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Seneca County commissioners are planning to meet with Tiffin City Council members sometime next week to discuss the East Tower study, the board reported during its regular meeting Tuesday.
Commissioner Fred Zoeller said the county and city are stewards of taxpayer money and must understand the costs of using the Courthouse Square or East Tower as the site of a possible joint justice center.
Why should all of us in the Tiffin area be concerned about the quality of Tiffin's downtown, particularly about what goes on at the "center" of our community? It matters for all of us because, when people make best use of a city's center, it improves the quality of life and puts money in the pockets of almost everyone who lives in the community.
Andrew Kalnow explains: “There have been a number of rumors recently whirling rather wildly regarding the town Green, the East Tower as a JJC, and the various parties and factions involved. Here is what is true and what is false….”
It is 1000% FALSE that I have, or will, turn my back on citizen interest and efforts to preserve the Green.
The study does not really compare costs on an apple-to-apple basis, because:
January 21, 2015
The Advertiser-Tribune
By Brittany Cook - Staff Writer (bcook@advertiser-tribune.com)
Zoeller also requested changing the date to evaluate the East Tower study and the possibility of turning it into a joint justice facility.
Commissioners had agreed to make a decision on the justice center proposal by Feb. 10.
Since the study is expected to be done Jan. 28, Zoeller suggested moving the evaluation to Feb. 17, which would give commissioners time to consider study results.
The board approved the motion.
The study of the East Tower was commissioned by the SIEDC. I believe the study will be forthcoming rather soon (the next few weeks), but the people at SIEDC would be better able to answer that.
I suspect that some but not all questions will be answered by the study (which is typically the case, and is the case with the NCOR-cogs study).
