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County to accept Village of Paw Paw settlement over missed PILOT distributions
Summary
The Van Buren County Board of Commissioners agreed Nov. 13 to move forward with a settlement offer from the Village of Paw Paw to resolve years of missed distributions tied to payment-in-lieu-of-taxes (PILOT) agreements.
The Van Buren County Board of Commissioners agreed Nov. 13 to move forward with a settlement offer from the Village of Paw Paw to resolve years of missed distributions tied to payment-in-lieu-of-taxes (PILOT) agreements.
Village staff told the board that prior PILOT receipts had not been distributed to other taxing jurisdictions as required. The village manager said the municipality had failed to “distribute those taxes, the way we should have,” and proposed a settlement that would remit the county’s share of past PILOT receipts and provide an ongoing annual reporting and payment…
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