The Chelsea City Council will meet tonight, Monday, Nov. 4 on a new day at 7 p.m. in the council chambers of the new police station.
This is will also be the final meeting of the current City Council members as Council Member Ann Feeney chose not to run for re-election and the only seat not up for election is the one held by Rod Anderson.
There are eight action items on the agenda.
First up, is a reconsideration of the terms of the sale of the old police building at 104 E. Middle St. The City Council is expected to discuss accepting $50,000 straight up with no parking spaces included, which was one of several options offered by the potential buyers — Willem A.S. Van Reesema and Joseph E. Ziolkowski. If accepted, the proposed motion also includes a Jan. 7, 2014 closing date for the deal.
The next item is a discussion of Chelsea becoming a “Solar Ready Development Community” which would help the city, which is a public power community, meet the state’s mandates for energy efficiency and renewal energy goals.
The City Council will also consider setting a public hearing date of Monday, Dec. 2, for four industrial facilities tax (IFT) exemptions requested by Chelsea Milling Company (Jiffy Mix) for both personal and real property.
Included in the request is an IFT for $1.24 million for a new automated bag packaging line for the company’s institutional and food services business. The second request is for a new mixer for the company’s 50-pound bag line in the amount of $410,488. The third IFT request is for about $647, 000 in real property and about $2.9 million in personal property for the construction of ingredient storage tanks. The fourth request is for about $844,000 in personal property and about $1.82 million in personal property for new equipment for flour and mixing of different flavors of the company’s product.
Setting the public hearing date is the first of several steps involved in the possible approval of the four tax exemption requests related to the company’s move into “a food service and institutional business,” according to the agenda item.
Also up for consideration is the appointment of Nick Helmholdt to the city’s Planning Commission, the purchase of additional city trash bags, street dedications in the Heritage Pointe subdivision, an upgrade for a city well pump and a request for a piece of trenching equipment for the city’s Electric Department.
