Showing posts with label TIF study commission. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TIF study commission. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Important TIF Changes Make It Into Law

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I'm really late to this news, but thanks to Thomas Heller out of Columbus, IN, I do finally have it. This past Legislative Session act...
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012

What's Going On With TIFs?

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For the second consecutive meeting of the Metropolitan and Economic Development committee, the Mid-North TIF ( prop 291 ) was postponed - no...
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Friday, September 28, 2012

Matt Tully - Wrong on TIFs - Not Just Merely Wrong; Most Sincerely Wrong

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There is no doubt the IndyStar columnist, Matt Tully, is a talented writer.  As a person, Tully's opinion is of no more importance than ...
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Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Dust Up - For Reasons Unknown, But I Speculate Anyway

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I have the greatest admiration for Councillor Brian Mahern, but last night he flubbed. The Rules committee began their consideration of Pr...
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Finally - TIF Study Commission Recommendations At Committee

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The TIF Study Commission did extraordinary work - and its knowledge base should be used by each and every Councillor in order to do what is ...
Thursday, September 20, 2012

Mid-North TIF - Developer Driven and Sans Critical Financial Details

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A letter to the editor in yesterday's Star , signed by Councillor John Barth and leaders of a number of Mid-North Neighborhood Associati...
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Sunday, September 16, 2012

First Do No Harm - Impact of TIFs - Wayne Township

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In my last two posts I mentioned the fairy tales that are promulgated in order to sell TIF districts. In case you are reading this entry be...

First Do No Harm - Impact of TIFs - Center Township & IPS

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In my last post I mentioned the fairy tales that are promulgated in order to sell TIF districts.  First, the taxes that flow from the distri...

First Do No Harm - Impact of TIFs - Marion County As a Whole

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Many people in positions of power in the County prefer to sell the vision that TIFs create 'found money' that would not have existed...
Tuesday, August 28, 2012

What's Wrong With This Picture? - The Proposed Mass Ave TIF

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Prop 15 proposes two expansions of the consolidated downtown TIF district.  A westward expansion of 604 acres, and an eastward expansion of ...
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Big Time Bailouts of Indy's TIFs

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The budgets for the last four cycles - from 2010 through the proposed 2013 annual City-County budgets, show massive taxpayer bailouts of mos...
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Tuesday, August 7, 2012

TIF Study Commission Recommendation # 5 - Public Access To TIF Accounting

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For my fifth choice of a common sense recommendation from the TIF Study Commission, I am bundling a couple of items that are meant to 'e...
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Monday, August 6, 2012

TIF Study Recommendation #4 - Council Vote On Excess TIF Revenues

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The fourth of what I view as a common sense recommendation of the TIF Study Commission is the one requiring approval by the City-County Coun...
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Friday, August 3, 2012

TIF Study Commission Recommendation # 3 : Upfront Criteria and Justification For Creating TIF

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My third choice for common sense recommendation of the TIF Study Commission is that there should be a clearly defined evaluation process tha...
Tuesday, July 31, 2012

TIF Study Commission Recommendation # 2 : Protect Taxpayer Investment With Clawback Provisions

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My second choice for common sense recommendation of the TIF Study Commission is providing claw backs in the agreement with the chosen develo...
Friday, July 27, 2012

TIF Study Commission Recommendation # 1 : All TIFs Should Have An End Date

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I am going to spend some blog time posting what I think are the most significant recommendations of the  TIF Study Commission.  As always, c...
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Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Indy Star Editorial Dead Wrong - More Information Needed to Substantiate TIF Expansion

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The Indy Star Editorial Board wants you, Mr. and Ms. Taxpayer, and the City-County Council to buy a pig in a poke.  Not just any pig, mind y...
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Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Misinformation About TIFs Continue

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I understand that the side bars in newspaper articles are supposed to quickly convey the high points of the longer article.  But the sidebar...
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Saturday, July 21, 2012

Councillor Mahern Hits Homerun at Today's McANA Meeting

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Councillor Brian Mahern, who conceived of and served on the TIF Study Commission, was McANA's guest speaker this morning.  He did an abs...
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Thursday, July 19, 2012

TIF Study Commission - TIF FAQs

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The recently concluded TIF Study Commission has posted a very impressive document summarizing the findings of the Commission as well as reco...
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