Cynthia Leis

• aedg
• paac
• dual-role
• records
• locus-of-control

How she appears in the record

Cynthia "Cindy" Leis occupies two seats at once in the Project BOSC corpus:

• President/CEO of the Allen Economic Development Group (AEDG) — she signs the Elida Local School District notice letters as AEDG President/CEO (leisc@aedg.org), and the PAAC board minutes track her rise from AEDG Business Development Director to President/CEO by August 2024.
• Executive Director of the Port Authority of Allen County (PAAC) — she signs the PAAC records policy in that capacity, and recurs throughout the board minutes reporting on the deal (e.g. 2026-03-30, tying the N. Cole Street roadway improvements to "the Google data center project").

Why the dual role matters

PAAC has no employees of its own; it must be administered by an external entity (records policy). With Leis serving as both AEDG President/CEO and PAAC Executive Director, the same individual sits on both sides of the front-end developer-information shield (R.C. 4582.58 — developer information routed through AEDG is treated as a non-record until the employer commits in writing) and the records custody for the public authority that approves the deal. That single locus of control over the econ-dev shield + records is the core of the records-completeness concern. See the memory note leis-aedg-paac-dual-role.

In the board minutes she describes roundabout phasing to objecting residents (2025-08-07), and the PAAC board invokes the R.C. 4582.58(B) trade-secret shield to enter executive session (2026-03-30) — the shield in active use.

Research status

Roles and the dual capacity are read directly from the cited extractions and are common-control plumbing and leads to verify — not statements about beneficial ownership or wrongdoing. To extend: confirm the exact AEDG/PAAC contractual administration arrangement and the dates of each appointment from primary records.