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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the County of Chautauqua Industrial Development Agency (the “Agency”) will hold a public hearing on June 17, 2021, at 9:30 a.m., local time, from the offices of the Agency, 201 West Third Street, Suite 115, City of Jamestown, County of Chautauqua, New York, pursuant to Section 859-a of the General Municipal Law, as amended (the “Act”). The purpose of the public hearing is to provide an opportunity for all interested parties to present their views with respect to the “Project” and the “Financial Assistance” (as such terms are defined below).
SHERIDAN CSG 2 LLC, a limited liability company duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of New York (the “Applicant”), presented an application for financial assistance (the “Application”) to the Agency, which Application requested that the Agency consider undertaking a project (the “Project”) consisting of the following: (A)(1) the acquisition of an interest in a parcel of land located at 3323 Werle Road, Town of Sheridan, Chautauqua County, New York (collectively, the “Land”), (2) the acquisition, construction, installation, and equipping on an approximately 44 acre portion of the Land of: (i) solar photovoltaic modules mounted on a racking system supported by driven posts, (ii) switchboards, inverters and transformers, (iii) underground and overhead electrical lines and poles, (iv) fencing, (v) a concrete pad, and (vi) a system of access roads, landscaping and related improvements to the Land (collectively, the “Improvements”), and (3) the acquisition and installation of certain machinery and equipment necessary for the completion thereof (the “Equipment” and together with the Land and the Improvements, collectively, the “Project Facility”), all of the foregoing for use by the Applicant and/or its affiliates as a solar-powered electrical generation facility consisting of a 4.125MW A/C array; (B) the granting of certain “financial assistance” (within the meaning of Section 854(14) of the General Municipal Law) with respect to the foregoing; and (C) the lease (with an obligation to purchase), license or sale of the Project Facility to the Applicant or such other entity(ies) as may be designated by the Applicant and agreed upon by the Agency.
The Project Facility would be initially owned, operated and/or managed by the Applicant (or such other designated entity(ies)).
The Applicant (or such other designated entity(ies)) would receive financial assistance from the Agency in the form of potential exemptions or partial exemptions from real property taxes and sales and use taxes (collectively, the “Financial Assistance”).
Because of the restrictions on meetings and gatherings in effect pursuant to Executive Orders issued by the Governor of the State of New York, the public hearing will be held via Zoom meeting and telephone conference call rather than a public hearing open for the public to attend in person.
A representative of the Agency will hear and accept any comments that are made orally at the above-stated time. Members of the public may view or listen to the public hearing and provide their comments during the public hearing by logging into the following website and/or using the following dial-in information:
Topic: Sheridan CSG 2 Public Hearing
Time: Jun 17, 2021 09:30 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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Comments may also be submitted to the Agency in writing or electronically to: strandbr@chqgov.com.
A representative of the Agency will provide a report or reasonable summary of all such comments to the Agency’s members.
Subject to applicable law, copies of the Application, including an analysis of the costs and benefits of the Project, are available for review by the public online at www.ccida.com.
The public hearing will be streamed on the Agency’s website in real-time and a recording of the public hearing will be posted on the Agency’s website, all in accordance with Section 857 of the New York General Municipal Law, as amended.
Dated: June 1, 2021
COUNTY OF CHAUTAUQUA INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY
By: Richard E. Dixon
Chief Financial Officer
Additional Files:
SHERIDAN CSG 2 LLC – Application
SHERIDAN CSG 2 LLC – Notice of Proposed Deviation from Uniform Tax Exemption Policy and Guidelines