Office of the City Clerk - Record #: O2021-768

• Record #: O2021-768
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• Intro date: 2/24/2021
• Current Controlling Legislative Body: Committee on Finance
• Final action: 3/24/2021
• Title: Intergovernmental agreement with Chicago Park District to provide tax increment financing (TIF) funds for rehabilitation of playground, soft surface replacement, access paving and landscape restoration to Wentworth Gardens Park at 3770 S Wentworth Ave
• Sponsors: Lightfoot, Lori E.
• Topic: AGREEMENTS - Intergovernmental

Date	Journal Page Number	Action By	Action	Result
3/24/2021	28584	City Council	Passed	Pass
3/22/2021		Committee on Finance	Recommended to Pass
2/24/2021	27517	City Council	Referred

OFFICE OF THE MAYOR
CITY OF CHICAGO
LORI E. LIGHTFOOT MAYOR

February 24, 2021










TO THE HONORABLE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO


Ladies and Gentlemen:

At the request of the Commissioner of Planning and Development, I transmit herewith ordinances authorizing the execution of intergovernmental agreements with the Chicago Park District regarding expenditure of TIF funds for park improvements and playground repairs.

Your favorable consideration of these ordinances will be appreciated.

ORDINANCE


WHEREAS, the City of Chicago (the "City"), is a 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 Chicago Park District (the "Park District"), is an Illinois municipal corpo­ration and a unit of local government under Article VII, Section 1 of the 1970 Constitution of the State of Illinois, and as such is authorized to exercise control over and supervise the operation of all parks within the corporate limits of the City; and
WHEREAS, the City is authorized under the provisions of the Tax Increment Allocation Redevelopment Act, 65 ILCS 5/11-74.4-1 ef seq., as amended from time to time (the "Act"), to finance projects that eradicate blight conditions and conservation factors that could lead to blight through the use of tax increment allocation financing for redevelopment projects; and

WHEREAS, under 65 ILCS 5/11-74.4-3(q)(7), incremental ad valorem taxes, which pur­suant to the Act, have been collected and are allocated to pay redevelopment project costs and obligations incurred in the payment thereof ("Increment") may be used to pay all or a portion of a taxing district's capital costs resulting from a redevelopment project necessarily incurred or to be incurred in furtherance of the objectives of a redevelopment plan and project, to the extent the municipality by written a...