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Fulshear council hears EDCA warning: cutting sales-tax rebates could stall downtown projects
Summary
EDCA president Brian White told the council that reducing the EDCA A boards sales-tax allocation to fund police pay would shrink a roughly $6 million fund and could delay or block downtown drainage and parking projects, which he said are prerequisites for commercial development.
Brian White, president of the EDCA board, told the Fulshear City Council that proposals to reallocate EDCAs sales-tax allocation to other uses would reduce the corporations ability to fund infrastructure projects that currently block downtown commercial development.
White said the EDCA fund balance is "roughly $6,000,000" today and that projected allocations and commitments mean the balance will decline over time; under some scenarios he warned the fund could approach zero. He singled out two projects in the council packetthe West Side Streets/Westside Detention project and the Wall Street (downtown) road projectand said multiple downtown parcels cannot be developed until drainage and parking…
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