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Residents urge local spending, decry scale of Amazon tax breaks during Redevelopment Commission public comment
Summary
Public commenters at the Redevelopment Commission meeting asked that community enhancement funds be spent in New Carlisle and Olive Township and questioned press-reported estimates of the tax breaks tied to the Amazon project; staff did not provide a county fiscal model at the meeting to confirm the figures cited by speakers.
During the Redevelopment Commission's public-comment period several speakers urged that the community enhancement funds negotiated with a proposed Amazon project be targeted to New Carlisle and Olive Township and raised concern about the size of tax incentives reported in the press.
Steve Francis of Clay Township criticized the size of the tax breaks reported for Amazon — citing a South Bend Tribune figure he described as $4,184,000,000 and saying that…
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