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Moorhead officials report mixed 2025 legislative results; TIF extension and partial flood mitigation funding noted
Summary
City staff summarized the 2025 Minnesota legislative session outcomes relevant to Moorhead, including a 5-year to 10-year tax increment financing extension, $9 million statewide for flood mitigation (allocation to Moorhead pending), and other local program outcomes.
Lisa Bodie, the city's governmental affairs director, told the Moorhead Economic Development Authority that the 2025 legislative session and a subsequent special session produced mixed results for Moorhead's priorities.
Bodie said the Legislature approved a five-year rule extension for tax increment financing that will allow Moorhead to capture incremental tax revenue for 10 years instead of five to help repay downtown demolition and infrastructure investments. "It gives people more time," she said.
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