14 November 2008
Macedonia Welcomes Girl Scouts
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Brian Lisik has the breaking news regarding the Girl Scouts of Northeast Ohio’s plans to relocate to a new building. This has been a soap opera since the council bought the building they want to occupy with the understanding that they would get a tax break since they’ll be bringing in new business to the area. The city council told them to hold their horses which put everyone in a lather until now.
After being tabled one meeting prior, City Council Thursday passed a controversial ordinance granting the city’s first Macedonia Occupancy Program tax deferment to the Girl Scouts of Northeast Ohio.
The Girl Scouts officially took occupancy of the former Norandex building on South Bedford Road – which the group has purchased for a reported $2.7 million – on the day of the Council vote. The new Girl Scout headquarters is expected to bring 65 jobs and a $3 million payroll to the city from its former headquarters on White Pond Drive in Akron.
As a non-profit organization, the Scouts will pay no property taxes. But the business is still expected to generate $60,000 per year in income tax revenue after another $60,000 in taxes is defered for eight years, a condition of the MOP.
Girl Scouts of Northeast Ohio Board of Directors member Frederick Cash said the deferment will have an immediate positive impact on the group’s efforts as it works to retrofit the former building-materials warehouse into the Scouts new home base.
“We have had plans to expand but what has been holding us back is not having a home,” Cash said. “Now we have a home. We will be good neighbors and good stewards of your investment.”
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Read the full story in the 11/20 issue of the Nordonia Hills Sun
Anyone else find it amusing that a guy named Cash is the spokesperson for this tax deferral matter? Good news for Macedonia and good news for the Girl Scouts in Ohio! Now, how can I get my town to defer my taxes. With this economy I feel like a non-profit, too. 
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13 August 2009 at 4:51 pm.
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