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    Posted: Apr 28 2016 at 4:18pm

MIDDLETOWN CITY COUNCIL AGENDA

TUESDAY, May 3, 2016

BUSINESS MEETING – 5:30 pm – COUNCIL CHAMBERS – LOWER LEVEL

1. MOMENT OF MEDITATION/PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG

2. ROLL CALL

3. CITIZEN COMMENTS, GUESTS, ORGANIZATIONS’ REPORTS

4. PRESENTATION OF PROCLAMATIONS Corrections Officers Week - May 1-7, 2016 Municipal Clerks Week – May 1-7, 2016 Letter Carriers Food Drive Day - May 14, 2016 5.

CITY MANAGER REPORTS

6. CONSENT AGENDA. . . Matters listed under the Consent Agenda are considered to be routine and will be enacted by one motion and one vote of consent. There will be no separate discussion of these items. If discussion is desired, that item will be removed and considered separately.

(a) Approve City Council Minutes: April 19, 2016

(b) Confirm Personnel Appointments: Sarah Fox- Staff Attorney, Law Department Darren McGuire - Maintenance Worker, Public Works & Utilities Department, Division of Sewer Maint. Henry Morgerson - Maintenance Worker, Public Works & Utilities Department, Division of Stormwater Sarah Strunks- Corrections Officer, Department of Public Safety, Division of Police (c) Receive and File Board and Commission Minutes: Board of Zoning Appeals- January 6, 2015 Architectural Review Board- May 12, 2015 Historic Commission- October 22, 2015 Planning Commission- December 9, 2015 Library Board- January 19, February 16 & March 15, 2016 Convention & Visitors Board- February 15 & March 14, 2016

(d) Receive and File Oaths of Office: Luke Agee, Millicent Jackson, Joyce Morris, Christopher Smith

(e) Receive and File Letters of Credit Guaranteeing Public Improvements Constructed as Part of Hendrickson Road Extension and the New England Heights

(f) Receive, File and Approve the Final Plat for New England Heights Section 11 7. 

MOTION AGENDA

(a)    To Approve the Sale of a City-owned Vacant Lot (200 Curryer Road) to Richard & Kathy Adkins for $500.

COUNCIL COMMENTS

LEGISLATION

 1. Resolution No. R2016-09, a resolution to make adjustments to appropriations for current expenses and other expenditures of the City of Middletown, Counties of Butler and Warren, State of Ohio, for the period ending December 31, 2016 and declaring an emergency. (General Fund)

 2. Resolution No. R2016-10, a resolution authorizing the purchase of certain real property, located on the southwest corner of Columbia Avenue and Verity Parkway, and declaring an emergency.

 3. Resolution No. R2016-11, a resolution to make adjustments to appropriations for current expenses and other expenditures of the City of Middletown, Counties of Butler and Warren, State of Ohio, for the period ending December 31, 2016 and declaring an emergency. (General Fund, Auto & Gas Fund, Storm Water Fund and Municipal Garage Fund)

 4. Resolution No. R2016-12, a resolution to make adjustments to appropriations for current expenses and other expenditures of the City of Middletown, Counties of Butler and Warren, State of Ohio, for the period ending December 31, 2016 and declaring an emergency. (Appropriation Transfer- General Fund)

 5. Ordinance No. O2016-12, an ordinance authorizing the City to enter into a loan agreement with the Ohio Department of Transportation and deliver a related note in the maximum principal amount of $452,000 for the purpose of paying the costs of constructing a two lane with median access road of about 1,200 linear feet from Union Road to the proposed AK Steel Research and Innovation Center and the chemical stabilization and asphalt paving of Wildwood Road, Barnitz Street, Jewell Avenue, Wisconsin Street, Vermont Street and South Main Street as well as an alley along Barnitz Park, together with related improvements and all necessary appurtenances thereto, and authorizing the execution of any additional documents related thereto, and declaring an emergency.

 6. Ordinance No. O2016-13, an ordinance establishing a procedure for and authorizing a contract with National Water Services for the rehabilitation of a production well and declaring an emergency. 7. Ordinance No. O2016-14, an ordinance authorizing an agreement with MetroParks of Butler County regarding the River Center Project and declaring an emergency.

 EXECUTIVE SESSION Under the authority of O.R.C. 121.22 (G) (4) Preparing for, conducting, or reviewing negotiations or bargaining sessions with public employees concerning their compensation or other terms and conditions of their employment.

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Posted: 9:30 a.m. Friday, May 6, 2016

Middletown pays $20K to buy back building it donated to company

By Mike Rutledge

Staff Writer

 

MIDDLETOWN 

City and elected officials have few details about why it cost $20,000 to buy back a building the city donated four years ago, but they remain confident that the structure can be a valuable asset in the future.

City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to pay $20,000 for the former Middletown Area Senior Citizens Center building at the southwest corner of Columbia Avenue and Verity Parkway. This is the same building the city it donated four years ago for use by Cincinnati State Technical & Community College, but the school does not have plans to use it.

Before the 5-0 vote, City Manager Doug Adkins said the $20,000 purchase price represents costs that Higher Education Partners, owners of the building, “have incurred to date in purchasing and carrying costs associated with the building, in lieu of putting it back out for sale.”

According to Journal-News articles, the city donated the building to Higher Education Partners in 2012. HEP signed a deal with the city to purchase the former CG&E building at 1 N. Main St. for $202,000 and accept a donation of the former senior center building.

Adkins clarified his comments Thursday to the Journal-News in an email, writing, “We donated the building but there were still legal costs, etc., associated with the transfer” in an email.

The $20,000 figure was provided by HEP to the city without detail, according to Adkins.

“They obviously had some utility, insurance costs, etc., over the past 3-4 years that I assume without knowing, went into that number.”

Asked whether the city had asked for an itemized list of those costs, he wrote: “No.”

“That was the price if we wanted the building back,” Adkins wrote in an email. “The detail wasn’t going to change the discussion or the decision.”

Officials from HEP on Thursday did not respond to a request for comment.

Cincinnati State does not have have a future use for that building,” Adkins told members of council before their vote.

“It’s in our best interest to take that building back and protect that use,” he said.

The city approved the $20,000 purchase as an emergency measure — meaning consideration was needed at just one council meeting.

Because the city charter discourages use of one-meeting decisions — partly because they limit the opportunity for the public to comment on pending council decisions — at least four of council’s five members must be present at a meeting, and all present must vote to consider legislation on an emergency basis.

Asked why he recommended city council approve the legislation as an emergency measure, Adkins declined to give his reason.

“HEP stated why they intended to transfer the building now verbally and asked that we not share that information,” he wrote in an email to the Journal-News.

Council Member Steve Bohannon said Thursday he realized the city was buying a building it had donated to HEP, and did so without seeing a list of the costs the organization claimed it had paid.

“No, we have not seen any kind of an itemized list as to what the costs they have incurred over the last four years with the building,” he said.

“They just came to us and said, ‘We’ve got $20,000 tied up in it so far, and if you want it, if you’re willing to pay us back what we’ve got in it, then that’s what we’ll do for you,’ ” Bohannon said.

Before the vote, Council Member Talbott Moon asked Adkins whether he saw the building having value in the future, given recent interest in revitalizing the city’s downtown.

“I think you said it exactly right: It’s in the future,” Adkins answered. “That building does have some mechanical issues that we’re going to have to address, but there is room in that building, it’s got a fair amount of footprint.”

City offices could be put in the building, some of it could be rented out, “or we get a developer to use it for another purpose,” he said. “I think, yes, as time goes on it has more value.”

City officials have three options for the building, according to Adkins: sell it, either with or without a real-estate agent; “renovate it and use the space for city functions”; or “demolish and use it for green space or park space.”

Bohannon said he considered the transaction a good deal for Middletown: “It’s a good building in town, and it’s right where we want we want it to be, right next to our city building, so we can utilize it for things regarding the city. We can possibly make offices out of it and things like that, which would help us with our overcrowding we’ve got in the city building, so there’s a lot of different options we could go with. We could even put it out there for bid, and try to sell it to the general public.”

The council also approved six other other resolutions and ordinances Tuesday, each of them designated emergency legislation. Among them were:

·                       An ordinance for a $425,000 loan agreement with the Ohio Department of Transportation to build a two-lane access road from Union Road to the proposed AK Steel Research and Innovation Center and the paving of several roads;

·                       An ordinance allowing the city to spend $42,375 to rehabilitate production well No. 7, which in 1999 produced 4 million gallons per day but now provides about half that; and

·                       An ordinance that turns over to Butler County MetroParks its easement with the Miami Conservancy District, allowing the park system to assume control of Bicentennial Commons and the AK Pavilion.

 

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It appears the owner of 2 N Main and 1020 (old jobs building) is Cincinnati State while HEP-CSTCC OHIO LLC is the old Senior's Building----so HEP wasn't involved with old First National Blg....so it would appear.


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The CG&E building was sold to HEP and then HEP sold the building 4-28-2014 to Store Master Funding for 5.8 million dollars.

PARID: Q6511008000061
STORE MASTER FUNDING VI LLCN MAIN ST
Parcel

Parcel IdQ6511008000061
AddressN MAIN ST
ClassCOMMERCIAL
Land Use Code449, C - OFFICE BULD 3 OR MORE STORIES ELEVAT
Neighborhood90019001
Total Acres.2991
Taxing DistrictQ65
District NameMIDDLETOWN C CSD
Gross Tax Rate74.34
Effective Tax Rate74.153704
Non Business CreditN/A
Owner Occupied CreditN/A

CAUV & Agricultural District What is this?

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CAUVNO
Agricultural DistrictNO

Current Year Real Estate Taxes

TAX TYPEPrior YearFirst Half TaxSecond Half TaxTotal
Real Estate156,909.6882,793.0275,266.38314,969.08
Special Assessments560.36293.52266.841,120.72
Tot Payments-157,470.040.000.00-157,470.04
Total:0.0083,086.5475,533.22158,619.76

Owner and Legal


Taxbill Mailing Address Can I change my mailing address?

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Mailing Name 1STORE MASTER FUNDING VI LLC
Mailing Name 2C/O HEP-CSTCC OHIO LLC
Address 1101 DYER ST Suite 3-A
Address 2 
Address 3PROVIDENCE RI 02903

Sales

Sale DateSale Amount
28-APR-14$5,800,000
06-AUG-12
05-APR-11

Dwelling

Stories 
Gross Living Area 
Construction 
Total Rooms 
Bedrooms 
Year Built 
Finished Basement 

Current Value

Land (100%)$46,900
Building (100%)$5,753,100
Total Value (100%)$5,800,000
CAUV$0
Assessed Tax Year2015
Land (35%)$16,420
Building (35%)$2,013,590
Assessed Total (35%)$2,030,010

Incentive District Parcels What is this?

What is this?" border="0" width="100%">Parcel identifierValue TypevalueQ6511008000061Base Parcel5,800,000Total Value5,800,000
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Yep, old Adkins and company are doing a great job in the old investment area. Who wouldn't give a building away and then buy it back on pure speculation as to selling potential?

I noticed only token resistance from Tal Moon and Steve Bohannon. No itemized list from HEP as to the reasons for the asking price and some proof HEP incurred the 20 grand cost to justify the asking price. Naw, not important to old Adkins. Hell, it's just other people's money to throw around in their downtown pipe dream.

"“No, we have not seen any kind of an itemized list as to what the costs they have incurred over the last four years with the building,” he said.
“They just came to us and said, ‘We’ve got $20,000 tied up in it so far, and if you want it, if you’re willing to pay us back what we’ve got in it, then that’s what we’ll do for you,’ ” Bohannon said."

No big deal to old Bohannon nor any of the other rubber stampers. Heck, not even a question or comment for the record, just for a change of pace in council proceedings. And I thought the newby council members would actually offer a new approach....more party members voting in line with the Adkins diet of downtown sundries.

I like this....

"“Cincinnati State does not have have a future use for that building,” Adkins told members of council before their vote.
“It’s in our best interest to take that building back and protect that use,” he said"

"Protect that use"?......

What, did old Douggie think it might be bought by a "gentlemen's club" or a new house of ill repute might occupy their precious downtown and besmirch the inner sanctity of the Holy Land?...and, heaven forbid, right next to the city building fortress...

"City offices could be put in the building, some of it could be rented out, “or we get a developer to use it for another purpose,” he said. “I think, yes, as time goes on it has more value.”"

Has no value if no one is interested in it Douggie. Nothing does in real estate. We've all seen that concept with the Manchester and other buildings the city has purchased and then tried to dump when they wouldn't sell.
I'm so proud of my hometown and what it has become. Recall 'em all. Let's start over.
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