1997-09-29ECONOMIC & COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL
Members present:
Minutes
September 29, 1997
Chairman Joyce Golin, Vice-Chairman Bill Rodenbaugh, Sandra Reinecke,
Richard Mooney. Also present: City Planner Tina Cassidy, John and Joseph
Terra.
Chairman Golin calls the meeting to order at 6:30 p.m. She explains to members that it was not possible
for the Mayor or Dan Cummings to attend tonight's meeting, but informs members that both have been
invited to the next ECDC meeting on November 6th to discuss the future of Cummings Center. Instead,
John and Joseph Terra have been invited to the meeting this evening. They own TEECO Industrial
Controls, Inc. and are opening up a facility in Cummings Center. The Terms want to submit a Certified
Project application to the State. Cassidy explains that the Mass. Office of Business Development, which
will discuss the certified project application, has requested that all such application~ be filed with the
Planning Department and a vote of assent from the ECDC submitted as part of each certified project
application. Copies of the draft application are distributed to members for review.
Rodenbaugh asks several questions relative to the company's long-range expansion plans, and suggests
that the Terra make sure that the information provided on the creation of future jobs and total investment
is not too conservative. The applications should reflect the expected increase in personnel and total
investment. Rodenbaugh also suggests that the Terras check with the Mass. Office of Business
Development to make sure they will not need to refile certified project applications every year in the
absence of multi-year investment projections.
Members discuss the boilerplate wording of question #14. and suggest several amendments to the language
to more accurately reflect those initiatives of Cummings Properties that are directly connected to the EOA
applications. Staff will incorporate these amendments into all future certified project applications from
Cummings' tenants.
Reinecke:
motion to recommend that the Chairman sign the attached letter regarding the certified
project application of TEECO Industrial Controls, Inc., seconded by Mooney. All
members in favor, motion carries.
Next, Golin asks members if they have reviewed the draft minutes of the ECDC's August 11, 1997
meeting and asks if any changes shotrid be made to them prior to acceptance.
Mooney:
motion to approve the minutes of the ECDC's August 11, 1997 meeting as drafted.
seconded by Reinecke. All members in favor, motion carries.
Minutes of the ECDC
September 29, 1997
page two
Reinecke distributes copies of a September 22nd article that appeared in the Salem Evening News relative
to local efforts to encourage tourism. The articles outlines the creation of a corporation to manage the
Essex National Heritage Area and the marketing of the county to tourists. Members discuss the subject
and current efforts that the City of Beverly may be making in that area. Reinecke requests that Cassidy
check with Community Development Manager Dawn Goodwin to see if any grant funding may be
available for tourism initiatives; Golin suggests that staff contact the City of Peabody's planning
department on the subject, since that City may have used grant money for this purpose in the past.
Golin informs members that the next meeting of the ECDC will be on Thursday, November 6, 1997 at
6:30 p.m. in City Hall.
Reinecke: motion to adjourn, seconded by Rodenbaugh. All members in favor, motion carries.
Meeting is adjourned at 8:00 p.m~
EC'~NOMIC & COMMUNITy DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL
September 29, 1997
Massachusetts Office of Business Development
One Ashburton Place, Room 2101
Boston, MA 02108
liE: CERTIFIED PROJECT APPLICATION OF TEECO INDUSTRIAL CONTROLS,
INC.
Dear Sir/Madam:
This letter serves as an acknowledgement of the City of Beverly's receipt of the above-captioned
certified project application. The application discloses that this certified project will be located
within the existing Beverly Commerce Park Inc. Economic Oppommity Area designated by your
office on December 30, 1996. In connection with that designation, the City of Beverly entered
into a ten year Tax Increment Financing Agreement with Beverly Commerce Park, Inc.
Accordingly, TEECO Industrial Controls, Inc. will not be receiving any local property tax relief
from the City.
The application has been reviewed by the City's Planning Department and Economic and
Community Development Council (ECDC), and the ECDC has recommended that this certified
project application be submitted to your agency for consideration. If you have any questions with
respect to the co,'m'nunity's review process, please feel free to Contact Planning Director Tina
Cassidy at (978) 921-6000, ext. 173.
Respectfully,
~eeA. Golin
Chairman
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ECDC members
Mayor William F. ScanIon, Jr.
Mr. David Moynihan, Cummings Properties