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Council budget briefing: TIFA to fund $3.6 million Taylor golf renovations; short-term closures expected
Summary
City staff told council that Taylor’s two municipal golf courses will get major capital work paid largely from the Tax Increment Finance Authority (TIFA), including bunker and irrigation upgrades. Officials said the work will require temporary closures and is budgeted in TIFA’s prior-year appropriation.
Taylor’s golf operations will undergo a major rebuilding paid largely from the city’s TIFA fund, officials said at the council budget workshop.
City staff told council that the largest item is a bunker renovation and irrigation work at Taylor’s municipal courses, a project they estimated at roughly $3,600,000. Alec (golf course director) said the work will include bunker drainage systems, irrigation line replacement, pond excavation at key holes and decking replacement on course bridges.
The funding source and timing: staff said the bulk of the project is coming from the Tax Increment Finance Authority. “That’s gonna be $3,600,000,” Alec said. Council members and staff clarified that the main amount was approved in a prior TIFA budget; staff said the FY26 TIFA budget itself had…
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