Give City $ to a Company not in Compliance?

 

City of Cascade

320 1^st Avenue W

PO Box 400

Cascade IA 52033

563.852.3114

 

                                                                            AGENDA REQUEST

 

Here’s an ordinance I will introduce at Monday night’s Cascade City Council meeting and why:

No business, group or organization may apply for Tax Increment Financing, Façade Reimbursement, any present or future remunerative program or action offered by the City of Cascade as long as applicant company/business or any of it divisions, sections, departments or subsidiaries is disputing another matter with the city, regardless of the nature of the matter. If said dispute is not resolved, the city is entitled to recoup the funds until the firm is in compliance. Once the dispute is resolved, the request may then go forward.

I offer this amendment because at a council meeting late last winter there was a discussion of various councilmen’s (unsuccessful) efforts to get a Cascade company to do drainage mitigation required by law at a project here in town. The company refused.

Shockingly, this summer that company was granted a TIF money.

And what happened to the unresolved drainage problem? Still unresolved: the city administrator tells me it is back on the list of street projects that must to be done—you and I get to pay for it, folks!

Am working on one to try to achieve greater transparency and control of the Economic Development. the city has paid over a million $ on infrastructure on Industrial Dr. Each year, Economic Development comes to council looking for a $20,000 and usually gets it. However, Ec Dev is a private corporation which makes it harder to “follow the money” and see who benefits.

            And if you don’t like this nonsense write in somebody who will squawk about it: Shirley McDermott