Chuck employee Cynthia Jackson and your wife live in the farm house at TJ Evans Family Park, allow you to live there for five years from April 1 in exchange for maintenance and labor to the park, in addition to paying $ 1 per month to rent the facility.

NEWARK — A residential lease agreement between the city and a city parks employee triggered many questions but few answers that satisfied city officials.

City Council’s Service Committee discussed a five-year contract between the city of Newark and Chuck Jackson, special events coordinator for the city, that allows Jackson to live in the farm house at T.J. Evans Family Park.

The agreement, signed by former Service Director Dan Coffman on April 1, provides a lease of the house, garage and 1 acre of land surrounding to Chuck and Cynthia Jackson in exchange for at least 40 hours per month of maintenance, labor and material costs for the park.

Jackson must pay $1 per month to rent the facility and, if he does not provide the monthly work report, must pay $800 in rent. The city pays the water, sewer, gas and electric bills.

New Service Director David Rhodes explained the arrangement to council but made it clear he does not endorse the contract.

“It’s not a contract I would have entered into or one the law director wrote, but it is a legal contract,” Rhodes said. “It’s my opinion the city should not be in the landlord business.”

Jamie Kornokovich, the assistant law director, said the law director’s office was not involved in the negotiation or preparation of the… continue reading

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