The Chelsea City Council unanimously approved the sale of the old police building at 104 E. Middle St. for $50,000 Monday night. Nov. 4, and set a closing date for the purchase of Jan. 7, 2014.
No parking spaces were included in the terms of the sale to Willem A.S. Van Reesema and Joseph E. Ziolkowski.
City Council also unanimously approved a Monday, Dec. 2 public hearing date and review of a series of four industrial facilities tax (IFT) exemptions requested by Chelsea Milling Company (Jiffy Mix) for both personal and real property.
Included in the requests are:
* $1.24 million for a new automated bag packaging line for the company’s institutional and food services business.
* $410,488 for a new mixer for the company’s 50-pound bag line
* $647,000 in real property and about $2.9 million in personal property for the construction of ingredient storage tanks.
* About $844,000 in real property and about $1.82 million in personal property for new equipment for flour and mixing of different flavors of the company’s product.
City Manager John Hanifan explained that there would be four separate public hearings and reviews for the requested IFT’s that equated to “a considerable amount of investment in the city.”
A more thorough discussion of each request is expected during those public hearings.
Setting this 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 unanimously approved was the appointment of Nick Helmholdt to the city’s Planning Commission to replace Jeff Blazok who moved out of Chelsea.
