City Commission holds meeting Monday

TIRZ, senior-living development headline agenda.

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The City of Pampa Commissioners held a regularly-scheduled meeting on Monday afternoon.

The meeting was started with a presentation from Travis James of TXP, Inc. concerning the process the City will go through for designating Downtown Pampa at Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone (TIRZ).

“A TIRZ is a tool local governments use to pay for improvements,” James said. “It is not a tax increase. You draw a geographic boundary and you agree to put some percent of your future property tax revenue into a dedicated fund to be spent in that boundary.

“If we think of Downtown as a square, we say for the next 25 to 30 years we’re going to put 50, 75 or 100 percent of future property tax revenue into that zone to be spent. Typically, other taxing entities join like a county, community college, etc. Then you pull your resources to pay for public improvements in that downtown area.”

The City could possibly get a TIRZ set up for 2022. The purpose of a TIRZ is to do economic development, demolish property, hire professionals, interest, issue debt, etc.

James gave a lengthy presentation that did include the map that has been discussed for Pampa, which encompasses the bulk of the downtown area. There are steps involved in creating a TIRZ, including a public hearing and a board to be created. Eventually a project plan has to be created and presented.

Later in the meeting, the Commissioners had another presentation from Ryan Garcia of JDS Holdings about a senior-living apartment building his company would like to bring to Pampa.

This is the second time Garcia has presented the project to the City of Pampa. Last year, the project fell just short.

“We had submitted it last year and it was a high-scoring one,” Garcia said. “Unfortunately, we did so well in other regions winning this project would have put us over our max credit allocation and the State did not let us get it. It’s going to be the exact same application this year.”

The site of the project is set for the northwest corner of Sumner and Somerville with six six-plexes with a community building and dog-park. It’ll have 12 one-bedroom units and 24 two-bedroom units, all age-restricted.

Construction on the project will tentatively start in January 2023 as JDS needs to go through the process of getting the Housing Tax Credit.

The Commissioners also approved the following items:

• Minutes of the Sept. 27, 2021 Regular Commission Meeting as presented.

• Absence of Commissioner Paul Searl from the Sept. 27, 2021 Regular Commission Meeting.

• Resolution No. R21-035, a Resolution by the City Commission continuing Executive Order GA-34 and extending to Nov. 22, 2021, the City of Pampa’s Declaration of Local Disaster Order.

• Ordinance No. 1756, an Ordinance by the City Commission amending the revenues and appropriations for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, 2020 and ending Sept. 30, 2021.

• List of Disbursements dated September 2021.

• Casting the City of Pampa’s voting entitlement of 728 votes to a nominee or nominees for a position on the Gray County Appraisal District’s Board of Directors.

CONSENT AGENDA - All Consent Agenda items are considered routine in nature by the

Commission and will be enacted by one motion. There will be no separate discussion on these

items unless a Commissioner so request, in which event that item will be removed from the

Consent Agenda and considered in normal sequence on the Agenda.

• Bid to Keith Kelley in the amount of $300.00 for delinquent tax property located at Lot 6, Block 4, Cuyler Addition, commonly known as 522 S. Ballard.

  Fabian I. Soto in the amount of $500.00 for delinquent tax property located at Lot 3, Block 2, Cohen Addition, commonly known as 407 Maple.

• Bid to Keith Kelley in the amount of $500.00 for delinquent tax property located at Lots 5 thru 7, Block 2, Cohen Addition, commonly known as 411 Maple.

• Bid to Sergio A. Romo-Garcia in the amount of$1,200.00 for delinquent tax property located at Lots 9, 10 and N 38’ of Lot 8, Block 1, Meador Addition. Common address unknown.

• Bid to Keith Kelley in the amount of $300.00 for delinquent tax property located at Lots 6 and 7, Block 32, Wilcox Addition, commonly known as 708 Scott.

• Bid to Cierra Balderas in the amount of $5,000.00 for delinquent tax property located at Lot 13, Block 26, Talley Addition, commonly known as 520 N. Doyle.