Bowne Township Alto Downtown Development Authority

Tax increment authorityKent County

The Bowne Township Alto Downtown Development Authority is a downtown development authority of Bowne Township in Kent County, Michigan.

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What this body files with the State and posts online, checked against the law and good practice.

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Required by law

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Not found: TIF package: board meeting minutes

The DDA's own site (altodda.org) posts minutes for 2025 and 2026 only; none for 2022 to 2024 (the window is the fiscal year in progress and the four before it (rubric decision 10a)).

MCL 125.4910(1)(a) · Read October 3, 2026 on its website · Evidence for TIF package: board meeting minutes
Not found: TIF package: annual budget, with fund balances

No budget on altodda.org or Bowne Township's site; a sweep of the site's pages and a web search of the site found none.

MCL 125.4910(1)(b) · Read October 3, 2026 on its website · Evidence for TIF package: annual budget, with fund balances
Not found: TIF package: annual audits

Treasury shows no audit of the DDA's own, so the township's would count (rubric decision 10c), but neither site posts an audit.

MCL 125.4910(1)(c) · Read October 3, 2026 on its website · Evidence for TIF package: annual audits
Not found: TIF package: development plan

No development plan on either site; a sweep of the site's pages and a web search of the site found none.

MCL 125.4910(1)(d) · Read October 3, 2026 on its website · Evidence for TIF package: development plan
Not found: TIF package: tax increment financing plan

No TIF plan on either site; a sweep of the site's pages and a web search of the site found none.

MCL 125.4910(1)(e) · Read October 3, 2026 on its website · Evidence for TIF package: tax increment financing plan
Found: TIF package: staff contact information

Alto DDA, PO Box 193, Alto, MI 49302, with an email address and a contact form.

MCL 125.4910(1)(f) · Read October 3, 2026 on its website · Evidence for TIF package: staff contact information
Not found: TIF package: list of current contracts

No list of current contracts; a sweep of the site's pages and a web search of the site found none.

MCL 125.4910(1)(g) · Read October 3, 2026 on its website · Evidence for TIF package: list of current contracts
Not found: TIF package: annual synopsis of activities

The Projects page lists projects and their status with no fiscal year; no synopsis was found.

MCL 125.4910(1)(h) · Read October 3, 2026 on its website · Evidence for TIF package: annual synopsis of activities
Not found: TIF package: notices of the two yearly informational meetings

No notice of an informational meeting; a sweep of the site's pages and a web search of the site found none.

MCL 125.4910(4) · Read October 3, 2026 on its website · Evidence for TIF package: notices of the two yearly informational meetings

Good practice

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Current budget posted
Budgets for the past three years posted
Latest audit posted
Budget posted as a spreadsheet or data file
Regular meeting schedule for the year posted
Agendas posted for the past 12 months
Minutes posted for the past 12 months
Members' names and a way to contact them posted
Check register (payments) posted
Employee pay or salary schedule posted
Current contracts posted

About

Type: Downtown Development Authority
Part of: Bowne Township
County: Kent County
Website: altodda.org
Notes: Members: appointed. Bowne Township's DDA for the unincorporated community of Alto (not a joint body). Township Supervisor ex officio. Not in the registry. altodda.org is the DDA's own site (members, projects, events), found in the TIF reading of 2026-10-03; the address on record was Bowne Township's boards page.

Sources

Where this page's facts come from.

Boards and commissions of Kent County's cities, villages and townships
Each government's own website · read 2026-09-25
TIF authority package (W5a-W5i), Kent County
Open Government Project · read 2026-10-03