KENDALLVILLE â With some help from other city boards providing $1 million in tax dollars, Kendallville City Council members are more comfortable with borrowing the remainder to fund a new solar field on the site of the former McCray Refrigerator factory.
The city is now looking at a five-year financing plan that shouldnât impact local taxes or wastewater fees, meaning residents wonât need to provide anything extra to afford the green energy development.
City council members received an update about possible financing options for the project during their meeting Tuesday evening.
The proposed solar field would take up most of the 11-acre McCray site off Wayne Street, one block west of Main Street, stretching from the west end of the property all the way to Mill Street.
STROH â When the sun goes down, it used to get pretty dark on the streets around Stroh.
Now, thanks to a group of Stroh business owners, many of whom are members of the recently formed Stroh Community Improvement League, new bright overhead street lights have popped up on utility poles around town, lighting up Stroh.
More than a dozen new overhead streetlights burn bright each night lighting up town, and no one is happier to see those lights come on than Eric Perkins, chairman of the community league.
âItâs pretty cool,â he said.
The league was born about two years ago, formed at the request of Bruce Bowman, the township trustee. Stroh was entitled to a share of the money collected in a local Economic Development Income Tax fund, but without a not-for-profit group like the Stroh Community Improvement League leading the way, it was hard to tap into those funds to make improvements around town.
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Itâs an effort that other communities in northeast Indiana could consider copying.
In June 2019, when Kendallville announced the launch of a new blight-elimination effort, one of the key pieces of that effort was the establishment of Kendallville Restorations Inc., a non-profit that would work to purchase at-risk properties in key neighborhoods and fund work to fix up the homes and resell them to new, caring owners.
Since then, Kendallville Restorations has been working quietly to improve houses along the Main Street corridor in some of Kendallvilleâs older neighborhoods.
More recently, however, the group teamed up with the building trades students enrolled at Impact Institute and allowed those trades students to get involved with ongoing work at two improvement projects happening.
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