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White County revives redevelopment commission and moves to set tax-abatement guidelines
Summary
County leaders said the redevelopment commission will take on tax-abatement reviews, asked for a council-established scoring guideline, and plan a small committee to produce draft guidelines for the next council meeting; staff emphasized improving SB1/CF1 compliance and declaring Economic Revitalization Areas per state statute.
County commissioners and staff spent an extended portion of the meeting discussing tax abatements, redevelopment commission (RDC) responsibilities and a new process the county will use to handle abatement requests.
Randy (economic development staff) described work to reactivate the RDC and proposed a flowchart for how abatement requests should move through the county: prospective applicants would submit the required SB1 forms (for real and personal property) and supporting documentation, those materials would be reviewed by economic development staff and the auditor, legal counsel and the RDC, and the council would see the RDC recommendation before any abatement is approved. Randy and other presenters said the SB1 submissions the county has received…
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