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Shawnee Mission board to form task force to review City of Shawnee TIF proposal
Summary
District leaders briefed the board on a proposed City of Shawnee tax-increment financing district that could freeze incremental school tax revenue for decades; the board president proposed a task force of board members and district staff to evaluate potential impacts before the city's May 11 action.
Shawnee Mission School District trustees agreed to form a small task force to study a proposed City of Shawnee tax-increment financing (TIF) district after district staff warned that TIF capture could freeze property-tax revenue that would otherwise flow to schools.
District staff summarized the city's proposal, which lays out seven project areas including retail and a residential neighborhood near 435 and K-7. "Within a TIF district, the property tax revenue going to schools and other entities is frozen at that…
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