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City of Sidney Resolution No. 82-25 — authorizing the City Manager to enter into an Income Tax Sharing Agreement with the Sidney City Schools and Upper Valley Career Center Boards of Education regarding the Community Reinvestment Area tax abatement for Amazon Data Services, Inc., passed 2025-10-27
2025-10-27-res-82-25-income-tax-sharing
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City of Sidney Resolution No. 82-25 — authorizing the City Manager to enter into an Income Tax Sharing Agreement with the Sidney City Schools and Upper Valley Career Center Boards of Education regarding the Community Reinvestment Area tax abatement for Amazon Data Services, Inc., passed 2025-10-27
resolution_no
82-25
body
Council of the City of Sidney, Ohio
body_kind
city_council
subject_matter
revenue_sharing
adopted
2025-10-27
title_verbatim
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ENTER INTO AN INCOME TAX SHARING AGREEMENT WITH THE SIDNEY CITY SCHOOLS AND UPPER VALLEY CAREER CENTER BOARDS OF EDUCATION REGARDING COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT AREA TAX ABATEMENT FOR AMAZON DATA SERVICES, INC.
outcome
approved
statute
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operative_text_verbatim
SECTION 1. That the City Manager be and he is hereby authorized and directed to enter into an Income Tax Sharing Agreement with the Sidney City Schools and Upper Valley Career Center Boards of Education regarding a CRA Tax Abatement for Amazon Data Services, Inc.
beneficiary_named
Amazon Data Services, Inc.
signatories
—
journal_pages
- 0345
- 0346
counterparties
- Sidney City Schools Board of Education
- Upper Valley Career Center Board of Education
relationship_to_81_25
- note [verified] TWO SEPARATE INSTRUMENTS, PASSED THE SAME DAY, TO THE SAME TWO BOARDS. 81-25 authorizes a DEVELOPMENT agreement; 82-25 authorizes an INCOME TAX SHARING agreement. Their titles are otherwise near-identical, which makes them easy to conflate — they are not alternates or a re-passage, and a citation to one is not a citation to the other.
vote
- roll_call_recorded yes
- outcome_recorded yes
- verbatim Councilmember VanMatre made a motion to adopt Resolution No. 82-25 as presented; seconded by Councilmember Roddy. A roll call vote was taken: Barhorst: yes; Huelskamp: yes; Milligan: yes; Roddy: yes; Thurber: no; VanMatre: yes; Wagner: no. Motion passed. Resolution No. 82-25 is hereby adopted.
- moved_by Councilmember Jenny VanMatre
- seconded_by Councilmember Scott Roddy
- result passed 5-2
- roll_call
- member Mike Barhorst
- role Mayor
- vote yes
- member Cory Huelskamp
- role Councilmember
- vote yes
- member Mardie Milligan
- role Councilmember
- vote yes
- member Scott Roddy
- role Councilmember
- vote yes
- member Darryl Thurber
- role Councilmember
- vote no
- member Jenny VanMatre
- role Councilmember
- vote yes
- member Steve Wagner
- role Vice Mayor
- vote no
- dissent_note ⚠️ THE ONLY DIVIDED VOTE IN THE CHAIN. Five of the six resolutions behind this campus passed unanimously; this one — the income-tax-sharing agreement with Sidney City Schools and Upper Valley Career Center — drew NO votes from Councilmember Thurber and Vice Mayor Wagner. The minutes journal the seven names for this item and only this item, which is why the divided vote is legible at all: the same clerk records an uncontested item as "passed unanimously" with no names. The minutes record no stated reason for either NO vote. [open]
- roll_call_provenance ⚠️ TWO LINES OF THE SAME PAGE, and they carry different things. The SURNAME and the VOTE of each entry above are the roll-call line's own — it reads "Barhorst: yes; Huelskamp: yes; Milligan: yes; Roddy: yes; Thurber: no; VanMatre: yes; Wagner: no" and carries no first name and no title. The FIRST NAMES and the ROLES are taken from the ATTENDANCE ROLL earlier on the same page ("Mayor Mike Barhorst presiding", "Vice Mayor Wagner", and the councilmember list), not from the roll call. Recorded because the two are different reads and a consumer must be able to tell which part of an entry came from which line.
- name_transcription_note The OCR of that attendance roll renders "Darryl Thurber" as "Darryl! Thurber" and the City Planner as both "Hursyz" and "Hurysz" on the same page. "Darryl" is given above in its ordinary spelling and the artifact is recorded here rather than silently dropped; the surnames need no such note because the roll-call line reads them cleanly.
- source
- file data/documents/sidney/council/City Council Minutes October 27, 2025.pdf
- content_verified ocr
what_this_instrument_does_not_establish
- No rate, no term, no revenue figure and no allocation between the two boards appears in this resolution. Those are terms of the executed agreement (#1380). Do not cite this act for them.
⚠ Gaps in the record
- Clean native text layer, no OCR; the embedded font substitutes some letter pairs elsewhere on the page. This instrument contains no figures.
Where it connects
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