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Shelby County accepts pilot-ad hoc recommendations, starts process to reform PILOT incentives
Summary
After more than a year of work, the commission voted to receive recommendations from its pilot ad hoc committee aimed at tightening oversight of local tax-incentive (PILOT) agreements while preserving legislative authority. Supporters said reforms aim to improve transparency; business leaders urged caution.
The Shelby County Board of Commissioners on Dec. 15 voted to receive a package of recommendations from an ad hoc committee that spent more than a year reviewing the county's use of payment-in-lieu-of-taxes (PILOT) incentives.
Sponsor Commissioner Henry E. Brooks said the package is intended to reform — not eliminate — the county's incentive process, emphasizing greater transparency, clearer public engagement standards and safeguards to preserve the commission's legislative role in approving contracts. "We are not about removing pilots. We are about pilot reform," Brooks said.
Bobby White, chief government affairs…
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