Trustee: Developer's proposal equals local bailout  Bainbridge
Township Trustee Chairman Matt Lynch was visibly taken aback
when a local developer asked for $600,000 in income tax revenue
to support his financially troubled shopping center.  "Matt
McGill told me it's to hold up the bankruptcy of that center,"
Lynch said Monday night after McGill made the request at
Monday's trustees' meeting.  "It's never been done in the state
of Ohio before, and maybe not in the country before," Lynch, an
attorney, said. "It's the blurring of the line between
government and private companies."   When asked whether he
considered the proposal a bailout, Lynch said, "I think it is."
McGill Property Group, developers of two shopping centers, one
on the north side and the other on the south side of Aurora Road
near the old Geauga Lake, submitted a request to trustees for a
Joint Economic Development District, a three-way agreement among
his company, the city of Aurora, and Bainbridge Township for the
southern center.  Part of t