Evanston’s Joint Review Board will meet to discuss the creation of a tax increment financing district in the 5th Ward next Monday a change that would divert future property tax revenue increases toward development.
In tax increment financing districts, or TIF districts, property tax revenues above a certain baseline are reallocated for public works or economic development improvements in the area. When a TIF district is installed, the existing tax rate becomes the baseline. Property tax revenue above this rate is reserved for development projects.
“Taxes are frozen for the city and the schools at today’s tax rate,” said former 7th Ward aldermanic candidate Mary Rosinski.
Eric Nam and Tracy Chou joined PIH experts Dr. Ksakrad Kelly and Dr. Mary Yang for a conversation about racism and mental health, in light of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month and Mental Health Action Day.
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Caue Suplicy, 42, is the founder of Barnana, a San Diego-based snack company that makes its products with bananas and plantains that can t be exported internationally to supermarkets. (The bananas will ripen too quickly to make the journey and the plantains come from an excess supply.) Suplicy hails from Curitiba, Brazil, a city known for its sustainability effort to recycle over 70 percent of its residents garbage. The former professional triathlete is also a founding member of the nonprofit Upcycled Food Association, a coalition of global organizations aiming to reduce food waste. Inspired by his favorite childhood snack, Suplicy launched Barnana in 2012 after a trip to Brazil when he noticed that local banana farmers were tossing up to 20 percent of their stock, bananas too ripe or too large to be exported. Now, Barnana partners with nearly 2,000 family farms many of which belong to struggling indigenous communities in the Amazon to bring its