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Public comments: resident urges board to oppose TIFs; visitor distributes federal executive orders on gender issues
Summary
Two community members addressed the board during open forum: one asked trustees to oppose tax-increment financing (TIF) because of its effect on school funding; another, Florence Thompson, described four recent federal executive orders on gender and education and said she had emailed materials to trustees.
Two speakers used the board’s open-forum time to press the district on revenue and policy matters.
Mister Malali, a property owner and district resident, urged trustees to oppose most tax-increment financing (TIF) proposals. He told the board that when developers receive a TIF, the “increment” — the increased property value from development — is diverted to pay infrastructure bonds, and taxing entities such as school districts do not receive the additional revenue during the TIF period. “What…
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