If the School's agreed to it, why won't you leave the Alcore TIF issue alone?

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I've heard at least 5 plausible reasons why the school agreed to the Alcore and Family Dollar TIF's and why they are not joining me in asking for the legislation to be changed. I want the legislation changed so the schools receive 100% of what they would normally receive from the taxpayer passed levies and inside millage.  I'm not going to try and guess which of these 5 explanations are correct.  Instead, I'm going to tell you it is important to me because I am a taxpayer in Huber Heights and I believe businesses and people consider the city's tax rates when they decide to locate here.  Things like Aquatic and Music Centers attract people and businesses and when it comes to taxes the lower the better.
 
Last year the schools attempted to pass a property tax levy in order to raise about $4 million dollars.  If we could cut that amount in half, I believe it would it be more likely to pass and the overall property tax rate would scare fewer potential businesses and people away. 
 
Lets look at Alcore.  Keep in mind city staff doesn't dispute that my worksheet is basically correct.  My calculations show that the total amount of property tax the school would receive if the property had not been turned into a TIF district would be about $253,000 a year.  If just 8 business like Alcore decide to open in Huber Heights and are not in a TIF district the schools will get an additional $2 million dollars in property tax.  This means the schools would be able to cut their property tax levy in half!
 
My calculations also show that since the city decided to make the Alcore property a TIF district the school's will only collect about $76,000 a year.  This means it will take 26 businesses like Alcore to move into the city in order get the same amount to the schools.
 
When I say like Alcore, I don't mean assisted living facilities.  I'm talking about businesses with a property tax value of $14 million dollars.  From what I can gather businesses like Walmart and Meijer have assessed values of about $8 million and a Family Dollar about $3 million.  Lets just consider those properties south of I-70 for now because most of the business property north of I-70 is already in a TIF district.  This means that if a business locates north of I-70 the schools will only get 25% of what they normally would get.
 
Is it possible that without the creation of any TIF districts south of I-70 in the next few years we could get 3 more businesses like Alcore ($1 million more to schools), 4 businesses like Walmart and Meijer ($580,000) and 7 stores like Family Dollar ($420,000)?  Sure this seems possible.  We already have a Dollar store about to start building on Brandt Pike across from O'Reilly Auto Parts.  And if the Music Center attracts business into the I-70 TIF district even the pittance of the tax amount the schools get from these TIF properties will reduce the number of businesses needed south of I-70.  
 
Now lets look at what would need to happen in order to raise $2 million dollars for the schools if every new business was put into a TIF district.  We are getting Good Sports. This $22 million complex will likely be assessed at about $18 million for tax purposes.  This will raise about $81,428 for the schools (you may ask why is this only about $5,000 more than Alcore - the answer is because the school's only get 25% of their money in the I-70 TIF.  They get 30% of their money in the Alcore TIF). 
 
So for calculation purposes we have 1 Good Sports ($81,428) and 1 Alcore ($76,000) and 1 Family Dollar ($16,000) already about to start paying the schools.  This means we will need another 11 Alcores, another 13 Walmart / Meijer's and another 25 Family Dollars to move into the city in order for the School's to be able to lower their tax levy request by half.  Keep in mind when I calculated these numbers I used the South of I-70 TIF rate to school's of 30%.  If any of these business locate north in the I-70 TIF then we would need 30 Family Dollars to move into the city!
 
You tell me if this is possible or desired?
 
 
 
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What I intended to do next was take the Courier Article and look at the TIF points they chose to write about in their article. In my opinion that part of the article was one sided.  It was my intention to counter the arguments in the article with the same arguments I think I made during the council meeting (I haven't looked at the video).  Because none of the pro-Alcore TIF arguments hold water and I thought I did a good job countering them Monday.  But it is already 1:00 am  so that part of this article will have to wait.
 
In the meantime you can look at the Huber Heights Courier article yourself.  You can also watch the video of the meeting.
 
Look for "Update" as the first word of the title after I get the chance to compose and post the rest of my thoughts. 
 
Hey, it is important to remember the TIF can be a useful tool for the city.  For instance at the same time the City created Alcore and Family Dollar TIF's which are terrible examples of how to use TIF, they also created the Trimble TIF which appears to be the right and proper use of a TIF (I'd like to compute how right at later time but on first examination it looks like the  proper use). 

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