FIRST REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 253
92ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATORS STEELMAN, KINDER, SHIELDS, BARTLE, MATHEWSON,DePASCO, BLAND, YECKEL, WHEELER AND VOGEL. Read 1st time January 14, 2003, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
0734S.03I
AN ACT
To amend chapter 99, RSMo, by adding thereto twenty-one new sections relating to Missouri downtown economic stimulus act.
Section A.Chapter 99, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto twenty-one new sections, to be known as sections 99.915, 99.918, 99.921, 99.924, 99.927, 99.930, 99.933, 99.936, 99.939, 99.942, 99.945, 99.948, 99.951, 99.954, 99.957, 99.960, 99.963, 99.965, 99.968, 99.971, and 99.980, to read as follows:
99.915.1.Sections 99.915 to 99.980 shall be known and may be cited as the "Missouri Downtown Economic Stimulus Act".
2.Nothing in sections 99.915 to 99.980 shall be construed to provide any funding for the construction, maintenance, or operation of any sports stadium or related facility.
3.Sections 99.915 to 99.980 shall be construed liberally to effectuate the purposes hereof.Insofar as the provisions of sections 99.915 to 99.980 are inconsistent with the provisions of any other law, the provisions of sections 99.915 to 99.980 shall be controlling.
4.The powers conferred by sections 99.915 to 99.980 shall be in addition and supplemental to the powers conferred by any other law.
99.918. As used in sections 99.915 to 99.980, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the following terms shall mean:
(1)"Authority", the downtown economic stimulus authority for a municipality, created pursuant to sections 99.915 to 99.980;
(2)"Baseline year", the calendar year prior to the adoption of an ordinance by the municipality approving a development project;
(3)"Blighted area", an area which, by reason of the predominance of defective or inadequate street layout, unsanitary or unsafe conditions, deterioration of site improvements, improper subdivision or obsolete platting, or the existence of conditions which endanger life or property by fire and other causes, or any combination of such factors, retards the provision of housing accommodations or constitutes an economic or social liability or a menace to the public health, safety, morals, or welfare in its present condition and use;
(4)"Collecting officer", the officer of the municipality responsible for receiving and processing payments in lieu of taxes, economic activity taxes, and other net new revenues from taxpayers and, as to local sales taxes, the department of revenue;
(5)"Conservation area", any improved area within the boundaries of a redevelopment area located within the territorial limits of a municipality in which fifty percent or more of the structures in the area have an age of thirty-five years or more, and such an area is not yet a blighted area but is detrimental to the public health, safety, morals, or welfare and may become a blighted area because of any one or more of the following factors: dilapidation; obsolescence; deterioration; illegal use of individual structures; presence of structures below minimum code standards; abandonment; excessive vacancies; overcrowding of structures and community facilities; lack of ventilation, light or sanitary facilities; inadequate utilities; excessive land coverage; deleterious land use or layout; depreciation of physical maintenance; and lack of community planning;
(6)"Development area", an area designated by a municipality in respect to which the municipality has made a finding that there exist conditions which cause the area to be classified as a blighted area or a conservation area, which area shall have the following characteristics:
(a)It includes only those parcels of real property directly and substantially benefited by the proposed development plan;
(b)It can be renovated through one or more development projects;
(c)It is located in the central business districts or urban core areas of a city;
(d)It has generally suffered from declining population or property taxes for the twenty-year period immediately preceding the area's designation as a development area; and
(e)It is contiguous, provided, however that a development area may include up to three noncontiguous areas selected for development projects, provided that each noncontiguous area meets the requirements of paragraphs (a) through (d) herein;
(f)The development area shall not exceed ten percent of the entire area of the municipality.
Subject to the limitation set forth in this subdivision, the development area can be enlarged or modified as provided in section 99.951;
(7)"Development plan", the comprehensive program of a municipality to reduce or eliminate those conditions which qualified a development area as a blighted area or a conservation area, and to thereby enhance the tax bases of the taxing districts which extend into the development area through the reimbursement, payment, or other financing of development project costs in accordance with sections 99.915 to 99.980 and through the exercise of the powers set forth in sections 99.915 to 99.980.The development plan shall conform to the requirements of section 99.942;
(8)"Development project", any development project within a development area which constitutes a major initiative in furtherance of the objectives of the development plan, and any such development project shall include a legal description of the area selected for such development project;
(9)"Development project area", the area located within a development area selected for a development project;
(10)"Development project costs" include the sum total of all reasonable or necessary costs incurred or estimated to be incurred, and any such costs incidental to the development plan or a development project, as applicable, which are expended on public property, buildings, or rights-of-way for public purposes or for public institutions in furtherance of a development project.Such costs include, but are not limited to, the following:
(a)Costs of studies, appraisals, surveys, plans, and specifications;
(b)Professional service costs, including, but not limited to, architectural, engineering, legal, marketing, financial, planning, or special services;
(c)Property assembly costs, including, but not limited to, acquisition of land and other property, real or personal, or rights or interests therein, demolition of buildings, and the clearing and grading of land;
(d)Costs of rehabilitation, reconstruction, repair, or remodeling of existing buildings and fixtures;
(e)Costs of construction of public works or improvements;
(f)Financing costs, including, but not limited to, all necessary and incidental expenses related to the issuance of obligations issued to finance all or any portion of the costs of one or more development projects, and which may include capitalized interest on any such obligations and reasonable reserves related to any such obligations;
(g)All or a portion of a taxing district's capital costs resulting from any development project necessarily incurred or to be incurred in furtherance of the objectives of the development plan, to the extent the municipality by written agreement accepts and approves such costs;
(h)Relocation costs to the extent that a municipality determines that relocation costs shall be paid or are required to be paid by federal or state law;
(i)Payments to taxing districts on a pro rata basis to partially reimburse taxes diverted by approval of a development project;
(j)State government costs, including, but not limited to, the reasonable costs incurred by the department of economic development, the department of revenue and the office of administration in evaluating an application for and administering state supplemental downtown development financing for a development project; and
(k)Endowment of governmental or public institutions of research or higher education.
(11)"Economic activity taxes", the total additional revenue from taxes which are imposed by the municipality and other taxing districts, and which are generated by economic activities within each development project area over the amount of such taxes generated by economic activities within such development project area in the baseline year, but excluding personal property taxes, taxes imposed on sales or charges for sleeping rooms paid by transient guests of hotels and motels, licenses, fees, or special assessments.If a retail establishment relocates within one year from one facility to another facility within the same county and the authority finds that the retail establishment is a direct beneficiary of development financing, then for purposes of this definition, the economic activity taxes generated by the retail establishment shall equal the total additional revenues from economic activity taxes which are imposed by the municipality and other taxing district over the amount of economic activity taxes generated by the retail establishment in the baseline year;
(12)"Gambling establishment", an excursion gambling boat as defined in section 313.800, RSMo, and any related business facility including any real property improvements which are directly and solely related to such business facility, whose sole purpose is to provide goods or services to an excursion gambling boat and whose majority ownership interest is held by a person licensed to conduct gambling games on an excursion gambling boat or licensed to operate an excursion gambling boat as provided in sections 313.800 to 313.850, RSMo;
(13)"Major initiative", a development project that:
(a)Promotes tourism, cultural activities, arts, entertainment, education, research, arenas, multipurpose facilities, libraries, ports, mass transit, museums, or conventions, the estimated cost of which is in excess of the amount set forth below for the municipality, as applicable; or
(b)Promotes business location or expansion, the estimated cost of which is in excess of the amount set forth below for the municipality, and is estimated to create at least as many new jobs as set forth below within three years of such location or expansion:
Population of Estimated New Jobs
Municipality Project Cost Created
300,000 or more $10,000,000 at least 100
100,000 to 299,999 $5,000,000 at least 50
99,999 or less $1,000,000 at least 10;
(14)"Municipality", any city, village, incorporated town, or any county of this state established on or prior to January 1, 2001;
(15)"Obligations", bonds, loans, debentures, notes, special certificates, or other evidences of indebtedness issued by the authority or other public entity authorized to issue such obligations pursuant to sections 99.915 to 99.980 to carry out a development project or to refund outstanding obligations;
(16)"Ordinance", an ordinance enacted by the governing body of any municipality or an order of the governing body of such a municipal entity whose governing body is not authorized to enact ordinances;
(17)"Other net new revenues", the amount of state sales tax increment or state income tax increment or the combination of the amount of each such increment as determined under section 99.960;
(18)"Payment in lieu of taxes", those revenues from real property in each development project area, which taxing districts would have received had the municipality not adopted a development plan and the municipality not adopted development financing, and which would result from levies made after the time of the adoption of development financing during the time the current equalized value of real property in such development project area exceeds the total equalized value of real property in such development project area during the baseline year until development financing for such development project area expires or is terminated pursuant to sections 99.915 to 99.980;
(19)"Special allocation fund", the fund of the municipality or its authority required to be established pursuant to section 99.957 which special allocation fund shall contain at least four separate segregated accounts into which payments in lieu of taxes are deposited in one account, economic activity taxes are deposited in a second account, other net new revenues are deposited in a third account, and other revenues, if any, received by the authority or the municipality for the purpose of implementing a development plan or a development project are deposited in a fourth account;
(20)"State income tax increment", the estimate of the income tax due the state for salaries or wages paid to new employees in new jobs at a business located in the development project area and created by the development project.The estimate shall be a percentage of the gross payroll which percentage shall be based upon an analysis by the department of revenue of the practical tax rate on gross payroll as a factor in overall taxable income.In no event shall the percentage exceed two percent;
(21)"State sales tax increment", the incremental increase in the state sales tax revenue in the development project area.The incremental increase for an existing facility shall be the amount that the state sales tax revenue of the facility exceeds the state sales tax revenue of the facility in the baseline year.The incremental increase for a relocating facility shall be the amount that the state sales tax revenue of the facility exceeds the state sales tax revenue for the facility in the calendar year prior to relocation;
(22)"State sales tax revenues", the general revenue portion of state sales tax revenues received pursuant to section 144.020, RSMo, excluding sales taxes that are constitutionally dedicated, taxes deposited to the school district trust fund in accordance with section 144.701, RSMo, sales and use taxes on motor vehicles, trailers, boats and outboard motors and future sales taxes earmarked by law;
(23)"Taxing districts", any political subdivision of this state having the power to levy taxes; and
(24)"Taxing district's capital costs", those costs of taxing districts for capital improvements that are found by the municipal governing bodies to be necessary and to directly result from a development project.
99.921.Each municipality may create an authority to be known as a "Downtown Economic Stimulus Authority"; provided, however:
(1)No such authority shall transact any business or exercise its powers under sections 99.915 to 99.980 until and unless the governing body of such municipality shall, in accordance with subsection 1 of section 99.948, approve, by ordinance, the exercise of the powers, functions, and duties of an authority under sections 99.915 to 99.980;
(2)No governing body of a municipality shall adopt an ordinance pursuant to subdivision (1) of this section unless it finds:
(a)That it would be in the interest of the public to consider the establishment of a development area in accordance with sections 99.915 to 99.980;
(b)That the development of such a development area would be in the interest of the public health, safety, morals, or welfare of the residents of such municipality; and
(c)That it is anticipated that such a development area can be renovated through a series of one or more development projects.
99.924.1.Each authority shall be governed by a board of commissioners.The number of commissioners serving on the board of each authority shall be no less than five and no more than thirteen, which number shall be established by ordinance of the municipality.
2.The initial commissioners appointed pursuant to this subsection shall serve staggered terms of one, two, and three years as determined by the mayor or chief executive officer of the municipality at the time of their appointment.Thereafter, successor commissioners shall be appointed by the mayor or chief executive officer of the municipality for a term of three years.All vacancies shall be filled by appointment of the mayor or chief executive officer of the municipality for the unexpired term.Notwithstanding anything contained in this subsection to the contrary, in any county with a charter form of government and with more than one million inhabitants, three of the members shall be appointed by the cities in the county which have tax increment financing districts in a manner in which the cities shall agree.
99.927.1.The powers of the authority shall be exercised by its board of commissioners.A majority of the commissioners shall constitute a quorum of such board for the purpose of conducting business and exercising the powers of the authority and for all other purposes.Action may be taken by the board upon a vote of a majority of the commissioners present in person or by teleconference, unless in any case the bylaws of the authority shall require a larger number.Meetings of the board of the authority may be held anywhere within the municipality.
2.The commissioners of the authority annually shall elect a chair and vice chair from among the commissioners; however, the first chair shall be designated by the mayor for a term of one year.The mayor or chief executive officer of the municipality shall serve as the co-chair of the authority.The authority may employ an executive director, technical experts, and such other officers, agents, and employees, permanent and temporary, as it may require, and shall determine their qualifications, duties, and compensation.For such legal services as it may require, an authority may call upon the chief law officer of the municipality or may employ its own counsel and legal staff.
3.A commissioner of an authority shall receive no compensation for his or her services, but may receive the necessary expenses, including traveling expenses, incurred in the discharge of his or her duties.Each commissioner shall hold office until a successor has been appointed.
4.For inefficiency or neglect of duty or misconduct in office, a commissioner of an authority may be removed by the mayor or chief executive officer of the municipality.
99.930.1.In any suit, action, or proceeding involving the validity or enforcement of or relating to any contract of an authority entered into pursuant to sections 99.915 to 99.980, such authority shall be conclusively deemed to have become established and authorized to transact business and exercise its powers under sections 99.915 to 99.980 upon proof of the adoption of the appropriate ordinance prescribed in section 99.921.Each such ordinance shall be deemed sufficient if it authorizes the exercise of powers under sections 99.915 to 99.980 by the authority and sets forth the findings of the municipality as required in subdivision (2) of section 99.921, but is not required to expressly state the details supporting such findings.
2.A copy of such ordinance duly certified by the clerk of the municipality shall be admissible in evidence in any suit, action, or proceeding.
3.No lawsuit to set aside the creation of an authority, the approval of a development plan, development project, development area or development project area, or a tax levied pursuant to sections 99.915 to 99.980, or to otherwise question the validity of the proceedings related thereto, shall be brought after the expiration of ninety days from the effective date of the ordinance or resolution in question.
99.933.1.The authority shall constitute a public body corporate and politic, exercising public and essential governmental functions and having all the powers necessary or convenient to carry out and effectuate the purposes and provisions of sections 99.915 to 99.980, including the following powers in addition to others granted pursuant to sections 99.915 to 99.980:
(1)To sue and to be sued; to have a seal and to alter the same at the authority's pleasure; to have perpetual succession; to make and execute contracts and other instruments necessary or convenient to the exercise of the powers of the authority; and to make and from time to time amend and repeal bylaws, rules, and regulations, not inconsistent with sections 99.915 to 99.980, to carry out the provisions of sections 99.915 to 99.980;
(2)To prepare or cause to be prepared and approved development plans and development projects to be considered at public hearings in accordance with sections 99.915 to 99.980 and to undertake and carry out development plans and development projects which have been adopted by ordinance;
(3)To arrange or contract for the furnishing or repair, by any person or agency, public or private, of services, privileges, streets, roads, public utilities, or other facilities for or in connection with any development project; and notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in sections 99.915 to 99.980 or any other provision of law, to agree to any conditions that it may deem reasonable and appropriate attached to federal financial assistance and imposed pursuant to federal law relating to the determination of prevailing salaries or wages or compliance with labor standards, in the undertaking or carrying out of any development project, and to include in any contract let in connection with any such development project provisions to fulfill such of the conditions as it may deem reasonable and appropriate;
(4)Within a development area, to acquire by purchase, lease, gift, grant, bequest, devise, or otherwise, or obtain options upon, any real or personal property or any interest therein, necessary or incidental to a development project, all in the manner and at such price as the authority determines is reasonably necessary to achieve the objectives of a development plan;
(5)Within a development area, subject to provisions of section 99.936 with regard to the disposition of real property, to sell, lease, exchange, transfer, assign, subdivide, retain for its own use, mortgage, pledge, hypothecate, or otherwise encumber or dispose of any real or personal property or any interest therein, all in the manner and at such price and subject to any covenants, restrictions, and conditions as the authority determines is reasonably necessary to achieve the objectives of a development plan; to make any such covenants, restrictions, or conditions as covenants running with the land, and to provide appropriate remedies for any breach of any such covenants, restrictions, or conditions, including the right in the authority to terminate such contracts and any interest in the property created pursuant thereto;
(6)Within a development area, to clear any area by demolition or removal of existing buildings and structures;
(7)To install, repair, construct, reconstruct, or relocate streets, utilities, and site improvements as necessary or desirable for the preparation of a development area for use in accordance with a development plan;
(8)Within a development area, to fix, charge, and collect fees, rents, and other charges for the use of any real or personal property, or any portion thereof, in which the authority has any interest;
(9)To accept grants, guarantees, and donations of property, labor, or other things of value from any public or private source for purposes of implementing a development plan;
(10)In accordance with section 99.936, to select one or more developers to implement a development plan, or one or more development projects, or any portion thereof;
(11)To charge as a development project cost the reasonable costs incurred by the authority, the department of economic development, the department of revenue or the office of administration in evaluating, administering, or implementing the development plan or any development project;
(12)To borrow money and issue obligations in accordance with sections 99.915 to 99.980 and provide security for any such loans or obligations;
(13)To insure or provide for the insurance of any real or personal property or operations of the authority against any risks or hazards, including the power to pay premiums on any such insurance; and to enter into any contracts necessary to effectuate the purposes of sections 99.915 to 99.980;
(14)Within a development area, to renovate, rehabilitate, construct, repair, or improve any improvements, buildings, parking garages, fixtures, structures, and other facilities;
(15)Within a development area to exercise all powers and perform all functions of a transportation development district pursuant to sections 238.200 to 238.275;
(16)To invest any funds held in reserves or sinking funds, or any funds not required for immediate disbursement, in property or securities in which savings banks may legally invest funds subject to their control; to redeem obligations at the redemption price established therein or to purchase obligations at less than redemption price, all obligations so redeemed or purchased to be canceled;
(17)To borrow money and to apply for and accept advances, loans, grants, contributions, and any other form of financial assistance from the federal government, the state, county, municipality, or other public body or from any sources, public or private, for the purposes of implementing a development plan, to give such security as may be required and to enter into and carry out contracts in connection therewith.An authority, notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, may include in any contract for financial assistance with the federal government for a project such conditions imposed pursuant to federal law as the authority may deem reasonable and appropriate and which are not inconsistent with the purposes of sections 99.915 to 99.980;
(18)To incur development project costs and make such expenditures as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of sections 99.915 to 99.980; and to make expenditures from funds obtained from the federal government without regard to any other laws pertaining to the making and approval of appropriations and expenditures;
(19)To delegate to a municipality or other public body any of the powers or functions of the authority with respect to the planning or undertaking of a development project, and any such municipality or public body is hereby authorized to carry out or perform such powers or functions for the authority;
(20)To receive and exercise powers delegated by any authority, agency, or agent of a municipality created pursuant to this chapter or chapter 353, RSMo;
(21)To loan the proceeds of obligations issued pursuant to sections 99.915 to 99.980 for the purpose of providing for the purchase, construction, extension, and improvement of public infrastructure related to a development project by a developer pursuant to a development contract approved by the authority in accordance with subdivision (2) of section 99.936;
(22)To declare any funds, or any portion thereof, in the special allocation fund to be excess funds, so long as such excess funds have not been pledged to the payment of outstanding obligations or outstanding development project costs, are not necessary for the payment of development project costs incurred or anticipated to be incurred, and are not required to pay baseline state sales taxes and baseline state withholding taxes to the director of revenue.Any such funds deemed to be excess shall be disbursed in the manner of surplus funds as provided in section 99.965;
(23)To pledge or otherwise expend funds deposited to the special allocation fund, or any portion thereof, except any portion that constitutes state sales taxes or state withholding taxes in amounts equal to state sales taxes or state withholding taxes for the baseline year, for the payment or reimbursement of development project costs incurred by the authority, the municipality, a developer selected by the authority in accordance with the provisions of section 99.936, or any other entity with the consent of the authority; to pledge or otherwise expend funds deposited to the special allocation fund, or any portion thereof, except any portion that constitutes baseline state sales taxes or baseline state withholding taxes, or to mortgage or otherwise encumber its property, or any portion thereof, for the payment of obligations issued to finance development project costs; provided, however, any such pledge or expenditure of economic activity taxes or other net new revenues shall be subject to annual appropriation by the municipality; and
(24)To exercise all powers or parts or combinations of powers necessary, convenient, or appropriate to undertake and carry out development plans and any development projects and all the powers granted pursuant to sections 99.915 to 99.980, excluding powers of eminent domain.
2.If any member of the governing body of the municipality, a commissioner of the authority, or an employee or consultant of the municipality or authority, involved in the planning and preparation of a development project, owns or controls an interest, direct or indirect, in any property included in a development project area, the individual shall disclose the same in writing to the clerk of the municipality, and shall also so disclose the dates, terms, and conditions of any disposition of any such interest, which disclosures shall be acknowledged by the governing body of the municipality and entered upon the minutes books of the governing body of the municipality.If an individual holds such an interest, then that individual shall refrain from any further official involvement in regard to a development project and from voting on any matter pertaining to such development project or communicating with other commissioners or members of the authority or the municipality concerning any matter pertaining to such development project.Furthermore, subject to the succeeding sentence, no such member, commissioner, employee, or consultant shall acquire any interest, direct or indirect, in any property in a development project area or proposed development project area, after either (a) such individual obtains knowledge of a development project, or (b) first public notice of such development project, or development project area pursuant to subsection 2 of section 99.951, whichever first occurs.At any time after one year from the adoption of an ordinance designating a development project area, any commissioner may acquire an interest in real estate located in a development project area so long as any such commissioner discloses such acquisition and refrains from voting on any matter related to the development project area in which the property acquired by such commissioner is located.
3.Each municipality shall establish a minority business plan to ensure that minority-owned businesses are provided good faith opportunities to participate in the procurement of goods and services within the development project areas.
99.936.Real property which is acquired by an authority in a development project area may be disposed of as follows:
(1)Within a development project area, the authority may sell, lease, exchange, or otherwise transfer real property, including land, improvements, and fixtures, or any interest therein, to any developer selected for a development project, or any portion thereof, in accordance with the development plan, subject to such covenants, conditions, and restrictions as may be deemed to be in the public interest or to carry out the purposes of sections 99.915 to 99.980.Such real property shall be sold, leased, or transferred at its fair market value for uses in accordance with the development plan; provided that such fair market value may be less than the cost of such property to the authority.In determining the fair market value of real property for uses in accordance with a development plan, the authority shall take into account and give consideration to the uses and purposes required by the development plan; the restrictions upon, and the covenants, conditions, and obligations assumed by the developer of such property; the objectives of the development plan; and such other matters as the authority shall specify as being appropriate.In fixing rental and sale prices, an authority shall give consideration to appraisals of the property for such uses made by experts employed by the authority;
(2)The authority shall, by public notice published in a newspaper having a general circulation in a development area, prior to selecting one or more developers for any development project, or any portion thereof, invite proposals from, and make available all pertinent information to, private developers or any persons interested in undertaking the development of such development project, or any portion thereof.Such notice shall be published at least once each week during the two weeks preceding the selection of a developer, shall identify the area of the development project or development projects, or any portion thereof, for which one or more developers are to be selected, and shall state that such further information as is available and may be obtained at the office of the authority.The authority shall consider all proposals and the financial and legal ability of the prospective developers to carry out their proposals.The authority may negotiate and enter into one or more contracts with any developer selected for the development of any such area for the development of such area by such developer in accordance with a development plan or for the sale or lease of any real property to any such developer in any such area for the purpose of developing such property in accordance with the development plan.The authority may enter into any such contract as it deems to be in the public interest and in furtherance of the purposes of sections 99.915 to 99.980; provided that the authority has, not less than ten days prior thereto, notified the governing body in writing of its intention to enter into such contract.Thereafter, the authority may execute such contract in accordance with the provisions of subdivision (1) of this section and deliver deeds, leases, and other instruments and take all steps necessary to effectuate such contract. In its discretion, the authority may, in accordance with the provisions of this subdivision, dispose of any real property in an area selected for a development project, or any portion thereof, to private developers for development under such reasonable competitive bidding procedures as it shall prescribe, subject to the provisions of subdivision (1) of this section;
(3)In carrying out a development project, the authority may:
(a)Convey to the municipality such real property as, in accordance with the development plan, is to be dedicated as public right-of-way for streets, sidewalks, alleys, or other public ways, this power being additional to and not limiting any and all other powers of conveyance of property to municipalities expressed, generally or otherwise, in sections 99.915 to 99.980;
(b)Grant servitudes, easements, and rights-of-way for public utilities, sewers, streets, and other similar facilities, in accordance with the development plan; and
(c)Convey to the municipality or other appropriate public body such real property as, in accordance with the development plan, is to be used for parks, schools, public buildings, facilities, or other public purposes;
(4)The authority may operate and maintain real property in the development area pending the disposition or development of the property in accordance with a development plan, without regard to the provisions of subdivisions (1) and (2) of this section, for such uses and purposes as may be deemed desirable even though not in conformity with the development plan.
99.939.1.Any home rule city with more than four hundred thousand inhabitants and located in more than one county, any county with a charter form of government and with more than one million inhabitants, and any city not within a county may by ordinance establish a fund for the purpose of providing funds to community development corporations in such city for comprehensive programs within such city to stimulate economic development, housing, and other public benefits leading to the development of economically sustainable neighborhoods or communities, such fund to be known as the "community development corporation revolving fund".
2.The community development corporation revolving fund shall be administered by a community development corporation revolving fund board, which shall consist of thirteen members appointed by the mayor or chief executive officer of such municipality, of which one shall be a member of the local regional community development association, and one shall be an owner of a minority business.The initial members shall serve staggered terms of one, two, and three years as determined by the mayor or chief executive officer of the municipality at the time of appointment.Thereafter, successor members shall be appointed by the mayor or chief executive officer for a term of three years, and shall hold office until a successor is appointed.Any member may be removed by the mayor or chief executive officer for inefficiency, neglect of duty, or misconduct.All vacancies shall be filled by appointment of the mayor or chief executive officer for the unexpired term.No member shall receive compensation for the member's services, but may receive necessary and reasonable expenses, including travel expenses, incurred in the discharge of the member's duties.
3.Beginning January 1, 2004, up to five percent of the state sales tax increment portion of other net new revenues generated by development projects certified for state supplemental downtown development financing pursuant to sections 99.915 to 99.980, but not being used for state supplemental downtown development financing, may be available for appropriation by the general assembly to the state supplemental downtown development fund, from the general revenue fund, for the purpose of providing grants to cities or counties as set forth herein.A city or county described in subsection 1 of this section may, upon application to the department of economic development, receive a grant for deposit into the city or county community development corporation revolving fund for the purposes of funding a community development corporation revolving fund program pursuant to subsection 4 of this section.Any city or county otherwise eligible shall not be denied participation in the grant program due to a lack of projects certified for state supplemental downtown development financing, but such grants shall be limited to incremental revenues generated from certified projects in any city or county described in subsection 1 of this section.At no time shall the sum of the grants exceed one million five hundred thousand dollars annually.
4.From money granted to a city or county described in subsection 1 of this section for deposit in the community development corporation revolving fund, the city or county, through the community development corporation revolving fund board, shall provide grants and forgivable loans to community development corporations in such municipality for community economic development activities implemented by such corporations.The board shall give special funding consideration to collaborations on community development projects between developers organized for-profit and nonprofit developers.All expenses for such projects shall be paid for out of the community development corporation revolving fund.Any money appropriated, all payments in lieu of taxes, as defined in section 99.918, and any other money made available by gift, grant, bequest, contribution, or otherwise to carry out the purposes of this section, and all interest earned on, and income generated from, money in the fund shall be paid to, and deposited in, the community development corporation revolving fund.
99.942.1.A development plan shall set forth in writing a general description of the program to be undertaken to accomplish the development projects and related objectives and shall include, but need not be limited to:
(1)The estimated development project costs;
(2)The anticipated sources of funds to pay such development project costs;
(3)Evidence of the commitments to finance such development project costs;
(4)The anticipated type and term of the sources of funds to pay such development project costs;
(5)The anticipated type and terms of the obligations to be issued;
(6)The most recent equalized assessed valuation of the property within the development project area;
(7)An estimate as to the equalized assessed valuation after the development project area is developed in accordance with a development plan; and
(8)The general land uses to apply in the development area.
2.For any home rule city with more than four hundred thousand inhabitants and located in more than one county, for any county with a charter form of government and with more than one million inhabitants, and for any city not within a county, the authority shall be required in connection with the designation of the development area, development projects, and development project areas, to work with local community development corporations, as defined in subsection 3 of section 135.400, RSMo, with a goal that over the term of the development plan five percent of the funds generated pursuant to section 99.957 will be expended in connection with such projects.
3.The development plan may be adopted by a municipality in reliance on findings that:
(1)The development area on the whole is a blighted area or a conservation area;
(2)The development area has not been subject to growth and development through investment by private enterprise and would not reasonably be anticipated to be developed without the implementation of one or more development projects and the adoption of development financing;
(3)The development plan conforms to the comprehensive plan for the development of the municipality as a whole;
(4)The estimated dates, which shall not be more than twenty-five years from the adoption of the ordinance approving any development project, of the completion of such development project and retirement of obligations incurred to finance development project costs have been stated, provided that no ordinance approving a development project shall be adopted later than fifteen years from the adoption of the ordinance approving the development plan and provided that no property for a development project shall be acquired by eminent domain later than ten years from the adoption of the ordinance approving such development plan;
(5)In the event any business or residence is to be relocated as a direct result of the implementation of the development plan, a plan has been developed for relocation assistance for businesses and residences;
(6)A cost-benefit analysis showing the economic impact of the development plan on the municipality and school districts that are at least partially within the boundaries of the development area.The analysis shall show the impact on the economy if the development projects are not built pursuant to the development plan under consideration.The cost-benefit analysis shall include a fiscal impact study on each municipality and school district which is at least partially within the boundaries of the development area, and sufficient information from the authority to evaluate whether each development project as proposed is financially feasible; and
(7)The development plan does not include the initial development or redevelopment of any gambling establishment.
99.945.In the event a county of this state desires to designate a development area located in whole or in part within the boundaries of another municipality, such county shall first obtain the permission of the governing body of such other municipality.
99.948.1.A municipality may:
(1)Approve by ordinance the exercise by the authority of the powers, functions, and duties of the authority under sections 99.915 to 99.980;
(2)After adopting an ordinance in accordance with subdivision (1) of this subsection and after receipt of recommendations from the authority in accordance with subsection 2 of this section, by ordinance, designate development areas and adopt the development plans, development projects, designate a development project area for each development project adopted, and adopt development financing for each such development project area.No development plan may be adopted until the development area is designated.No development project shall be adopted until the development plan is adopted and the development project area for each development project shall be designated at the time of adopting the development project; and
(3)Exercise the powers, duties, or functions of the authority under sections 99.915 to 99.980.
2.The authority shall hold public hearings and provide notice pursuant to sections 99.957 and 99.960.Within ten days following the completion of any such public hearing, the authority shall vote on, and shall make recommendation to the governing body of the municipality with regard to, any development plan, development projects, designation of a development area or amendments thereto which were proposed at such public hearing.
99.951.1.Prior to the adoption of the ordinance designating a development area, adopting a development plan, or approving a development project, the authority shall fix a time and place for a public hearing and notify each taxing district located wholly or partially within the boundaries of the proposed development area or development project area affected.Such notice shall comply with the provisions of subsection 2 of this section.At the public hearing any interested person or affected taxing district may file with the authority written objections to, or comments on, and may be heard orally in respect to, any issues embodied in the notice.The authority shall hear and consider all protests, objections, comments, and other evidence presented at the hearing.The hearing may be continued to another date without further notice other than a motion to be entered upon the minutes fixing the time and place of the subsequent hearing.Prior to the conclusion of the hearing, changes may be made in the development plan, development project, development area or development project area, provided that written notice of such changes is available at the public hearing.After the public hearing but prior to the adoption of an ordinance designating a development area, adopting a development plan or approving a development project, changes may be made to any such proposed development plan, development project, development area, or development project area without a further hearing, if such changes do not enlarge the exterior boundaries of the development area, and do not substantially affect the general land uses established in a development plan or development project, provided that notice of such changes shall be given by mail to each affected taxing district and by publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the development area or development project area, as applicable, not less than ten days prior to the adoption of the changes by ordinance.After the adoption of an ordinance designating the development area, adopting a development plan, approving a development project, or designating a development project area, no ordinance shall be adopted altering the exterior boundaries of the development area or a development project area, affecting the general land uses established pursuant to the development plan or the general nature of a development project without holding a public hearing in accordance with this section.One public hearing may be held for the simultaneous consideration of a development area, development plan, development project, or development project area.
2.Notice of the public hearing required by section 99.951 shall be given by publication and mailing.Notice by publication shall be given by publication at least twice, the first publication to be not more than thirty days and the second publication to be not more than ten days prior to the hearing, in a newspaper of general circulation in the proposed development area or development project area, as applicable, and in two minority newspapers, if such newspapers are published in the municipality, of which one shall be published in the Spanish language, if such a newspaper is published in the municipality.Notice by mailing shall be given by depositing such notice in the United States mail by certified mail addressed to the person or persons in whose name the general taxes for the last preceding year were paid on each lot, block, tract, or parcel of land lying within the proposed development area or development project area, as applicable, which is to be subjected to the payment or payments in lieu of taxes and economic activity taxes pursuant to section 99.957.Such notice shall be mailed not less than ten days prior to the date set for the public hearing.In the event taxes for the last preceding year were not paid, the notice shall also be sent to the persons last listed on the tax rolls within the preceding three years as the owners of such property.
3.The notices issued pursuant to this section shall include the following:
(1)The time and place of the public hearing;
(2)The general boundaries of the proposed development area or development project area, as applicable, by street location, where possible;
(3)A statement that all interested persons shall be given an opportunity to be heard at the public hearing;
(4)A description of the development plan and the proposed development projects and a location and time where the entire development plan or development projects proposed may be reviewed by any interested party;
(5)An estimate of other net new revenues; and
(6)Such other matters as the authority may deem appropriate.
4.Not less than forty-five days prior to the date set for the public hearing, the authority shall give notice by mail as provided in subsection 2 of this section to all taxing districts with jurisdiction over taxable property in the development area or development project area, as applicable, and in addition to the other requirements pursuant to subsection 3 of this section, the notice shall include an invitation to each taxing district to submit comments to the authority concerning the subject matter of the hearing prior to the date of the hearing.
5.A copy of any and all hearing notices required by section 99.951 shall be submitted by the authority to the director of the department of economic development and the time such notices are mailed or published, as applicable.
99.954.1.For the purpose of financing development project costs, obligations may be issued by the municipality, or, at the request of the municipality, by the authority or any other political subdivision authorized to issue bonds, but in no event by the state, to pay or reimburse development project costs.Such obligations, when so issued, shall be retired in the manner provided in the ordinance or resolution authorizing the issuance of such obligations.
2.Obligations issued pursuant to sections 99.915 to 99.980 may be issued in one or more series bearing interest at such rate or rates as the issuing entity shall determine by ordinance or resolution.Such obligations shall bear such date or dates, be in such denomination, carry such registration privileges, be executed in such manner, be payable in such medium of payment at such place or places, contain such covenants, terms, and conditions, and be subject to redemption as such ordinance or resolution shall provide.Obligations issued pursuant to sections 99.915 to 99.980 may be sold at public or private sale at such price as shall be determined by the issuing entity and shall state that obligations issued pursuant to sections 99.915 to 99.980 are special obligations payable solely from the funds specifically pledged. No referendum approval of the electors shall be required as a condition to the issuance of obligations pursuant to sections 99.915 to 99.980.
3.In the event the obligations contain a recital that they are issued pursuant to sections 99.915 to 99.980, such recital shall be conclusive evidence of their validity and of the regularity of their issuance.
4.Neither the municipality, the authority, or any other entity issuing such obligations, or the members, commissioners, directors, or the officers of any such entities nor any person executing any obligation shall be personally liable for such obligation by reason of the issuance thereof.The obligations issued pursuant to sections 99.915 to 99.980 shall not be a general obligation of the state, the municipality, or any political subdivision thereof, nor in any event shall such obligation be payable out of any funds or properties other than those specifically pledged as security for such obligations.The obligations shall not constitute indebtedness within the meaning of any constitutional, statutory, or charter debt limitation or restriction.
5.Obligations issued pursuant to sections 99.915 to 99.980 may be issued to refund, in whole or in part, obligations theretofore issued by such entity under the authority of sections 99.915 to 99.980, whether at or prior to maturity; provided, however, that the last maturity of the refunding obligations shall not be expressed to mature later than the last maturity date of the obligations to be refunded.
6.In the event a municipality or authority issues obligations under home rule powers or other legislative authority, the proceeds of which are pledged to pay for development project costs, the municipality may retire such obligations from funds in the special allocation fund in amounts and in such manner as if such obligations had been issued pursuant to the provisions of sections 99.915 to 99.980.
99.957.1.A municipality, after designating a development area, adopting a development plan, and adopting any development project in conformance with the procedures of sections 99.915 to 99.980, may adopt development financing for the development project area selected for any such development project by passing an ordinance.Upon the adoption of the first of any such ordinances, the municipality shall establish, or shall direct the authority to establish, a special allocation fund for the development area.
2.Immediately upon the adoption of a resolution or ordinance adopting development financing for a development project area pursuant to subsection 1 of this section, the county assessor shall determine the total equalized assessed value of all taxable real property within such development project area by adding together the most recently ascertained equalized assessed value of each taxable lot, block, tract, or parcel of real property within such development project area as of the date of the adoption of such resolution or ordinance and shall provide to the clerk of the municipality written certification of such amount as the total initial equalized assessed value of the taxable real property within such development project area.
3.In each of the twenty-five calendar years following the adoption of an ordinance adopting development financing for a development project area pursuant to subsection 1 of this section unless and until development financing for such development project area is terminated by ordinance of the municipality, the ad valorem taxes, and payments in lieu of taxes, if any, arising from the levies upon taxable real property in such development project area by taxing districts at the tax rates determined in the manner provided in section 99.968 shall be divided as follows:
(1)That portion of taxes, penalties, and interest levied upon each taxable lot, block, tract, or parcel of real property in such development project area which is attributable to the initial equalized assessed value of each such taxable lot, block, tract, or parcel of real property in such development project area as certified by the county assessor in accordance with subsection 2 of this section shall be allocated to and, when collected, shall be paid by the collecting authority to the respective affected taxing districts in the manner required by law in the absence of the adoption of development financing;
(2)Payments in lieu of taxes attributable to the increase in the current equalized assessed valuation of each taxable lot, block, tract, or parcel of real property in the development project area and any applicable penalty and interest over and above the initial equalized assessed value of each such taxable lot, block, tract, or parcel of real property in such development project area as certified by the county assessor in accordance with subsection 2 of this section shall be allocated to and, when collected, shall be paid to the collecting officer of the municipality who shall deposit such payment in lieu of taxes into a separate segregated account for payments in lieu of taxes within the special fund.Payments in lieu of taxes which are due and owing shall constitute a lien against the real property from which such payments in lieu of taxes are derived and shall be collected in the same manner as real property taxes, including the assessment of penalties and interest where applicable.The lien of payments in lieu of taxes may be foreclosed in the same manner as the lien of real property taxes.No part of the current equalized assessed valuation of each lot, block, tract, or parcel of property in any such development project area attributable to any increase above the initial equalized assessed value of each such taxable lot, block, tract, or parcel of real property in such development project area as certified by the county assessor in accordance with subsection 2 of this section shall be used in calculating the general state school aid formula provided for in section 163.031, RSMo, until development financing for such development project area expires or is terminated in accordance with sections 99.915 to 99.980;
(3)For purposes of this section, "levies upon taxable real property in such development area by taxing districts" shall not include the blind pension fund tax levied under the authority of section 38(b), article III, of the Missouri Constitution, the merchants' and manufacturers' inventory replacement tax levied under the authority of subsection 2 of section 6 of article X of the Missouri Constitution, the desegregation sales tax, or the conservation taxes.
4.In each of the twenty-five calendar years following the adoption of an ordinance or resolution adopting development financing for a development project area pursuant to subsection 1 of this section unless and until development financing for such development project area is terminated in accordance with sections 99.915 to 99.980, fifty percent of the economic activity taxes from such development project area shall be allocated to, and paid by the collecting officer of any such economic activity tax to, the treasurer or other designated financial officer of the municipality, who shall deposit such funds in a separate segregated account for economic activity taxes within the special allocation fund.
99.960.1.A municipality may submit an application to the Missouri development finance board for approval of the use of other net new revenues to fund one or more development projects through state supplemental downtown development financing.An application submitted to the Missouri development finance board shall contain the following, in addition to the items set forth in section 99.942:
(1)An estimate that one hundred percent of the payments in lieu of taxes and economic activity taxes deposited to the special allocation fund must and will be used to pay development project costs or obligations issued to finance development project costs to achieve the objectives of the development plan.Contributions to the development project from any private not-for-profit organization or local contributions from tax abatement or other sources may be substituted on a dollar for dollar basis for the local match of one hundred percent of payments in lieu of taxes and economic activity taxes from the fund;
(2)Identification of the existing businesses located within the development project area and the development area;
(3)The aggregate baseline year amount of state sales tax revenues and the aggregate baseline year amount of state income tax withheld on behalf of existing employees, reported by existing businesses within the development project area.Provisions of section 32.057 notwithstanding, the department of revenue will provide this information to municipalities within ten business days of receiving a request from a municipality for such information;
(4)An estimate of the state sales tax increment and state income tax increment within the development project area after redevelopment;
(5)An affidavit that is signed by the developer or developers attesting that the provision of subdivision (2) of subsection 3 of section 99.942 has been met and specifying that the development area would not be reasonably anticipated to be developed without the appropriation of the other net new revenues;
(6)The amounts and types of other net new revenues sought by the applicant as state supplemental downtown development financing;
(7)The methodologies and underlying assumptions used in determining the estimate of the state sales tax increment and the state income tax increment;
(8)Any other information reasonably requested by the Missouri development finance board.
2.The Missouri development finance board shall make all reasonable efforts to process applications within sixty days of receipt of the application.
3.The Missouri development finance board shall make a determination regarding state supplemental downtown development financing and shall forward such determination to the director of the department of economic development.In no event shall the amount of state supplemental downtown development financing approved for a project, in addition to any other economic development funding or incentives, exceed the projected state benefit of the development project, as determined by the department of economic development.Upon approval of state supplemental downtown development financing, a certificate of approval shall be issued by the department of economic development containing the terms and limitations of the financing.
4.At no time shall the annual amount of other net new revenues approved for state supplemental downtown development financing exceed one hundred million dollars.
5.Development projects receiving other net new revenues shall be limited to receiving such revenues for fifteen years, unless specific approval for a longer term is given by the director of the department of economic development and the commissioner of the office of administration, as set forth in the certificate of approval; except that, in no case shall the duration exceed twenty-five years.The approved term notwithstanding, state supplemental downtown development financing shall terminate when development financing for a development project is terminated by a municipality;
6.The municipality shall deposit other net new revenues in a separate segregated account for other net new revenues within the special allocation fund.
7.The department of economic development may charge a reasonable fee, to be submitted with an application for state supplemental downtown development financing, in an amount reasonably estimated to recover the costs for personnel and other expenses incurred by the department of revenue, the department of economic development, the office of administration and the Missouri development finance board in processing the application.Such fees shall be deposited into the state supplemental downtown development fund created under section 99.963.
8.Development project costs may include, at the prerogative of the state, the portion of salaries and expenses of the department of economic development and the department of revenue reasonably allocable to each development project approved for state supplemental downtown development financing for the ongoing administrative functions associated with such development project.Such amounts shall be deposited into the state supplemental downtown development fund created under section 99.963.
9.A development project approved for state supplemental downtown development financing may not thereafter elect to receive tax increment financing pursuant to the real property tax increment allocation redevelopment act, sections 99.800 to 99.865, and continue to receive state supplemental downtown development financing pursuant to sections 99.915 to 99.980.
10.The director of the department of economic development shall issue regulations and publish forms to implement the provisions of this section and section 99.963.
99.963.1.There is hereby established within the state treasury a special fund to be known as the "State Supplemental Downtown Development Fund", to be administered by the department of economic development.The fund shall consist of money:
(1)Appropriated from the general revenue fund;
(2)Received from fees charged pursuant to subsection 8 of section 99.960;
(3)Received from costs charged pursuant to subsection 9 of section 99.960; and
(4)From any gifts, contributions, grants or bequests received from federal, private or other sources.
2.The general assembly may annually appropriate, into the state supplemental downtown development fund an amount not to exceed an amount equal to: 1) other net new revenues generated by the development projects during the prior fiscal year plus fifty million dollars, or 2) one hundred fifty million dollars; whichever is less.
3.The department of economic development shall annually disburse state supplemental downtown development financing from the state supplemental downtown development fund in amounts determined pursuant to the certificates of approval for projects, providing all of the conditions of sections 99.915 to 99.980 are met.If the revenues appropriated into the state supplemental downtown development fund are not sufficient to equal the amounts determined to be disbursed pursuant to such certificates of approval, the department of economic development shall disburse the revenues on a pro rata basis to all such projects and other costs approved pursuant to section 5 of this section.
4.Money in the state supplemental downtown development fund may be spent for the reasonable and necessary costs associated with the administration of the program authorized under sections 99.915 to 99.980.
5.No municipality shall obligate or commit the expenditure of other net new revenues prior to receiving a certificate of approval for the development project generating such other net new revenues.
99.965.1.When all development project costs and all obligations issued to finance development project costs have been paid in full, the municipality shall adopt an ordinance terminating development financing for all development project areas.Immediately upon the adoption of such ordinance, all payments in lieu of taxes, all economic activity taxes, and other net new revenues then remaining in the special allocation fund shall be deemed to be surplus funds; and thereafter, the rates of the taxing districts shall be extended and taxes levied, collected, and distributed in the manner applicable in the absence of the adoption of development financing.Surplus payments in lieu of taxes shall be paid to the county collector who shall immediately thereafter pay such funds to the taxing districts in the development area selected in the same manner and proportion as the most recent distribution by the collector to the affected taxing districts of real property taxes from real property in the development area.Surplus economic activity taxes shall be paid to the taxing districts in the development area in proportion to the then current levy rates of such taxing districts that are attributable to economic activity taxes.Surplus other net new revenues shall be paid to the state.Any other funds remaining in the special allocation fund following the adoption of an ordinance terminating development financing in accordance with this section shall be deposited to the general fund of the municipality.
2.Upon the payment of all development project costs, retirement of obligations, and the distribution of any surplus funds pursuant to this section, the municipality shall adopt an ordinance dissolving the special allocation fund and terminating the designation of the development area as a development area.
3.Nothing in sections 99.915 to 99.980 shall be construed as relieving property in such areas from paying a uniform rate of taxes, as required by article X, section 3 of the Missouri Constitution.
99.968.In each of the twenty-five calendar years following the adoption of an ordinance adopting development financing for a development project area, unless and until development financing for such development project area is terminated by ordinance of the municipality, then, in respect to every taxing district containing such development project area, the county clerk, or any other official required by law to ascertain the amount of the equalized assessed value of all taxable property within such development project area for the purpose of computing any debt service levies to be extended upon taxable property within such development project area, shall in every year that development financing is in effect ascertain the amount of value of taxable property in such development project area by including in such amount the certified total initial equalized assessed value of all taxable real property in such development project area in lieu of the equalized assessed value of all taxable real property in such development project area.For the purpose of measuring the size of payments in lieu of taxes under sections 99.915 to 99.980, all tax levies shall then be extended to the current equalized assessed value of all property in the development project area in the same manner as the tax rate percentage is extended to all other taxable property in the taxing district.
99.971.Beginning in 2008, and every five years thereafter, a joint committee of the general assembly, comprised of five members appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives and five members appointed by the president pro tempore of the senate, shall review sections 99.915 to 99.980.A report based on such review, with any recommended legislative changes, shall be submitted to the speaker of the house of representatives and the president pro tempore of the senate no later than February first following the year in which the review is conducted.
99.980.1.By the last day of February each year, the authority shall report to the director of the department of economic development the name, address, phone number, and primary line of business of any business which relocates to the development area.
2.Each year the governing body of the municipality, or its designee, shall prepare a report concerning the status of the development plan, the development area, and the included development projects, and shall submit a copy of such report to the director of the department of economic development.The report shall include the following:
(1)The amount and source of revenue in the special allocation fund;
(2)The amount and purpose of expenditures from the special allocation fund;
(3)The amount of any pledge of revenues, including principal and interest on any outstanding bonded indebtedness;
(4)The original assessed value of the development area;
(5)The assessed valuation added to the development area;
(6)Payments made in lieu of taxes received and expended;
(7)The economic activity taxes generated within the development area in the baseline year;
(8)The economic activity taxes generated within the development area after the baseline year;
(9)Reports on contracts made incident to the implementation and furtherance of a development area, the development plan, and the included development projects;
(10)A copy of the development plan;
(11)The cost of any property acquired, disposed of, rehabilitated, reconstructed, repaired, or remodeled;
(12)The number of parcels acquired by or through initiation of eminent domain proceedings;
(13)For municipalities with more than four hundred thousand inhabitants, the number of development projects developed in connection with community development corporations and the amount of funds generated pursuant to section 99.957 which are expended in connection with such project; and
(14)Any additional information the department of economic development deems necessary.
3.Data contained in the report mandated pursuant to the provisions of subsection 1 of this section and any information regarding amounts disbursed to municipalities pursuant to the provisions of section 99.957 and 99.960 shall be deemed a public record, as defined in section 610.010, RSMo.
4.The director of the department of economic development shall submit a report to the governor, the speaker of the house of representatives, and the president pro tempore of the senate no later than April thirtieth of each year.The report shall contain a summary of all information received by the director of economic development pursuant to subsection 2 of this section.
5.An annual statement showing the payments made in lieu of taxes received and expended in that year, the status of the development area, the development plan, and the development projects in the development plan, the amount of outstanding obligations, and any additional information that the municipality deems necessary shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipality.
6.Five years after the establishment of the development area and the development plan and every five years thereafter the governing body of the authority shall hold a public hearing regarding the development area and the development plan and the development projects adopted pursuant to sections 99.915 to 99.980.The purpose of the hearing shall be to determine if the development area, development plan, and the included development projects are making satisfactory progress under the proposed time schedule contained within the approved development plan for completion of such development projects.Notice of such public hearing shall be given in a newspaper of general circulation in the area served by the authority once each week for four weeks immediately prior to the hearing.