An Appeal has been filed concerning the proposed City of Golden in northern Miami County. The County Commission voted 3-1 against Incorporation of Golden at a recent meeting. According to the Mimi County Republic, Jennifer Williams, who filed a Petition April 9 to Incorporate about nine square miles north of Hillsdale Lake into a City to block the march of intermodal warehouses into Miami County, in named as one of the Plaintiffs in the case, along with Golden supporter Charlie Koch. Williams says the Appeal was filed last Friday and the County is requiring a $5,000 Bond to accompany her Petition to Appeal.
She says the Clerk’s Office was instructed not to accept her Petition to Appeal if it did not include the $5,000. She says her attorney agreed the amount was unreasonable and a nominal amount of $100 is all that is usually charged. She says the large bond appears to be designed to deep them from filing an Appeal. Miami County Counselor Shelley Woodard would not comment.
