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Commissioners consider county-funded legal support to help communities form TIF districts for workforce housing

5762582 · August 5, 2025
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Ashley Epling proposed that the county solicit a single legal counsel to draft tax-increment financing (TIF) enabling language for multiple Williams County communities, and asked the commissioners whether they would contribute to the cost so smaller villages could move faster on workforce housing.

Ashley Epling asked the Williams County Board of Commissioners on Thursday to authorize research into retaining legal counsel to draft and standardize tax-increment financing (TIF) district documents for multiple communities in the county. "I have proposed, I could do some research and find legal counsel that could come into the communities and help them write the legislation and the resolutions for their TIF districts," Epling said. "And then based on what that cost was, the commissioners could support that cost for…

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