SUBSTITUTE                                                                                                        ADOPTED - JUNE 26, 2007

Agenda Item No. 13

 

Introduced by the County Services and Finance Committees of the:

 

INGHAM COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

 

RESOLUTION APPROVING A BROWNFIELD PLAN FOR REDEVELOPMENT OF

 INGHAM COUNTY LAND BANK AUTHORITY PROPERTIES

 

RESOLUTION #07-142

 

WHEREAS, the Ingham County Brownfield Redevelopment Authority recommends approval of a Brownfield Plan for the redevelopment of Ingham County Land Bank Fast Track Authority Parcels and provides the following resolution to the Ingham County Commissioners; and

 

WHEREAS, the Ingham County Board of Commissioners created a Brownfield Redevelopment Authority (resolution #01-279) in September 2001 pursuant to PA 381 of 1996, as amended (the Act) in order to promote the redevelopment of environmentally distressed, functionally obsolete, and/or blighted areas of the County; and

 

WHEREAS, the Brownfield Authority has met and considered a brownfield plan (the Plan) to restore the environmental and economic viability of tax foreclosed and underutilized properties that are held by the Land Bank Authority in 2007; and

 

WHEREAS, the Authority reviewed the Plan in accordance with the Act and finds:

            a.         That the Plan meets the requirements of Section 13 of the Act;

            b.         That the proposed method of financing the costs of the eligible activities is feasible;

c.         That the costs of eligible activities proposed are reasonable and necessary to carry out the purposes of the Act;

d.         That the captured taxable value amount estimated to result from the plan’s adoption is reasonable, and finally;

            e.         That the Plan, in accordance with the Act, constitutes a public purpose; and

 

WHEREAS, pursuant to the Act, this Board of Commissioners is required (a) to hold a public hearing on the approval and adoption of the Brownfield Plan for the Redevelopment of Ingham County Land Bank Fast Track Authority Parcels, and (b) to publish notice of the public hearing in a newspaper of general circulation in the County of Ingham all in accordance with Section 13 (10) of the Act.

 

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, the Board of Commissioners hereby determines that it is in the best interest of the public to promote the redevelopment of environmentally distressed (functionally obsolete and/or blighted) areas of the County which are listed in the Plan.

 

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ADOPTED - JUNE 26, 2007

Agenda Item No. 13

 

RESOLUTION #07-142

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, a public hearing shall be set on June 26, 2007 by the Board of Commissioners and to be held before the Board of Commissioners on July 24, 2007, at 7:30 p.m. in the Board of Commissioners Room, Ingham County Courthouse, Mason, on the adoption of a resolution approving the Brownfield Plan for the Redevelopment of Ingham County Land Bank Fast Track Authority Properties within the County of Ingham within the municipal limits of which the Authority shall exercise its powers.

 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, the County Clerk of the County of Ingham (the AClerk@) shall give notice to the public of the public hearing by causing notice to be published twice, in a newspaper of general circulation in the County of Ingham, the first of which shall be published at least 20 full days before  the date set for the public hearing.

 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Clerk shall provide notice of the public hearing to the taxing jurisdictions that levy taxes subject to capture under the act, at least 20 days before the date set for the public hearing.

 

COUNTY SERVICES:  Yeas:  De Leon,  Nolan, Copedge, Soule, Severino, Dougan

   Nays:  None          Absent:  None       Approved 6/19/07

 

FINANCE:  Yeas:  Celentino, Weatherwax-Grant, Hertel, Tennis, Dougan

   Nays:  None          Absent:  Grebner       Approved 6/20/07