UPDATE: CORRECTION - Today 4/19/17 I received the Lease pursuant to a FOIL request.....the Oneida Dispatch article was incorrect...the rent is $ 313,000 per YEAR not per month. Unfortunately, no one from the County took the time to correct this error.
From the Oneida Dispatch....here is a summary of the latest, April 11, Madison Co. Board of Supervisors monthly meeting. See link below to read entire article. Includes my comments as well.
Please note the great deal the county is giving to the OWNER of the TEMPORARY courthouse..$300,000 PER MONTH!! and we understand one of the owners is the EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Of the MADISON CO IDA? Was that disclosed? Only found out by digging...more to come on that topic...awaiting response from COUNTY ATTORNEY, & MARK SCIMONE.
The Board passed the following resolutions,
1. The board also made official its plans for accommodating the county courthouse while renovations are being made. The county will lease space in the former Oneida Limited administration building on Kenwood Avenue in Oneida, now owned by Kenwood Community Properties. the county will pay more than $300,000 a month PLUS $800,000 for renovations to use the 26,128 square foot space. [ That works out to OVER $3.6 MILLION per Year or $137 per SQUARE FOOT PER YEAR...or $11.48 psf/month. For a building in a HIGH RISK FLOOD AREA. We are awaiting confirmation of the details from the COUNTY that the Executive Director of the Madison Co.IDA is one of the owners. Mr. Salka is on the IDA Board..maybe he can confirm.]
2. The Board of Supervisors enacted measures to temporarily pay some employees’ health insurance premiums for the next 5-10 months!!! [ including Supervisor Salka's] ...after "discovering" a $1.6 million surplus in the county’s self-insured health insurance reserve fund. [ RATHER THAN SET ASIDE FOR THE FUTURE...ANOTHER FREEBEE FROM THE HOLD THE PURSE STRINGS at expense of TAXPAYERS....HYPOCRITS!!!]
3. The board also introduced a local law that would ban the use of plastic single-use carryout bags. A public hearing is scheduled on the proposal at the board’s May 9 meeting. [STORE OWNERS & VENDORS BEWARE -- Significant penalties.]
4. The board approved an agricultural economic development loan to Empire Farmstead Brewing for $47,916. The loan will allow the company to create two full-time positions within two years.
[Yes, you read it right.....talk about swamp deals!]
5. For the first time, the board approved of the inclusion of tires in local community clean-up programs. The county allows municipalities to throw away up to 25 tons of trash collected by community groups from roadways, streams, parks and public areas a year as part of those programs. Now, tires can be included in that waste.
See FULL STORY AT:
http://www.oneidadispatch.com/general-news/20170411/madison-county-mulling-single-use-plastic-bag-ban
