Office of the City Clerk - Record #: O2015-6174

• Record #: O2015-6174
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• Intro date: 7/29/2015
• Current Controlling Legislative Body: Committee on Finance
• Final action: 9/24/2015
• Title: Intergovernmental agreement with Chicago Board of Education for provision of Tax Increment Financing (TIF) assistance for construction of three-story addition at Walter Payton College Preparatory High School
• Sponsors: Emanuel, Rahm
• Topic: AGREEMENTS - Intergovernmental

Date	Journal Page Number	Action By	Action	Result
9/24/2015	5079	City Council	Passed	Pass
9/21/2015		Committee on Finance	Recommended to Pass	Pass
7/29/2015	2183	City Council	Referred

ORDINANCE
WHEREAS, the City of Chicago (the "City") is a municipal corporation and home rule unit of government under Article VII, Section 6(a) of the 1970 Constitution of the State of Illinois, and as such, may exercise any power and perform any function pertaining to its government and affairs; and

WHEREAS, the Board of Education of the City of Chicago (the "Board") is a body corporate and politic, organized under and existing pursuant to Article 34 of the School Code of the State of Illinois, 105 ILCS 5/1-1 et seq.; and

WHEREAS, pursuant to the provisions of an act to authorize the creation of public building commissions and to define their rights, powers and duties under the Public Building Commission Act (50 ILCS 20/1 et seq.), the City Council of the City (the "City Council") created the Public Building Commission of Chicago (the "Commission") to facilitate the acquisition and construction of public buildings and facilities; and
WHEREAS, the Board operates a school known as Payton High School (the "School") located at 1034 North Wells Street, Chicago, Illinois 60610 (the "Property"); and
WHEREAS, the Board desires to rehabilitate the School and related improvements (the "Facility") on the Property to serve the School (the rehabilitation of the Facility shall be referred to herein as the "Project"); and

WHEREAS, the City is authorized under the provisions of the Tax Increment Allocation Redevelopment Act, 65 ILCS 5/11-74.4-1 et seq,., as amended from time to time (the "Act"), to finance projects that eradicate blight conditions through the use of tax increment allocation financing for redevelopment projects; and
WHEREAS, to induce certain redevelopment pursuant to the Act, the City Council adopted ordinances on July 30, 1997 (as published in the Journal of Proceedings of the City Council (the "Journal") for such date at pages 49208 to 49374): approving and adopting a tax increment financing redevelopment project and plan for the Near North Redevelopment Proj...