STRATEGIC PRIORITY: Economic and Neighborhood Vitality
AGENDA DATE: February 26, 2020
COUNCIL DISTRICT(S): 8, 11
DEPARTMENT: Office of Economic Development
EXECUTIVE: Michael Mendoza
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SUBJECT
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A resolution accepting the FY 2018-2019 Annual Report on the status of Tax Increment Financing Reinvestment Zone Number Twenty (Mall Area Redevelopment TIF District or District) and authorizing the City Manager to submit the annual report to the Chief Executive Officer of each taxing jurisdiction that levies taxes on real property in the District and to the State Comptroller, as required by state law - Financing: No cost consideration to the City
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BACKGROUND
Currently the City has 19 active tax increment financing (TIF) districts. State law (the TIF Act, Chapter 311 of the Texas Tax Code) requires that the governing body of a city shall submit an annual report on the status of each reinvestment zone it has created to the Chief Executive Officer of each taxing jurisdiction that levies taxes on real property in the zone as well as to the State Comptroller.
On May 14, 2014, City Council authorized the establishment of Tax Increment Financing Reinvestment Zone Number Twenty (Mall Area Redevelopment TIF District) by Ordinance No. 29340, as amended. On June 17, 2015, City Council authorized the Project Plan and Reinvestment Zone Financing Plan for the Mall Area Redevelopment TIF District and authorized the City Manager to execute a participation agreement with Dallas County by Ordinance No. 29771. On August 18, 2015, the Dallas County Commissioners Court approved Court Order No. 2015-1122 authorizing: (1) the participation of Dallas County in the City of Dallas Mall Area Redevelopment TIF District, beginning on January 1, 2020, subject to Valley View Mall (excluding Sears and the existing theater) being demolished by the same date, by providing 55% of its increment for either twenty years, unti...
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