Shambaugh Cleaning and Restoration awarded tax abatement - Mansfield News Journal
The Richland County commissioners are giving a boost to a local company that helps people recover from their worst days. The board voted at its meeting on Tuesday to approve an application for an enterprise zone tax abatement that will provide a 50% property tax reduction for 10 years on a major addition to Shambaugh Cleaning and Restoration on Home Road in Ontario.
The proposed abatement is for a 4,800-square-foot building that will cost an estimated $500,000 and create another line for the company's cleaning and restoration service. As part of the agreement, the company is planning to create 15 to 20 more jobs over the next three years. The company currently employs 35 people.
CEO and President Jeremy Shambaugh told commissioners that the company serves 19 counties and already has outgrown the facility it moved into a little over one year ago. He said the new building will be used as a facility to process restorable contents of buildings damaged by water or fire.
"While the homeowner is displaced, we can take all their stuff out and clean it, restore it so when the house is done we move them all back in." Shambaugh said. "Those projects are usually long and tedious — usually a year or more — so when they need a place to put all that stuff, we clean it and then warehouse it."
Operations Manager Bill Mellick pointed out that the firm also does victim assistance with things such as a hotel or food.
Shambaugh Restoration also does commercial work and recently was involved with a 50,000-square-foot building in Fredericktown that was damaged by a fire.
The company was started by Shambaugh's father, Paul, in 1985 as a carpet cleaning company. Jeremy bought the company in 1999, telling commissioners that it "morphed" into a restoration company following major flooding in Shelby in 2007.
"We still do a lot of carpet cleaning and duct cleaning but helping people after one of their worst days of their lives is petty gratifying," Shambaugh said.
Commissioners approve additional elevator repair work
In other business, commissioners approved an $1,800 quote from Davis and Newcomer Elevator Company to expedite the repair of elevator circuit boards in the county courthouse/administration building. Problems with the boards have left the building without elevator service.
Last month the board voted to approve a contract with TK Elevator Corporation of Westerville to repair and modernize the building's east and west elevators using $641,281 in American Rescue Plan Act funds to pay for the work.
Commissioners on Tuesday also voted to:
- Appoint Jordon Wurthmann to a seven-year term on the Richland County Mental Health and Recovery Services board beginning July 1.
- Accept the resignation of an employee at the Child Support Enforcement Agency.
- Approve a one-year renewal of a contract for the North Central Ohio Educational Service Center to lease space at the county's Longview Building.
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