ignite cda OKs $6.5M Budget

Ignite cda board members passed a budget Wednesday despite objections at a 20-minute public hearing. Coeur d’Alene’s urban renewal agency, formerly known as Lake City Development Corp., is expected to receive $6.5 million in tax increment funds in the 2015-16 fiscal year. However prior to the hearing, two members of the community - Amy Lyons and Ray Writz - asked the board to postpone making any budget decision at all. “I have nothing to say about the budget,” Lyons said. “The reason is that this (a response to her public records request for detailed budget information) arrived on my doorstep a couple hours ago. There’s no way in the world that I could review this in that amount of time to make a meaningful comment on the budget”/ Keith Cousins, Press. More here.