Fiscal Note
The 2006 P & D Adopted Capital budget (project #10, Account #822401) authorizes expenditure of up to $500,000 in loans to businesses locating within the TID 24 district. This project would be funded under such authorization.
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Authorizing the Mayor and City Clerk to execute a development agreement to fund a Tax Incremental Finance (TIF) Loan in the amount of $130,000 to TJK Properties, LLC to construct a 25,000 square foot industrial building located on Lots 32 & 33 of Marsh Court in Tax Incremental Finance District Number 24 (Southeast Industrial Development District).
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WHEREAS on September 19, 1995, the Common Council of the City of Madison approved the creation of TIF District Number 24 and the project plan for the district, which states that the City of Madison has created said district to advance adopted City objectives for encouraging industrial growth and orderly land development; and
WHEREAS on September 7, 1999, the Common Council of the City of Madison adopted resolution number 56,509, ID number 26,070 authorizing a $50,000 TIF loan to J-B Partnership, representing the owners of Westphal & Company ("Company"), an electrical contractor headquartered in Janesville, Wisconsin and operating in Janesville, Madison and Iowa; and
WHEREAS, the Company constructed a 10,000 square foot building in the City of Madison and said loan was repaid through tax increments in 2005 (six years) and a satisfaction of mortgage and note issued by the City of Madison; and
WHEREAS, John Westphal, president of the Company and a member of J-B Partnership, bought out the interest of a family member in J-B Partnership and created Wahnfried Holdings, LLC ("Wahnfried") to own the current building and lease it to the Company; and
WHEREAS, the Company now retains 12 jobs in Madison and would locate 31 jobs in Madison jobs and consolidate all operations in Madison whereby approximately 250 full-time licensed electricians would operate and report...
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