Attorney-fee invoices prove Hobart taxpayers ultimately paid all data-center professional and litigation costs.

What the reviewed record shows

Hobart Municipal Code Chapter 155 requires a developer seeking covered land-use or financing actions to execute a project-specific reimbursement agreement and deposit funds for actual attorney, engineering, technical, financial, advertising and recording costs. The 2026 fee schedule repeats that framework, and City minutes show reimbursement agreements being used on other developments. That creates a high-confidence probability that qualifying data-center review costs were covered by reimbursement arrangements. It does not, by itself, prove that every reported invoice, the cited $205,000 total or the City’s defense of the resident lawsuits was reimbursed. The Amazon-specific agreement, deposit records and payment ledger are still needed.

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