Local Government Committee

Filed: 3/29/2006

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 2348

2     AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 2348 by replacing
3 everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4     "Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by
5 changing Section 11-74.4-4 as follows:
 
6     (65 ILCS 5/11-74.4-4)  (from Ch. 24, par. 11-74.4-4)
7     Sec. 11-74.4-4. Municipal powers and duties; redevelopment
8 project areas. A municipality may:
9     (a) The changes made by this amendatory Act of the 91st
10 General Assembly do not apply to a municipality that, (i)
11 before the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 91st
12 General Assembly, has adopted an ordinance or resolution fixing
13 a time and place for a public hearing under Section 11-74.4-5
14 or (ii) before July 1, 1999, has adopted an ordinance or
15 resolution providing for a feasibility study under Section
16 11-74.4-4.1, but has not yet adopted an ordinance approving
17 redevelopment plans and redevelopment projects or designating
18 redevelopment project areas under this Section, until after
19 that municipality adopts an ordinance approving redevelopment
20 plans and redevelopment projects or designating redevelopment
21 project areas under this Section; thereafter the changes made
22 by this amendatory Act of the 91st General Assembly apply to
23 the same extent that they apply to redevelopment plans and
24 redevelopment projects that were approved and redevelopment

 

 

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1 projects that were designated before the effective date of this
2 amendatory Act of the 91st General Assembly.
3     By ordinance introduced in the governing body of the
4 municipality within 14 to 90 days from the completion of the
5 hearing specified in Section 11-74.4-5 approve redevelopment
6 plans and redevelopment projects, and designate redevelopment
7 project areas pursuant to notice and hearing required by this
8 Act. No redevelopment project area shall be designated unless a
9 plan and project are approved prior to the designation of such
10 area and such area shall include only those contiguous parcels
11 of real property and improvements thereon substantially
12 benefited by the proposed redevelopment project improvements.
13 Upon adoption of the ordinances, the municipality shall
14 forthwith transmit to the county clerk of the county or
15 counties within which the redevelopment project area is located
16 a certified copy of the ordinances, a legal description of the
17 redevelopment project area, a map of the redevelopment project
18 area, identification of the year that the county clerk shall
19 use for determining the total initial equalized assessed value
20 of the redevelopment project area consistent with subsection
21 (a) of Section 11-74.4-9, and a list of the parcel or tax
22 identification number of each parcel of property included in
23 the redevelopment project area.
24     (b) Make and enter into all contracts with property owners,
25 developers, tenants, overlapping taxing bodies, and others
26 necessary or incidental to the implementation and furtherance
27 of its redevelopment plan and project. Contract provisions
28 concerning loan repayment obligations in contracts entered
29 into on or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of
30 the 93rd General Assembly shall terminate no later than the
31 last to occur of the estimated dates of completion of the
32 redevelopment project and retirement of the obligations issued
33 to finance redevelopment project costs as required by item (3)
34 of subsection (n) of Section 11-74.4-3. Payments received under

 

 

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1 contracts entered into by the municipality prior to the
2 effective date of this amendatory Act of the 93rd General
3 Assembly that are received after the redevelopment project area
4 has been terminated by municipal ordinance shall be deposited
5 into a special fund of the municipality to be used for other
6 community redevelopment needs within the redevelopment project
7 area.
8     (c) Within a redevelopment project area, acquire by
9 purchase, donation, lease or eminent domain; own, convey,
10 lease, mortgage or dispose of land and other property, real or
11 personal, or rights or interests therein, and grant or acquire
12 licenses, easements and options with respect thereto, all in
13 the manner and at such price the municipality determines is
14 reasonably necessary to achieve the objectives of the
15 redevelopment plan and project. No conveyance, lease,
16 mortgage, disposition of land or other property owned by a
17 municipality, or agreement relating to the development of such
18 municipal property shall be made except upon the adoption of an
19 ordinance by the corporate authorities of the municipality.
20 Furthermore, no conveyance, lease, mortgage, or other
21 disposition of land owned by a municipality or agreement
22 relating to the development of such municipal property shall be
23 made without making public disclosure of the terms of the
24 disposition and all bids and proposals made in response to the
25 municipality's request. The procedures for obtaining such bids
26 and proposals shall provide reasonable opportunity for any
27 person to submit alternative proposals or bids.
28     (d) Within a redevelopment project area, clear any area by
29 demolition or removal of any existing buildings and structures.
30     (e) Within a redevelopment project area, renovate or
31 rehabilitate or construct any structure or building, as
32 permitted under this Act.
33     (f) Install, repair, construct, reconstruct or relocate
34 streets, utilities and site improvements essential to the

 

 

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1 preparation of the redevelopment area for use in accordance
2 with a redevelopment plan.
3     (g) Within a redevelopment project area, fix, charge and
4 collect fees, rents and charges for the use of any building or
5 property owned or leased by it or any part thereof, or facility
6 therein.
7     (h) Accept grants, guarantees and donations of property,
8 labor, or other things of value from a public or private source
9 for use within a project redevelopment area.
10     (i) Acquire and construct public facilities within a
11 redevelopment project area, as permitted under this Act.
12     (j) Incur project redevelopment costs and reimburse
13 developers who incur redevelopment project costs authorized by
14 a redevelopment agreement; provided, however, that on and after
15 the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 91st General
16 Assembly, no municipality shall incur redevelopment project
17 costs (except for planning costs and any other eligible costs
18 authorized by municipal ordinance or resolution that are
19 subsequently included in the redevelopment plan for the area
20 and are incurred by the municipality after the ordinance or
21 resolution is adopted) that are not consistent with the program
22 for accomplishing the objectives of the redevelopment plan as
23 included in that plan and approved by the municipality until
24 the municipality has amended the redevelopment plan as provided
25 elsewhere in this Act.
26     (k) Create a commission of not less than 5 or more than 15
27 persons to be appointed by the mayor or president of the
28 municipality with the consent of the majority of the governing
29 board of the municipality. Members of a commission appointed
30 after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1987 shall
31 be appointed for initial terms of 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 years,
32 respectively, in such numbers as to provide that the terms of
33 not more than 1/3 of all such members shall expire in any one
34 year. Their successors shall be appointed for a term of 5

 

 

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1 years. The commission, subject to approval of the corporate
2 authorities may exercise the powers enumerated in this Section.
3 The commission shall also have the power to hold the public
4 hearings required by this division and make recommendations to
5 the corporate authorities concerning the adoption of
6 redevelopment plans, redevelopment projects and designation of
7 redevelopment project areas.
8     (l) Make payment in lieu of taxes or a portion thereof to
9 taxing districts. If payments in lieu of taxes or a portion
10 thereof are made to taxing districts, those payments shall be
11 made to all districts within a project redevelopment area on a
12 basis which is proportional to the current collections of
13 revenue which each taxing district receives from real property
14 in the redevelopment project area.
15     (m) Exercise any and all other powers necessary to
16 effectuate the purposes of this Act.
17     (n) If any member of the corporate authority, a member of a
18 commission established pursuant to Section 11-74.4-4(k) of
19 this Act, or an employee or consultant of the municipality
20 involved in the planning and preparation of a redevelopment
21 plan, or project for a redevelopment project area or proposed
22 redevelopment project area, as defined in Sections
23 11-74.4-3(i) through (k) of this Act, owns or controls an
24 interest, direct or indirect, in any property included in any
25 redevelopment area, or proposed redevelopment area, he or she
26 shall disclose the same in writing to the clerk of the
27 municipality, and shall also so disclose the dates and terms
28 and conditions of any disposition of any such interest, which
29 disclosures shall be acknowledged by the corporate authorities
30 and entered upon the minute books of the corporate authorities.
31 If an individual holds such an interest then that individual
32 shall refrain from any further official involvement in regard
33 to such redevelopment plan, project or area, from voting on any
34 matter pertaining to such redevelopment plan, project or area,

 

 

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1 or communicating with other members concerning corporate
2 authorities, commission or employees concerning any matter
3 pertaining to said redevelopment plan, project or area.
4 Furthermore, no such member or employee shall acquire of any
5 interest direct, or indirect, in any property in a
6 redevelopment area or proposed redevelopment area after either
7 (a) such individual obtains knowledge of such plan, project or
8 area or (b) first public notice of such plan, project or area
9 pursuant to Section 11-74.4-6 of this Division, whichever
10 occurs first. For the purposes of this subsection, a property
11 interest acquired in a single parcel of property by a member of
12 the corporate authority, which property is used exclusively as
13 the member's primary residence, shall not be deemed to
14 constitute an interest in any property included in a
15 redevelopment area or proposed redevelopment area that was
16 established before December 31, 1989, but the member must
17 disclose the acquisition to the municipal clerk under the
18 provisions of this subsection. A single property interest
19 acquired within one year after the effective date of this
20 amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly by a member of the
21 corporate authority does not constitute an interest in any
22 property included in any redevelopment area or proposed
23 redevelopment area, regardless of when the redevelopment area
24 was established, if (i) the property is used exclusively as the
25 member's primary residence, (ii) the member discloses the
26 acquisition to the municipal clerk under the provisions of this
27 subsection, (iii) the acquisition is for fair market value,
28 (iv) the member acquires the property as a result of the
29 property being publicly advertised for sale, and (v) the member
30 refrains from voting on, and communicating with other members
31 concerning, any matter when the benefits to the redevelopment
32 project or area would be significantly greater than the
33 benefits to the municipality as a whole. For the purposes of
34 this subsection, a month-to-month leasehold interest in a

 

 

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1 single parcel of property by a member of the corporate
2 authority shall not be deemed to constitute an interest in any
3 property included in any redevelopment area or proposed
4 redevelopment area, but the member must disclose the interest
5 to the municipal clerk under the provisions of this subsection.
6     (o) Create a Tax Increment Economic Development Advisory
7 Committee to be appointed by the Mayor or President of the
8 municipality with the consent of the majority of the governing
9 board of the municipality, the members of which Committee shall
10 be appointed for initial terms of 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 years
11 respectively, in such numbers as to provide that the terms of
12 not more than 1/3 of all such members shall expire in any one
13 year. Their successors shall be appointed for a term of 5
14 years. The Committee shall have none of the powers enumerated
15 in this Section. The Committee shall serve in an advisory
16 capacity only. The Committee may advise the governing Board of
17 the municipality and other municipal officials regarding
18 development issues and opportunities within the redevelopment
19 project area or the area within the State Sales Tax Boundary.
20 The Committee may also promote and publicize development
21 opportunities in the redevelopment project area or the area
22 within the State Sales Tax Boundary.
23     (p) Municipalities may jointly undertake and perform
24 redevelopment plans and projects and utilize the provisions of
25 the Act wherever they have contiguous redevelopment project
26 areas or they determine to adopt tax increment financing with
27 respect to a redevelopment project area which includes
28 contiguous real property within the boundaries of the
29 municipalities, and in doing so, they may, by agreement between
30 municipalities, issue obligations, separately or jointly, and
31 expend revenues received under the Act for eligible expenses
32 anywhere within contiguous redevelopment project areas or as
33 otherwise permitted in the Act.
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1 revenues, received under this Act from one redevelopment
2 project area for eligible costs in another redevelopment
3 project area that is:
4         (i) contiguous to the redevelopment project area from
5     which the revenues are received;
6         (ii) separated only by a public right of way from the
7     redevelopment project area from which the revenues are
8     received; or
9         (iii) separated only by forest preserve property from
10     the redevelopment project area from which the revenues are
11     received if the closest boundaries of the redevelopment
12     project areas that are separated by the forest preserve
13     property are less than one mile apart.
14     Utilize tax increment revenues for eligible costs that are
15 received from a redevelopment project area created under the
16 Industrial Jobs Recovery Law that is either contiguous to, or
17 is separated only by a public right of way from, the
18 redevelopment project area created under this Act which
19 initially receives these revenues. Utilize revenues, other
20 than State sales tax increment revenues, by transferring or
21 loaning such revenues to a redevelopment project area created
22 under the Industrial Jobs Recovery Law that is either
23 contiguous to, or separated only by a public right of way from
24 the redevelopment project area that initially produced and
25 received those revenues; and, if the redevelopment project area
26 (i) was established before the effective date of this
27 amendatory Act of the 91st General Assembly and (ii) is located
28 within a municipality with a population of more than 100,000,
29 utilize revenues or proceeds of obligations authorized by
30 Section 11-74.4-7 of this Act, other than use or occupation tax
31 revenues, to pay for any redevelopment project costs as defined
32 by subsection (q) of Section 11-74.4-3 to the extent that the
33 redevelopment project costs involve public property that is
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1 way from, a redevelopment project area whether or not
2 redevelopment project costs or the source of payment for the
3 costs are specifically set forth in the redevelopment plan for
4 the redevelopment project area.
5     (r) If no redevelopment project has been initiated in a
6 redevelopment project area within 7 years after the area was
7 designated by ordinance under subsection (a), the municipality
8 shall adopt an ordinance repealing the area's designation as a
9 redevelopment project area; provided, however, that if an area
10 received its designation more than 3 years before the effective
11 date of this amendatory Act of 1994 and no redevelopment
12 project has been initiated within 4 years after the effective
13 date of this amendatory Act of 1994, the municipality shall
14 adopt an ordinance repealing its designation as a redevelopment
15 project area. Initiation of a redevelopment project shall be
16 evidenced by either a signed redevelopment agreement or
17 expenditures on eligible redevelopment project costs
18 associated with a redevelopment project.
19 (Source: P.A. 92-16, eff. 6-28-01; 93-298, eff. 7-23-03;
20 93-961, eff. 1-1-05; 93-1098, eff. 1-1-06.)
 
21     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect January
22 1, 2007.".