Butler County gearing up for infrastructure improvements

By: 
Greg Forbes

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ALLISON - Butler County officials are readying for another round of infrastructural improvements to bolster economic development.
 
The plan started in 2010 when the county sought a Revitalize Iowa’s Sound Economy (RISE) grant to foster improvements to roads that led to the Logistics Park and Flint Hills ethanol plant near Shell Rock.
 
With a growing tax base and taxes accrued from those developed areas, the county has now considered the use Tax Increment Financing (TIF) to conduct more improvement projects near other areas of industry.
 
“We decided it’d be a good time to take advantage of a growing tax base and seek to use TIF to complete some projects within the urban renewal area,” said Butler County Engineer John Riherd. 
Read more in the June 22 Tribune and Star.

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