Pictured from left to right: councilmembers, Ben Redman, Kim Chamberland, City Manager, Michael Doss, Mayor Lisa Evans, Law Director, Bryan Pancheo, Vice-Mayor, Sandy Russell, councilmembers, Kyle Mitchell and Kristopher Parrish.
On June 18, Milford City Council met in executive session to further consider the compensation of the city manager, Michael Doss, contract.
Kristopher Parrish, administrative services chairperson, addressed to council the importance of maintaining an up to date municipal code to provide the Milford community with the most accurate information to have at their disposal.
“To ensure the City of Milford’s ordinances are always consistent, well-organized and easily accessible to our community, a municipal code is regularly updated by codification experts,” Jackie Bain, clerk of council, said. “By updating the information yearly, the city is guaranteeing that constituents, officials, business owners, developers, law enforcement and others will have a resource they can depend on to properly follow and enforce our laws.”
Parrish then introduced to council an ordinance authorizing the rebate of property tax to Beauty Ridge, LLC, doing business as Little Miami Brewing Company, Terra Firma Company, LLC, doing business as LMBC Event Center, P3K2P, LLC, doing business as Tru by Hilton and SAS Hospitality, LLC, doing business as Staybridge Suites.
Finance Director, Pat Wirthlin, said the city provides certain incentives to spur economic development and attract and attain good jobs. The city’s property tax rebate incentive is one such initiative to encourage successful businesses to locate within the city.
Wirthlin discussed a list of amendments of the 2023 budget appropriation, where total increases amount to $106,767. Council decided that the law director create an ordinance to determine to either increase or decrease the individual appropriations for the above businesses.
The second half of the 2022 tax rebates, payable in the second half of 2023, amount to approximately $84,000. In April of this year, the city distributed the first half of the payments to businesses.
Council then discussed how the remaining amount for the second half of the 2022 tax rebates will be distributed to the above businesses.
The committee agreed for the law director to prepare a series of ordinances to authorize the rebate of property taxes to Beauty Ridge, LLC, to the amount of $10,467.17, Terra Firma Company, LLC, to the amount of $9,249.27, P3K2P to the amount of $39,661.66, SAS Hospitality, LLC, to the amount of $24,850.54 for the second half of the 2022 taxes.