09-08
2025-09-08-res-69-25-cra-expansion-and-megaproject-tier
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instrument
City of Sidney Resolution No. 69-25 — authorizing the expansion of the City's Sidney City-Wide Community Reinvestment Area and amending Resolution 84-22, passed 2025-09-08
resolution_no
69-25
body
Council of the City of Sidney, Ohio
body_kind
city_council
subject_matter
tax_incentive
adopted
2025-09-08
title_verbatim
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE EXPANSION OF THE CITY'S SIDNEY CITY-WIDE COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT AREA AND AMENDING RESOLUTION 84-22
outcome
approved
statute
R.C. 3735.65-3735.70
journal_pages
- 0296
- 0297
- 0298
- 0299
- 0300
- 0301
- 0302
amends
- resolution_no 84-22
- adopted 2022-10-10
- what_it_did Created and established the Sidney City-Wide Community Reinvestment Area, assigned designation #149-72424-06 by the Director of the Ohio Department of Development.
- in_corpus data/extracted/sidney/council/2022-10-10-res-84-22-citywide-cra-established.resolution.yaml
expansion
- verbatim SECTION 2. Pursuant to Section 3735.66 of the CRA Act, the City-Wide CRA is hereby amended and expanded to include the Expanded Area.
- effect [verified] The expansion is stated in §1 to leave the City-Wide CRA "having boundaries which are currently coterminous with the City". The Expanded Area is described and depicted on the instrument's Exhibit A (pp. 7-18), which is image-only and NOT read here.
- what_the_minutes_add [verified] Community Development Director Barbara Dulworth told Council the expansion "would extend the city Community Reinvestment Area (CRA) boundaries to incorporate the recent annexations, including the 243.092 acres on the north side of Millcreek Road, west of Vandemark Road and the 53.16 acres of land west of Vandemark Road, south of Fair Road." Source: data/documents/sidney/council/City Council Minutes September 08, 2025.pdf p. 2.
- note [inference] "The north side of Millcreek Road, west of Vandemark Road" is the same locator the Res. 80-25 recitals use for the Amazon Data Services project site. The minutes do not join the two, and this resolution names no project; recorded as a locator match, not a finding.
megaproject_tier
- tag verified
- new_in_this_resolution yes
- journal_page 0300
- verbatim (e) Up to thirty (30) years, and up to one hundred percent (100%) if the commercial or industrial structure is situated on the site of a megaproject and is owned and occupied by a megaproject operator (as such terms are defined in Ohio Revised Code Section 122.17(A)(12)), or is not situated on the site of a megaproject but is owned and occupied by a megaproject supplier that meets the requirements described in Ohio Revised Code Section 122.17(A)(13)(b)
- ceiling_before_this_resolution [verified] Res. 84-22 §4 as adopted ran (a) through (d) and stopped at FIFTEEN years / 100% for new commercial and industrial construction. It contains no thirty-year tier and no reference to R.C. 122.17.
- thresholds_as_stated_to_council [verified] "large-scale development project meeting specific investment or payroll thresholds, such as at least $1 billion in capital investment or creating $75 million in annual payroll. She noted that the Ohio Department of Development (ODOD) was responsible for certifying megaprojects." — the minutes of this meeting, p. 2. These are STAFF'S characterisation of R.C. 122.17(A)(12); the statute itself is not quoted in the instrument.
- downstream [verified] Res. 80-25 (2025-10-27) authorized a CRA Agreement whose exemption is 30 years at 100%. [verified] The minutes of THAT meeting recite this resolution as the authority: "Per the Ohio Revised Code, and the recently adopted revised Sidney City-Wide CRA, property tax abatements for up to 30 years can be approved for megaprojects or megaproject operators."
- what_is_still_open [open] Whether the Ohio Department of Development has in fact DESIGNATED this campus a megaproject. The 2025-10-27 minutes say only that the project "meets the requirements to be designated" — eligibility asserted by staff, in the present tense, not a designation stated as made. No ODOD certification is in the corpus.
monitoring_fee
- tag verified
- journal_page 0301
- verbatim SECTION 5. An annual monitoring fee to the City of Sidney of one percent (1%) of the amount of the incentives, or a minimum of Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), up to a maximum of Twenty-five Hundred Dollars ($2,500.00) annually is required for commercial and industrial projects.
- note [verified] The fee is 1% of the incentives but CAPPED AT $2,500 a year. Recorded because the cap is a fact about the instrument, not an argument: it is what the City charges to administer an exemption of any size, including a thirty-year one.
other_sections
- [verified] §3 — all residential, commercial and industrial properties in the Expanded Area, consistent with applicable zoning, are eligible.
- [verified] §6 — "Except as amended hereby, Resolution 84-22 shall remain in full force and effect."
- [verified] §7 — a copy of the Resolution goes to the Shelby County Auditor, sent by the Community Development Director.
- [verified] §8 — the Community Development Director is authorized to petition the ODOD Director for approval of the expanded City-Wide CRA under R.C. 3735.66.
- [verified] §9 — the R.C. 121.22 open-meetings finding.
vote
- roll_call_recorded no
- outcome_recorded yes
- verbatim Councilmember Roddy made a motion to adopt Resolution No. 69-25 as presented; seconded by Councilmember VanMatre. Upon a roll call vote, the motion passed unanimously. Resolution No. 69-25 is hereby adopted.
- moved_by Councilmember Scott Roddy
- seconded_by Councilmember Jenny VanMatre
- result passed unanimously
- source
- file data/documents/sidney/council/City Council Minutes September 08, 2025.pdf
- pages 2-3
- note [verified] A roll call WAS taken; the minutes record its outcome and not its individual votes. That is the form of these minutes for an uncontested item — contrast Res. 82-25 on 2025-10-27, where the same clerk journalled seven names because the vote was divided.
- deliberation [verified] "There were no questions or comments on this topic." Recorded verbatim because it is the whole of the public deliberation on the clause that created the thirty-year tier.
what_this_instrument_does_not_establish
- IT NAMES NO PROJECT, NO COMPANY AND NO PARCEL. Every word about Amazon, the campus or the data center in this file comes from the MINUTES or from a later instrument, and is labelled as such. A reader must not cite this resolution for the campus.
- THE EXPANDED AREA IS NOT READ. Exhibit A (pp. 7-18) is the boundary map and legal description, and it is image-only. The two annexation acreages above are the minutes' account of it, not a reading of the exhibit. [open]
- IT GRANTS NOTHING. §4 sets ceilings to be "negotiated on a case-by-case basis in advance of construction"; the grant is the CRA Agreement, authorized separately by Res. 80-25.
⚠ Gaps in the record
- Clean native text layer, no OCR — but the scan is of a bound journal and the embedded font substitutes some letter pairs and drops others ("fonnal" for formal, "SE CTI ON" for SECTION). Quoted as extracted, not silently repaired. No figure is affected.
Where it connects
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