BATH TWP.: Trustees recently approved a motion to sell a portion of township-owned property at 1070-1080 Ghent Road — the former Jimbo’s property — to Michael Maghes for $475,000.
Maghes is in the food service business, operating the food truck Cafe Arnone, township Administrator Vito Sinopoli said. Trustees voted to sell the land at their Dec. 27 meeting.
“Although his plans for the Jimbo’s site have not been finalized, Mr. Maghes indicated an interest in creating a fixed-base operation for his food service business,” Sinopoli said in an email.
Bath purchased the triangle-shaped parcel, framed on two sides by Ghent and Cleveland-Massillon roads, almost six years ago for $316,500 from BP Exploration and Oil Co. The parcel, which is currently zoned B-1 (business), was 2.14 acres, but only 1.2 acres are to be sold in the Maghes transaction.
Sinopoli said Bath will keep about one-quarter acre of the property for green space near the intersection and the remainder will be reserved for future turn lanes on Ghent and Cleveland-Massillon roads.
In other business, trustees authorized an employment contract extension with Sinopoli from Jan. 1, 2017, through Dec. 31, 2019.
Sinopoli became Bath’s second administrator on April 1, 2013. This is the first extension of the initial contract, which expired Dec. 31.
He will be paid $98,592 for the first year of the new agreement; pay for the second and third years will be decided annually. The contract includes the right for Sinopoli to negotiate terms of employment for an additional three-year, three-month period of employment before the conclusion of the extension.