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Reinbeck council deletes property from TIF district and repeals earlier tax-division ordinance
Summary
The Reinbeck City Council voted unanimously Feb. 2 to remove property from the city's Tax Increment Financing (TIF) district and to repeal a prior ordinance on division of taxes; council also suspended the usual two-reading rule to adopt both ordinances at the meeting.
The Reinbeck City Council voted unanimously on Feb. 2 to remove specific property from the city's Tax Increment Financing district and to repeal the city ordinance that previously governed division of taxes in the Reinbeck Urban Renewal Area.
Mayor Jamie Eiffler introduced Ordinance No. 2026-01OR to delete the property from the TIF district pursuant to Section 403.19 of the Code of Iowa. Councilmember Trepp moved for first consideration and adoption; the council then voted to suspend the statutory two-reading requirement and placed the ordinance on final consideration. The roll call votes on suspension and final adoption were Wambold, Pease, Johnson, Trepp and Bueghly — all voting aye.
The council also introduced and adopted Ordinance No. 2026-02OR, repealing Ordinance No. 99-10-02, which had provided for the division of taxes levied on taxable property in the Reinbeck Urban Renewal Area. Councilmember Wambold moved first consideration and adoption; Councilmember Johnson seconded. The council again suspended the two-reading rule and adopted the repeal ordinance on final consideration with a unanimous roll call vote.
Why it matters: removing property from a TIF district and repealing an older tax-division ordinance can change how incremental tax revenues are allocated and affect future redevelopment financing. City officials did not state a separate effective date in the meeting minutes; the ordinances were adopted on final consideration at the Feb. 2 meeting.
What happened next: the council earlier that evening also approved Resolution #2026-04R deleting property from the Reinbeck Urban Renewal Area (same five-member unanimous vote), a related administrative action that tracks with the ordinance changes.
The council took the votes during its regular meeting and did not record any dissenting votes on these items.
