City Council blows 12 grand
Now that my blog is back online I believe I am required by some strange blogger law to write something, so how about this from Tuesday’s City Council meeting via the Journal Star-
The City Council voted 10-1 Tuesday to pay $12,000 to Camiros Ltd. to study a M-shaped area around the Peoria Civic Center and Downtown’s three largest hotels to see if they should be included within a TIF district.
At-large Councilman Gary Sandberg was the one to vote against the contract. “There is absolutely no reason to waste $12,000,” he said. [...]
Sandberg questioned whether Camiros has ever actually determined an area was unfit for a TIF district.
The company has previously approved two other areas in Peoria as TIF districts – the Warehouse District south of Downtown and an area in South Peoria called Eagle View. In Peoria, there is no known instance of Camiros recommending the council deny a TIF district within a specified area.
Remember this post when the the City Council approves the downtown TIF with a vote in favor 11-1 as they would have anyway … but now with the backing of a Chicago consulting firm at a cost of a mere $12,000.
