City Approves Written Fiscal Plan for Property Annexations
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Jennifer Peryam-jperyam@timesuniononline.com
Warsaw City Council Monday adopted a written fiscal plan for annexation of two Warsaw properties.
The public hearing on the fiscal plan was Monday.
The city will vote at its April 16 meeting on an annexation ordinance for the two properties.
One of the properties is the Kerlin Property on the northeast side of CR 200W and U.S. 30, and the Cardinal Services property is at the northwest corner of U.S. 30 and CR 200W.
The two properties total three-fourth miles, and cost approximately $310,000 to bring roads up to commercial standards, according to Jeremy Skinner, city planner.
Proposed capital expenditures will be paid for from the Northern Tax Increment Finance district.
The annexation will allow for an industrial park to be created.
In addition to these two properties, the industrial park will include existing properties that are already on Silveus Crossing.
It is unknown at this point what is going into the industrial park, Warsaw Mayor Joe Thallemer said.
The Kerlin property is a single property owned by Lora J. Ogden and Cynthia J. Zehr. The property has an industrial zoning designation. In order to match the county’s zoning designation, the city will designate the property’s zoning classification as Industrial-2 once is it annexed into the city.
The Cardinal Services property is an industrial zoning designation. The closest comparable designation within the city’s zoning ordinance is Industrial-2.
In other business, the council approved an ordinance to transfer $70,000 from street main machinery and equipment to street main budget repairs and maintenance. The transfer is to allow for more paving.
The council also approved transferring $33,000 from the motor vehicle highway operating supplies fund to motor vehicle highway repair and maintenance fund to allow for more paving.
“This will allow Smith Street to be paved this year,” Thallemer said.
Thallemer said he will provide the council, in the next week, with a list of street and roads that will be paved.
He said with the mild winter the city was fortunate to not use as much salt.
Lacy Francis, street superintendent, felt there were funds from the salt budget that could be moved from the salt budget to the asphalt budget.
The council also approved a traffic safety commission membership ordinance.
The voting membership will consist of seven members: two citizens of the community, two members of the city council, two representatives of the police department and one representative of the school corporation.
The ordinance states each voting member of the commission, including common council members other than the administrator or city employees, will receive $30 per meeting.
