WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE, Ohio — The Fayette County Board of Commissioners will take up outside counsel for changes to the county’s development agreement with Amazon Web Services when it meets Monday, according to the board’s published agenda.
The agenda for the Nov. 2 regular meeting lists, under new business, engaging the law firm Bricker Graydon Wyatt LLP “in modifying the development agreement with AWS.” The agenda does not say what changes are contemplated. AWS has said it plans to invest $5 billion by 2030 in a data center campus in Fayette County near Interstate 71 and U.S. Route 35, in the Jeffersonville area, near the Honda and LG Energy Solution battery plant. The commissioners previously approved a community reinvestment area agreement for the project.
The board’s AWS item comes six weeks after commissioners voted Sept. 21 to impose a one-year moratorium on new data center development in seven Fayette County townships — Concord, Green, Jasper, Madison, Marion, Paint and Perry — while the county finishes an update of its comprehensive land use plan. Projects already authorized are exempt from the freeze.
Also on Monday’s agenda is a 10:30 a.m. bid opening for Fayette County Transfer Station waste hauling and disposal, and a vote on whether to raise the Planning Commission board member rate from $12 to $25 per meeting.
The remaining new business includes a review of an estimate from Purvis Brothers Inc. for aviation fuel filter upgrades at the Fayette County Airport, authorization to sell a surplus 1986 Ford F700 fuel truck at the airport, a memorandum of agreement between the Fayette County Sheriff’s Office and the South Central Ohio Regional Juvenile Detention Center for meal preparation, final quotes from Enterprise Fleet Management for the county engineer’s office, and a quote from Silco Fire & Security to combine previous agreements.
The commissioners meet at their office at 133 South Main Street, Suite 401, in Washington Court House. The agenda is subject to change, according to the board.
