Committee recommends settlement with Middletown Medical Association, forwards two Saybrook Road tax-abatement ordinances to Common Council

The Office of General Counsel committee voted unanimously to recommend that the Common Council approve a settlement with the Middletown Medical Association and to forward two ordinances seeking tax abatements for properties at 430 and 440 Saybrook Road to the September Common Council meeting.

Attorney Smith told the committee there was “a resolution in your packet that sort of says that same thing we saw at EDC,” and that the resolution would recommend the settlement to the Council. Councilman Nocera moved to approve recommending the settlement; Councilwoman Salafia seconded the motion and the committee approved it by voice vote.

The committee then voted to move two separate ordinances — one for 430 Saybrook Road and one for 440 Saybrook Road — together to the Common Council for consideration. The Chair called the vote and members signified assent by saying “aye.” The Chair then thanked the outside counsel who had attended the executive-session discussion.

The action before the committee was limited to recommending the settlement and referring the ordinances to the full Common Council; no ordinance adoption or final council action took place at this meeting. The full council will take up the resolution and the two tax-abatement ordinances at its September meeting.