Tippecanoe County pulls out of Dayton TIF district

The surveying work for this project has already been completed, and since the town pulled out, they will have to pay for all of the surveying work that has been done.

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They are doing so because the town board tabled a project that would expand yost road.

I talked with both county and town boar officials about what this means for both areas.

(nats( dayton road has its fair share of traffic.

"this road has been both in our long range transportation plan and the joint dayton land use plan for over 30 years" -sallie fahey the road sallie fahey is referring to is yost road.

The county entered in to a tif agreement with the town of dayton to build the road.

That agreement would have relieved traffic off of dayton road..

But now that the town of dayton has tabled the project..

The county is parting ways..

Which is costing dayton tax payers.

"because the town of dayton has pulled out of the project the town of dayton will have to reimburse the feds the 80 percent..

So the town will have to pay 100 percent of the surveying work that has already been completed."-tom according to tippecanoe county commissioner tom murtaugh, the town of dayton will now owe 40,628 dollars to the federal government..

And originally they would have only had to pay 20 percent of that.

"i think this will have a long reaching impact for generations it was a very poor decision on the town boards part and i feel bad it happened for the citizens of dayton."- ashley stevenson .

Stevenson is the only member of the dayton town board who voted to moved forward with the project.

Town board president ron koehler says even though it's costing tax payers money now the rest of the board feels in the long run they will save tax payer dollars.

"i think we are going to save a lot of money in the long run and not lose money and we will make that money up by no completing a project that we don't even know what all our costs are and how much of a return."- koehler however county officials say this decision could cost dayton more money if the project never happens.

"there is the potential that if the project is never built that even the federal money that would have gone to construction might have to paid back.

That's an issue that will have to be crossed down the road."-fahey county commissioner tom murtaugh says now that dayton has pulled out of the contract around 300- thousand dollars they had dedicated to that project can now no longer be used in 20-20.

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