(Audubon) A key item on the Audubon County Board of Supervisor’s agenda this week was a County Property Tax Abatement.
Supervisor’s Chairman Doug Sorensen suggested a three part proposal for residential, commercial and industrial growth, and commercial and industrial new business. “There’s a big thing. We began talking about a week ago. There’s an economic development opportunity in particular that is asking for property tax abatement and opened up the discussion about doing a county wide policy.”
He adds Audubon County Economic Development has a number of things on the docket. “Audubon County Economic Development has a number of things on the agenda that could benefit from a property tax abatement to get things happening in Audubon. We just opened up the discussion on doing a count wide tax abatement policy.”
Sorensen points out other surrounding towns and counties have policies in place. “To try and get things to happen that otherwise would not happen. I guess that’s the measure of whether it’s a good policy. We discussed it and it has been tabled until next week, but this one economic development opportunity is kind of pushing the issue so hopefully a week from now we’ll have something more to report.”
Sorensen says a county wide policy may take a bit of time to get done, but would be a good thing. He notes anything they can do to get more housing built will be a long term benefit.
