Last week I told you about how the bill to massively expand the Renaissance Zone selective tax exemption program was a threat to a different bill that is designed to let cities, like Bismarck, have a second chance at getting back into the program after negotiating with the local jurisdictions that do not approve of the program. (In Bismarck’s case, that is the Burleigh County Commission.)
You can read my condensed written testimony here, and if you want a more extensive understanding of the history of this issue watch my video testimony above.
In my spoken testimony, I mention “one-off concessions and stipulations” that will need to be offered in order to get Burleigh County back to the table on the issue of the Renaissance Zone.
Here are some of the stipulations I offered last spring (neither side - Bismarck or Burleigh County - were really that interested in going down that road, but I offered them as a way to try to move the conversation along as well as protect taxpayer interests)":
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