The Board of Aldermen perfected Board Bill 19, a floor substitute to establish the Jefferson Arms Community Improvement District (CID) and to authorize related project agreements, after sponsors updated outdated blight language and removed references to a linked Transportation Development District (TDD).

The bill was on the perfection calendar after earlier deliberations and a floor substitute. The alderman from the fourteenth, the bill’s floor sponsor, explained that the substitute removes TDD references so the measure would be a CID only and updates “blight language” in the ordinance to reflect current state standards.

"So what the floor substitute does is it actually updates the blight language in section 8...and we removed all references from any TDD," the alderman from the fourteenth said on the floor, adding the change was intended to "make it clean" and to allow a TDD to be pursued later, if needed.

The floor substitute was adopted on a voice vote with one recorded 'no' from the alderwoman from the first. The sponsor then moved to perfect the floor substitute; the board voted to perfect the substitute and the clerk recorded the motion carried. The transcript shows the floor substitute was adopted and the bill placed on the calendar for final passage.

The ordinance text read on the floor describes the CID, finds a public purpose for its establishment, authorizes execution of a transportation project agreement between the city and Jefferson Arms Transportation Development District (TDD), and contains emergency and severability clauses. The floor substitute removed references that would have coupled the CID and TDD in a single ordinance.

Discussion versus decision: discussion focused on statutory blight language and procedural timing for public notice for changes; decision was adoption of the floor substitute and perfection of the bill for final passage.