Board of Estimates – Council preview of a few issues
Often, what happens at Board of Estimates is considered to be a preview of what will happen at the Common Council . . ....
TIF priorities
Yesterday the TIF Policy Committee met to discuss priorities for TIF funding. Current priorities are Support the Downtown, Neighborhood Revitalization and Economic...
TIF Stalled – Again
Apparently, its too hard for some people to read a TIF policy document that's been around since last June and a memo to the...
An agenda for the City
This spring's elections need to be about more than water, trolleys and taxes. Yes, our water needs to be safe to...
Revised TIF policy – will it take 3 years, or more?
Q: How long could it possibly take for the City of Madison to pass revisions to the TIF policy?A: An unbelieveably long...
Talkin’ Taxes
3 Polish guys named Dave (hey, the Mayor said it, not me) and the tiff between the City and County on quarterly tax payments for the City of Madison and the E word. Talking to Lucy Mathiak about the Schools and the Edgewater TIF.
TIF: What’s In? What’s Out?
Tonight the Board of Estimates may finally act on the TIF policy that we've been working on since fall of 2004 . . ....
Who gets our TIF dollars? Who decides and how?
Today, on the longest Board of Estimates agenda of the year, the mayor has placed it on the agenda as item number ...
TIF Assistance for the Gorman Project (800 E Washington Ave.)
So, apparently everyone wants to hear from me what I think about supporting TIF for the Gorman & Co project for the 800 block...
How much TIF for "business" is enough?
Budgeting for and actual spending for TIF, and particularly for the business community as opposed for City projects, has increased dramatically in the last...
Best bang for the (TIF) buck!
This morning's WSJ article on TIF got me thinking . . . about something we did alot of thinking about months ago. If...
TIF Policy – What’s Next?
The committee finally finished its report! Only a year late!The report is done and now it goes off to the Board of Estimates...