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Victoria Feilmeyer to: Mark Lambert 09/26/2019 04:28 PM
Cc: Duane R Pitcher, Diane R Voss, Kelly Diekmann,Justin Moore
Mark: My summary of the status of this matter is as follows --
FIRST TIF DISTRICT
I spoke with the County about amending the first TIF District this afternoon. They need an Ordinance
revising the original TIF District #1 (created in 2014, 1 believe). I also spoke with Justin in planning and he
is working on providing us with the legal description we need to include the land outside of the original TIF
boundary. Provided that somebody can get me a legal description on a timely basis, I think that I can
prepare the Ordinance"correcting"the boundary of the first TIF district, as Duane references below. I will
run this past the County when I have a draft done, so that we know it will be acceptable before Council is
asked to approve it.
SECOND TIF DISTRICT. As it relates to the new TIF district (#2 within the ISURP area), I was provided
today a by Planning a legal description quite similar to that Planning originally provided on September 4.
It remains unacceptable to the County, and they will not recognize it. We cannot include land that is
currently in Outlot X, Iowa State University Research Park Phase III, Third Addition, as Planning
proposes.
In order to create the second district, we can include 3525 S. Riverside (Deere & Company-
09-22-150-100), and 3511 S. Riverside (ISU Research Park- 09-22-100-004) and (ISU Research Park
09-22-100-240), or any one or a combination of the three. We are not able to create a second TIF District
that includes other land currently in Outlot X, Iowa State Research Park Phase III.
I will wait for Planning to (1) provide the description for the amended boundary of TIF District #1 so that we
can fix the area to conform to the new boundary, and (2) provide me with the intended boundary of District
#2 --which needs to be any one or a combination of the three parcels I identified above.
CITY OF
Ames
Victoria A. Feilmeyer
Assistant 013•Attorney
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vfeilmeyer@city.ames.ia.usI City Hall, 515 Clark Avenue I Ames, IA 50010
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Mark Lambert Mark O. Lambert City Attorney 09/26/2019 03:53:12 PM
From: Mark Lambert/COA
To: Victoria Feilmeyer/COA@COA
Date: 09/26/2019 03:53 PM
Subject: Fw: ISURP TIF
CITY OF
Ames
Mark O. Lambert
GO,Attorney
515.239.5146 main 1515.239.5142 far
mlambert@city.ames.ia.us I City Hall, 515 Clark Avenue I Ames, IA 50010
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--Forwarded by Mark Lambert/COA on 09/26/2019 03:53 PM-----
From: Duane R Pitcher/COA
To: Kelly Diekmann/COA@COA
Cc: Diane R Voss/COA@COA,Mark Lambert/COA@COA, Steve Schainker/COA@COA
Date: 09/26/2019 12:38 PM
Subject: Re: ISURP TIF
To all,
I spoke with Rhonda Sykes with the Story County auditors office. She informed me that
upon receipt of an amended ordinance to expand the boundaries the current ISURP TIF, she
will include the ARFC property at 3600 University and increase the frozen base by the value
of the property added by the amended ordinance.
Duane
Duane Pitcher, CPA, CPFO
Director of Finance
City of Ames
515 Clark Avenue
P.O. Box 811
Ames, Iowa 50010
Phone (515) 239-5114
-----Duane R Pitcher/COA wrote: -----
To: Kelly Diekmann/COA@COA
From: Duane R Pitcher/COA
Date: 09/25/2019 11:46AM
Cc: Diane R Voss/COA@COA, Mark Lambert/COA@COA, Steve Schainker/COA@COA
Subject: ISURP TIF
Kelly,
Doing some preliminary work on the TIF reporting due on December 1. I learned from the
County Auditor that the ARFC property at 3600 University is now outside the boundaries of
the ISURP TIF district. Per the City Assessor's records, a plat of survey was approved by
Council on 8/14/2018 (Res. 18-481) that modified the lot to include the tennis bubble. This
change placed the lot outside the TIF district boundaries and to have taxes go to the TIF a
property needs to be fully within the boundaries. As best I can tell from the sketched maps
I have, the ARFC lot including the tennis bubble is within the URA. If that is the case we will
need to modify just the TIF ordinance to change the boundaries.
The property taxes collected in September 2019 and March 2020 will not be impacted,
however there is some urgency to modify the ordinance. The County tells me we need to
have this done prior to our December 1 TIF claim.
For Legal - let me know if you will be preparing the ordinance with the modified TIF
boundaries or if you would like me to coordinate with Planning and Dorsey Law to get this
done.
Duane
Duane Pitcher, CPA, CPFO
Director of Finance
City of Ames
515 Clark Avenue
P.O. Box 811
Ames, Iowa 50010
Phone (515) 239-5114