County weighs adding residential properties to enterprise zones
Scott Cousins, scousins@thetelegraph.com
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EDWARDSVILLE A proposed expansion and change to Madison County’s Southwestern Madison County Enterprise Zone has led to sharp disagreement over whether to include residential development.
The Madison County Board’s Grants Committee last week discussed several proposed changes, including adding territory, extending tax abatement time periods to 10 from four years and including residential development.
Enterprise zones offer incentives to developers, primarily in the form of property and sales tax incentives, investment tax credit, machinery and equipment sales tax exemptions and a utility tax exemption.
County appoints two new department heads
Scott Cousins, scousins@thetelegraph.com
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EDWARDSVILLE Two new department heads were approved Wednesday by a divided Madison County Board.
Adam Walden was approved as Madison County engineer, replacing Mark Gvillo, who retired in November. Michael Bold was named the county’s facilities director, taking over from Rob Schmidt, who left to work for the Madison County Transit District in July.
Voting against both appointments were Democratic board members Michael “Doc” Holliday and Bruce Malone of Alton, Matt King of East Alton, Chris Hankins of Pontoon Beach, Jack Minner of Edwardsville, Nick Petrillo of Granite City and Gussie Glasper of Madison.
Board Chairman Kurt Prenzler said the items included canned goods and non-perishable foods.
He said that because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the annual door-to-door Scouting for Food collection event could not take place this year. Tina Barnard, a board member with the Glen-Ed Food Pantry, contacted the county and asked if they would be interested in holding a food drive.
“We didn’t hesitate to say yes,” Prenzler stated in a press release. “Employees did an outstanding job.”
Prenzler and County Board member Erica Conway-Harriss of Glen Carbon delivered the items to the Glen-Ed Food Pantry on Dec. 17 with help from the Facilities Department employees.