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AGENDA REQUEST & STAFF REPORT
For Board Business Meeting of May 29, 2013
Please see directions for completing this document on the next page.
DATE: May 21, 2013
FROM: Erik Kropp Admin. Services 388-6584
TITLE OF AGENDA ITEM:
Consideration and approval of Resolution 2013-034, A Resolution to Sponsor an Application for
Amending the Boundary of the Greater Redmond Area Enterprise Zone
PUBLIC HEARING ON THIS DATE? No.
BACKGROUND AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS:
The City of Sisters is proposing to expand the boundary of the Greater Redmond Area Enterprise Zone.
The existing zone has a total area of 11.57 square miles. The City of Sisters is proposing to add 101
acres of land into the zone.
Enterprise zones are designed to encourage business investment through property tax relief, in specific
areas of the state. In exchange for locating or expanding into an enterprise zone, eligible (generally non
retail) businesses receive total exemption from the property taxes normally assessed on new plant and
equipment, for a specified amount of time, which varies between the different zone programs. The
Greater Redmond Area Enterprise Zone was established in 1988 and re-designated in 1998 and 2010.
The Cities of Sisters and Redmond are proposing to amend the boundary of the Greater Redmond Area
Enterprise Zone to include additional potential employment lands in unincorporated Deschutes County
and the City of Sisters. If approved by the Cities of Sisters and Redmond and Deschutes County, the
City of Sisters will submit the enterprise zone application to the state Economic and Community
Development Departments.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
Foregone tax revenue to the taxing districts for a specified period of time.
RECOMMENDATION & ACTION REQUESTED:
Staff recommends Approval of Resolution 2013-034, A Resolution to Sponsor an Application for
Amending the Boundary of the Greater Redmond Area Enterprise Zone.
ATTENDANCE: Erik Kropp.
DISTRIBUTION OF DOCUMENTS:
Erik Kropp
Kelly Morse, City of Redmond
Kathy Nelson, City of Sisters
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Please complete all sections above the Official Review line.
Date: 15/21/131 Department: !Admin.1
Contractor/Supplier/Consultant Name: InIal
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Type of Document: Resolution.
Goods and/or Services: The City of Sisters is proposing to expand the boundary of the
Greater Redmond Area Enterprise Zone. The existing zone has a total area of 11.57
square miles. The City of Sisters is proposing to add 101 acres of land into the zone.
Background & History: Enterprise zones are designed to encourage business
investment through property tax relief, in specific areas of the state. In exchange for
locating or expanding into an enterprise zone, eligible (generally non-retail) businesses
receive total exemption from the property taxes normally assessed on new plant and
equipment, for a specified amount of time, which varies between the different zone
programs. The Greater Redmond Area Enterprise Zone was established in 1988 and re
designated in 1998 and 2010. The Cities of Sisters and Redmond are proposing to
amend the boundary of the Greater Redmond Area Enterprise Zone to include
additional potential employment lands in unincorporated Deschutes County and the City
of Sisters. If approved by the Cities of Sisters and Redmond and Deschutes County, the
City of Sisters will sumbit the enterprise zone application to the state Economic and
Community Development Departments.
Agreement Starting Date: 15/29/1 ~ Ending Date: '---_
Annual Value or Total Payment: 1,--------,
D Insurance Certificate Receiied (cleck box)
Insurance Expiration Date:
Check all that apply:
D RFP, Solicitation or Bid Process
D Informal quotes «$150K)
D Exempt from RFP, Solicitation or Bid Process (specify see DCC §2.37)
Funding Source: (Included in current budget? DYes D No
If No, has budget amendment been submitted? DYes D No
5/2112013
Is this a Grant Agreement providing revenue to the County? DYes D No
Special conditions attached to this grant:
Deadlines for reporting to the grantor:
If a new FTE will be hired with grant funds, confirm that Personnel has been notified that
it is a grant-funded position so that this will be noted in the offer letter: DYes D No
Contact information for the person responsible for grant compliance:
Name:
Phone #:
'-----'
Departmental Contact and Title: Erik Kropp Phone #: x6584
Department Director Approval: ____W '_-"L=-=b~/\+-___
Signature \ Date '
Distribution of Document: Who gets the original document and/or copies after it has
been signed? Include complete information if the document is to be mailed.
Official Review:
County Signature Required (check one): X SOCC D Department Director (if <$25K)
Administrator (if >$25K but <$150K; if >$150K, SOCC Order No. ____-1)
Legal Review Date
Document Number Resolution Number 2013-034
5/2112013
REVIEl};tJ7filtc -UNSEL
For Recording Stamp Only
BEFORE THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON
A Resolution to Sponsor an Application for *
Amending the Boundary of the Greater * RESOLUTION NO. 2013-034
Redmond Area Enterprise Zone *
WHEREAS, the CITY OF REDMOND, DESCHUTES COUNTY AND THE CITY OF
SISTERS ("Sponsors") are co-sponsoring an application to amend the boundary of the Greater
Redmond Area Enterprise Zone ("Zone"; Exhibit A, attached); and
WHEREAS, the Sponsors are interested in expanding the total land area encompassed within
the Zone to encourage new business investment, job creation, higher incomes for local residents,
greater diversity of economic activity and increased property valuation; and
WHEREAS, the existing Zone has a total area of 11.57 square miles (7.02 square miles in the
City of Redmond, 4.12 square miles in Deschutes County and .43 square miles in the City of Sisters),
and it meets other statutory limitations on size and configuration; and
WHEREAS, the City of Sisters seeks to add an additional 89 acres of land within Sisters city
limits, into the Zone, which are identified on the attached Exhibit B as 'Areas A, B, C and D; and
WHEREAS, Deschutes County seeks to add 12 acres ofland adjacent to the Sisters City limits
into the Zone, which is identified on Exhibit B as Area E; and
WHEREAS, the proposed Zone contains significant land that is reserved for enterprise-zone
eligible uses, as indicated by land use zoning map(s) accompanying the application, consistent with
Comprehensive Planes) acknowledged by the Land Conservation and Development Commission, and
such sites are accessible, serviced or serviceable, and otherwise ready for use and further development;
and
WHEREAS, the designation of an enterprise zone does not grant or imply permission to
develop land within the Zone without complying with prevailing zoning, regulatory and permitting
processes and restrictions for applicable jurisdictions; nor does it indicate any intent to modifY those
processes or restrictions, except as otherwise in accordance with adopted Comprehensive Plans and
land use regulations; and
I WHEREAS, the Sponsors appreciate the impacts that new development within a designated
enterprise zone would have and the property tax exemptions that eligible business firms might receive I therein, as governed by Oregon Revised Statutes (ORS) Chapter 285C and other provisions of Oregon
Law; and
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WHEREAS, all of the other municipal corporations, school districts, special service districts
and so forth, other than the sponsoring governments, that receive operating revenue through the
levying of ad valorem taxes on real and personal property in any area of the proposed Zone were sent
notice and invited to provide written comment regarding this proposal which is included within the
application packet prepared by the Sponsors for consideration by Oregon Business Development
Department; and
WHEREAS, the Zone, which was originally established in 1988 and re-designated in 1998 and
2010, has served the City of Redmond and the surrounding region successfully, by incentivizing over
1700 new jobs and $124,000,000 in private investment, the current economic factors in the region,
such as high unemployment, plant closures and distressed markets, demonstrates the need to continue
this program in both the City of Redmond, Deschutes County, and the City of Sisters; and
WHEREAS, the Sponsors feel that it is invaluable to collaboratively participate in efforts to
promote economic development in Central Oregon; now therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF DESCHUTES
COUNTY, OREGON, as follows:
Section I. The Sponsors propose and apply for a boundary amendment to the Greater
Redmond Area Enterprise Zone, amending the boundary to include additional potential employment
lands in unincorporated Deschutes County and in the City of Sisters, which shall continue to be named:
"The Greater Redmond Area Enterprise Zone," and requests that the director of the Oregon Business
Development Department approve the amendment of this enterprise zone boundary.
Section 2. Eric Porter, Principal Planner for the City of Sisters is authorized to submit the
enterprise zone amendment application on behalf of the Sponsors and to make any substantive or
technical change to the application materials, as necessary, after adoption of this Resolution.
Section 3. The Sponsors will give priority to the use in the Zone, of any economic
development or job training funds received from the federal government, consistent with ORS
28SC.06S(3)(d).
Section 4. The Sponsors shall maintain the existing benefits established for the Deschutes
County, Redmond and Sisters businesses that are enterprise-zone eligible.
Section S. The Sponsors will jointly comply with the requirements and provisions of
ORS 28SC.l OS and otherwise fulfill their duties under ORS 28SC.OSO to 28SC.2S0.
Section 6. The Sponsors jointly maintain a list or map of local lands and buildings owned by
the state or by municipal corporations within the Zone that are not being used or designated for a
public purpose and that have appropriate land use zoning, and to efforts for making such lands and
buildings available for lease or purchase by authorized business firms pursuant to ORS 28SC.l1 O.
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Section 7. The Sponsors jointly request that the Director of the Oregon Business Development
Department continue to waive the 15 mile distance between separate areas within the Zone, per ORS
285C.120(2).
Section 8. The Sponsors will continue to provide the local incentives established within the
2009 redesignation ofthe Zone.
Section 9. The Sponsors jointly request that the Electronic Commerce Designation approved
by the Oregon Economic and Community Development Department in 2008 for the Zone continue
with the amended boundary of the Zone.
This Resolution shall be effective immediately upon its adoption by each of the Sponsors' governing
bodies.
DATEDthis __day of ________, 2013.
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
OF DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON
ALAN UNGER, Chair
TAMM~r
ATTEST:
Recording Secretary ANTHONY DEBONE, Commissioner
ADOPTED by the Redmond City Council and SIGNED by the Mayor this __ day of May,
2013.
George Endicott, Mayor
Attest:
Kelly Morse, City Recorder
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ADOPTED by the Sisters City Council and SIGNED by the Mayor this __ day of May,
2013.
Brad Boyd I Mayor
Attest:
Kathy Nelson, City Recorder
EXHIBIT A: MAP DEPICTING DRAWN-TO-SCALE AMENDED BOUNDARY OF THE
GREATER REDMOND AREA ENTERPRISE ZONE
EXHIBIT B: MAP DEPICTING THE FIVE NEW AREAS UNDER CONSIDERATION FOR
INCLUSION INTO THE GREATER REDMOND AREA ENTERPRISE ZONE
EXHIBIT C: LEGAL DESCRIPTIONS OF LAND AREAS IDENTIFIED FOR INCLUSION
INTO THE GREATER REDMOND AREA ENTERPRISE ZONE
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C HIGHWAY COMMERCIAL EAST 13.1 0.020
D HIGHWAY COMMERCIAL WEST 35.6 0.050
E AIRPORT 12.9 0.020
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City of Sisters Enterprise Zone
Area A
Beginning at the intersection of the centerline of Pine Street with the centerline of Main Avenue,
situated in the Southwest Quarter of Section 4, Township 15 South, Range 10 East, Willamette
Meridian, City of Sisters, Deschutes County, Oregon; thence, east along the centerline of Main
Avenue to the centerline of Cedar Street; thence south along the centerline of Cedar Street to the
centerline of Cascade A venue; thence southwesterly to the northeast comer of that certain tract
of land described in Document No. 2006-35981, Deschutes County Official Records; thence
south, along the east boundary of said tract to its projected intersection with the centerline of
U.S. Highway 20; thence northwesterly along the centerline of said Highway to the centerline of
Cascade Avenue; thence, continuing along the centerline of said Highway and the centerline of
Cascade Avenue to the centerline of Pine Street; thence north along the centerline of Pine Street
to the point of beginning.
AreaB
Beginning at the intersection of the centerline of Pine Street with the centerline of U.S. Highway
20 (Cascade Avenue), situated in the Northwest Quarter of Section 9, Township 15 South, Range
10 East, Willamette Meridian, City of Sisters, Deschutes County, Oregon; thence east along the
centerline of Highway 20 to its intersection with the centerline of Larch Street; thence, leaving
Cascade Avenue and continuing southeasterly along the centerline of said Highway 20 to its
intersection with the south boundary, projected northeasterly, of that certain parcel ofland
described in Document No. 2004-34541; thence, leaving said centerline and westerly along said
south boundary to its intersection, projected westerly, with the centerline of Locust Street; thence
north along the centerline of Locust Street to the centerline of W ashington Avenue; thence west
along the centerline of Washington Avenue to the centerline of Cedar Street; thence north along
the centerline of Cedar Street to the centerline ofthe 12-foot wide alley between Washington
Avenue and Hood Avenue; thence west along the centerline of said alley to the centerline of Pine
Street; thence north along the centerline of Pine Street to the point of beginning.
AreaC
A portion of Lot 7, Section 5 Subdivision, as described in Document No. 2008-42524, Deschutes
County Official Records, situated in the Southeast Quarter of Section 5, Township 15 South,
Range 10 East, Willamette Meridian, City of Sisters, Deschutes County, Oregon.
AreaD
Tracts of land situated in the South Half of Section 5, Township 15 South, Range 10 East, City
of Sisters, Deschutes County Oregon, more particularly described as:
Parcels 1 and 2 of Partition Plat 1993-19;
Together with the following subdivisions of record:
Relco Station Phases 1 and 2;
Green Ridge.
AreaE
All of that certain tract of land described in Document No. 2011-033945, situated in the
Northeast Quarter of Section 4, Township 15 South, Range 10 East, Willamette Meridian,
Deschutes County, Oregon.
REVIEWED
LEGAL COUNSEL
For Recording Stamp Only
BEFORE THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON
A Resolution to Sponsor an Application for * DESCHUTES COUNTY RESOLUTION
Amending the Boundary of the Greater * NO. 2013-034
Redmond Area Enterprise Zone * CITY OF REDMOND RESOLUTION
NO. 2013-08
CITY OF SISTERS RESOLUTION
NO. 2013-09
WHEREAS, the CITY OF REDMOND, DESCHUTES COUNTY AND THE CITY OF
SISTERS ("Sponsors") are co-sponsoring an application to amend the boundary of the Greater
Redmond Area Enterprise Zone ("Zone"; Exhibit A, attached); and
WHEREAS, the Sponsors are interested in expanding the total land area encompassed within
the Zone to encourage new business investment, job creation, higher incomes for local residents,
greater diversity of economic activity and increased property valuation; and
WHEREAS, the existing Zone has a total area of 11.57 square miles (7.02 square miles in the
City of Redmond, 4.12 square miles in Deschutes County and.43 square miles in the City of Sisters),
and it meets other statutory limitations on size and configuration; and
WHEREAS, the City of Sisters seeks to add an additional 89 acres of land within Sisters city
limits, into the Zone, which are identified on the attached Exhibit B as 'Areas A, B, C and D; and
WHEREAS, Deschutes County seeks to add 12 acres of land adjacent to the Sisters City limits
into the Zone, which is identified on Exhibit B as Area E; and
WHEREAS, the proposed Zone contains significant land that is reserved for enterprise-zone
eligible uses, as indicated by land use zoning map(s) accompanying the application, consistent with
Comprehensive Plan(s) acknowledged by the Land Conservation and Development Commission, and
such sites are accessible, serviced or serviceable, and otherwise ready for use and further development;
and
WHEREAS, the designation of an enterprise zone does not grant or imply permission to
develop land within the Zone without complying with prevailing zoning, regulatory and permitting
processes and restrictions for applicable jurisdictions; nor does it indicate any intent to modify those
processes or restrictions, except as otherwise in accordance with adopted Comprehensive Plans and
land use regulations; and
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WHEREAS, the Sponsors appreciate the impacts that new development within a designated
enterprise zone would have and the property tax exemptions that eligible business firms might receive
therein, as governed by Oregon Revised Statutes (ORS) Chapter 285C and other provisions of Oregon
Law; and
WHEREAS, all of the other municipal corporations, school districts, special service districts
and so forth, other than the sponsoring governments, that receive operating revenue through the
levying of ad valorem taxes on real and personal property in any area of the proposed Zone were sent
notice and invited to provide written comment regarding this proposal which is included within the
application packet prepared by the Sponsors for consideration by Oregon Business Development
Department; and
WHEREAS, the Zone, which was originally established in 1988 and re-designated in 1998 and
2010, has served the City of Redmond and the surrounding region successfully, by incentivizing over
1700 new jobs and $124,000,000 in private investment, the current economic factors in the region,
such as high unemployment, plant closures and distressed markets, demonstrates the need to continue
this program in both the City of Redmond, Deschutes County, and the City of Sisters; and
WHEREAS, the Sponsors feel that it is invaluable to collaboratively participate in efforts to
promote economic development in Central Oregon; now therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF DESCHUTES
COUNTY, OREGON, as follows:
Section 1. The Sponsors propose and apply for a boundary amendment to the Greater
Redmond Area Enterprise Zone, amending the boundary to include additional potential employment
lands in unincorporated Deschutes County and in the City of Sisters, which shall continue to be named:
"The Greater Redmond Area Enterprise Zone," and requests that the director of the Oregon Business
Development Department approve the amendment of this enterprise zone boundary.
Section 2. Eric Porter, Principal Planner for the City of Sisters is authorized to submit the
enterprise zone amendment application on behalf of the Sponsors and to make any substantive or
technical change to the application materials, as necessary, after adoption ofthis Resolution.
Section 3. The Sponsors will give priority to the use in the Zone, of any economic
development or job training funds received from the federal government, consistent with ORS
285C.065(3)( d).
Section 4. The Sponsors shall maintain the existing benefits established for the Deschutes
County, Redmond and Sisters businesses that are enterprise-zone eligible.
Section 5. The Sponsors will jointly comply with the requirements and provisions of
ORS 285C.1 05 and otherwise fulfill their duties under ORS 285C.050 to 285C.250.
Section 6. The Sponsors jointly maintain a list or map of local lands and buildings owned by
the state or by municipal corporations within the Zone that are not being used or designated for a
RESOLUTION 2013-034
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public purpose and that have appropriate land use zoning, and to efforts for making such lands and
buildings available for lease or purchase by authorized business firms pursuant to ORS 285C.ll O.
Section 7. The Sponsors jointly request that the Director of the Oregon Business Development
Department continue to waive the 15 mile distance between separate areas within the Zone, per ORS
285C.120(2).
Section 8. The Sponsors will continue to provide the local incentives established within the
2009 redesignation of the Zone.
Section 9. The Sponsors jointly request that the Electronic Commerce Designation approved
by the Oregon Economic and Community Development Department in 2008 for the Zone continue
with the amended boundary of the Zone.
This Resolution shall be effective immediately upon its adoption by each of the Sponsors' governing
bodies.
DATED this __dayof ________, 2013.
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
OFDESCHUTESCOUNTY,OREGON
ALAN UNGER, Chair
TAMMY BANEY, Vice Chair
ATTEST:
Recording Secretary ANTHONY DEB ONE, Commissioner
ADOPTED by the Redmond City Council and SIGNED by the Mayor this \ylt!day of May, 2013.
Attest:
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ADOPTED by the Sisters City Council and SIGNED by the Mayor this 25th day of April, 2013.
Brad Boyd, Mayor
EXHIBIT A: MAP DEPICTING DRA WN-TO-SCALE AMENDED BOUNDARY OF THE
GREATER REDMOND AREA ENTERPRISE ZONE
EXHIBIT B: MAP DEPICTING THE FIVE NEW AREAS UNDER CONSIDERATION FOR
INCLUSION INTO THE GREATER REDMOND AREA ENTERPRISE ZONE
EXHIBIT C: LEGAL DESCRIPTIONS OF LAND AREAS IDENTIFIED FOR INCLUSION INTO
THE GREATER REDMOND AREA ENTERPRISE ZONE
RESOLUTION 2013-034
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