Tom Tresser gave this presentation for the North Beverly Civic Association on November 3, 2015. If you would like YOUR community Illuminated, please contact us at tom@civiclan.us. For the FULL slide deck, please visit our TIF Data Store at http://www.tifreports.com/store. We rely on contributions from people like you to keep this work alive.

1. November 3, 2015
Tom Tresser

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Key Policy Questions
1. Under what circumstances do we give public $ to private
business?
2. Who plans what for whom? AKA, What defines
“community development”?
3. Are we broke?
4. Who’s watching our back? Need for new leaders.

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What are TIFs?

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What are TIFs?
• Created by municipality (state law)
• Designed to subsidize some business
project in “blighted” or under-served
area
• Captures “incremental” property taxes
ABOVE base when district was created
• Only for hard costs
• Lasts 23 years
• Supposed to be spent where collected

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How Do TIFs Work?
When the TIF is created,
the city tallies up all the
property taxes
generated by district in
that year (called the
"base" amount). After
that, all property tax
increases above the
base (the "increment")
are channeled to the TIF
district.
The property taxes
collected from
properties inside the
district BEFORE the
district was created
that go to units of
government stays
FLAT for the life of the
TIF (23 years).

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Money From TIFs Taken From?

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What are TIFs?
Under state law, areas proposed for TIF designation
must possess numerous blighting factors to be
eligible:
• Age
• Obsolescence
• Code violations
• Excessive vacancies
• Overcrowding of facilities

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TIFs Usedto support commercial projects in these“Blighted”
Areas
40 S. Halsted
Apple Store

10. 10Better Government Association

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Where are TIFs?
2014
Chicago = 147
Suburbs = 286
Cook County = 433

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Mr. TIF

18. To sum up:
 TIFs = property taxes
 Increment $ collected by TIF
 Run by city (mayor)
 Lasts 23 years
 Blight & “But for” conditions
 Hard costs
 Supposed to be spent where
collected

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What are TIFs?

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What are TIFs?
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DVD with 2 TIF training videos + 2 bonus tracks
Nifty TIF Illumination poster

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