Community Update

For those of you who are misinformed or would like to learn more about a TIF district, please go to
www.menomonee-falls.org
web site.  Click on the Economic Development tab.  Read the page and
then click on Tax Increment Financing link  (left side of web page) and
read the Power Point presentation that was presented
to the Village Board on June 2013.   After that reading, speak your
onions.   The TIF is regulated by a lot of State agencies so Menomonee
Falls just doesn’t decide to do something without some other entity
looking at the project and approving it.  If a site
(especially with hazardous material) stays vacant for a long time, the
Village is LOSING money from the loss of property taxes.  If they spend
money that will eventually be repaid through taxes by developers
improving the property, then the taxpayers win.   
The more commercial development there are in the Village, the lower the
resident property taxes. Those of you who speak so negatively about any
issue probably never attend a Board meeting whether it be the regular
Board or special Boards.   However, now you
can see the entire video broadcast of the regular Village Board meeting
on
www.menomonee–falls.org.  It is usually posted a few weeks after the meeting.  No excuse not to know what is going on in the Village.