City Approves Warsaw Technology Park Economic Revitalization Resolution
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
By Jennifer [email protected]
The tech park is on Polk Drive off of Silveus Crossing, north of Medtronic by Madison Elementary.
A ribbon cutting will be July 14 at 1:30 p.m. for the technology park.
Jeremy Skinner, city planner, made the request for the designation.
“This is the first step which will allow for tax abatements. You have to first designate it as an ERA and people who want to expand or build here can come in and apply for a tax abatement,” Skinner said. This will allow applicants to apply for tax abatements on real and personal property.
The shell building is up.
Warsaw Mayor Joe Thallemer said as the tech park is being marketed there has been a lot of activity and businesses with questions on incentives.
The technology park is zoned industrial and allows a wide variety of manufacturing, research and development and general industrial uses. The park was created to provide incentivized shovel-ready industrial property for future job creation and industrial growth.
In other business, the council approved a tax abatement compliance review form for Flexaust Company, 602 Leiter Drive, on personal property.
They have spent $286,000 since filing the statement of benefits form in 2011. They estimated adding 25 new employees and have currently added 117 new employees.
The council reviewed a Wastewater Utility Pretreatment Programs Sewer Use ordinance. The agreement says the program has the responsibility to develop, maintain and enforce the Sewer Use Ordinance to implement the pretreatment program in compliance with federal, state and local law.
The council will approve the ordinance at its July 20 meeting.
With the closure of the Center Street wastewater plant in October 2012, all industrial flow is coming to the new treatment plant, according to Duane Griner, certified pretreatment coordinator. This is approximately 22 to 25 percent of the total flow based on 3.2 million gallons a day. Previous industrial flow at the new facility was approximately 16 to 18 percent of the total flow.
In order to protect the plant there needs to be a technical reevaluation of the existing wastewater utility local effluent limitations, Griner said.
The recommendation is to raise the daily maximum limit for cyanide from 0.03 mg. to 0.50 mg.
This limit still recognizes the need to control influent cyanide loadings in order to protect the plant operations, but also provides some measure of relief to industrial users, Griner said.
The council approved a resolution to transfer $182,200 from the general fund to the general bond fund to enhance the fund which is in need of money for cash flow purposes.
A proclamation for fair housing month also was read by Thallemer that encourages fair housing for the community.
Pam Kennedy, Housing Opportunities of Warsaw executive director, and Aaron Lehman, HOW associate director, accepted the proclamation.
Thallemer thanked them for their work on providing fair housing.
A fair housing survey is available at city hall for residents to fill out.[[In-content Ad]]
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The tech park is on Polk Drive off of Silveus Crossing, north of Medtronic by Madison Elementary.
A ribbon cutting will be July 14 at 1:30 p.m. for the technology park.
Jeremy Skinner, city planner, made the request for the designation.
“This is the first step which will allow for tax abatements. You have to first designate it as an ERA and people who want to expand or build here can come in and apply for a tax abatement,” Skinner said. This will allow applicants to apply for tax abatements on real and personal property.
The shell building is up.
Warsaw Mayor Joe Thallemer said as the tech park is being marketed there has been a lot of activity and businesses with questions on incentives.
The technology park is zoned industrial and allows a wide variety of manufacturing, research and development and general industrial uses. The park was created to provide incentivized shovel-ready industrial property for future job creation and industrial growth.
In other business, the council approved a tax abatement compliance review form for Flexaust Company, 602 Leiter Drive, on personal property.
They have spent $286,000 since filing the statement of benefits form in 2011. They estimated adding 25 new employees and have currently added 117 new employees.
The council reviewed a Wastewater Utility Pretreatment Programs Sewer Use ordinance. The agreement says the program has the responsibility to develop, maintain and enforce the Sewer Use Ordinance to implement the pretreatment program in compliance with federal, state and local law.
The council will approve the ordinance at its July 20 meeting.
With the closure of the Center Street wastewater plant in October 2012, all industrial flow is coming to the new treatment plant, according to Duane Griner, certified pretreatment coordinator. This is approximately 22 to 25 percent of the total flow based on 3.2 million gallons a day. Previous industrial flow at the new facility was approximately 16 to 18 percent of the total flow.
In order to protect the plant there needs to be a technical reevaluation of the existing wastewater utility local effluent limitations, Griner said.
The recommendation is to raise the daily maximum limit for cyanide from 0.03 mg. to 0.50 mg.
This limit still recognizes the need to control influent cyanide loadings in order to protect the plant operations, but also provides some measure of relief to industrial users, Griner said.
The council approved a resolution to transfer $182,200 from the general fund to the general bond fund to enhance the fund which is in need of money for cash flow purposes.
A proclamation for fair housing month also was read by Thallemer that encourages fair housing for the community.
Pam Kennedy, Housing Opportunities of Warsaw executive director, and Aaron Lehman, HOW associate director, accepted the proclamation.
Thallemer thanked them for their work on providing fair housing.
A fair housing survey is available at city hall for residents to fill out.[[In-content Ad]]
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