Downtown Development Authority
Grand Rapids Downtown Development Authority
The Grand Rapids Downtown Development Authority is a downtown development authority of City of Grand Rapids in Kent County, Michigan.
Transparency checks
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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Found: TIF package: board meeting minutes
Past Meetings posts the agenda packet for every board meeting held, back to 2018. The packets carry the previous meeting's unapproved minutes (rubric decision 10b; the December 2025, April 2026 and May 2026 packets were opened), though the May 2026 packet repeats the February 11 minutes rather than April 15's.
MCL 125.4910(1)(a) · Read October 3, 2026 on its website · Evidence for TIF package: board meeting minutes
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Not found: TIF package: annual budget, with fund balances
The only budget posted is the "DDA FY 2026 Budget Memorandum, Document and Presentation" (FY2026 ended June 30, 2026); none for FY2027, the fiscal year in progress, or for FY2023 to FY2025. The site's sitemap and a sweep of its pages found no other.
MCL 125.4910(1)(b) · Read October 3, 2026 on its website · Evidence for TIF package: annual budget, with fund balances
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Not found: TIF package: annual audits
Audits for fiscal 2016 to 2024 are posted; the FY2025 audit, due December 31, 2025, is not. The board's February 11, 2026 minutes record its presentation by the auditor.
MCL 125.4910(1)(c) · Read October 3, 2026 on its website · Evidence for TIF package: annual audits
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Found: TIF package: development plan
The page links "DDA Development and TIF Plan - 2024", approved by the City Commission in April 2024.
MCL 125.4910(1)(d) · Read October 3, 2026 on its website · Evidence for TIF package: development plan
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Found: TIF package: tax increment financing plan
The page links "DDA Development and TIF Plan - 2024", approved by the City Commission in April 2024.
MCL 125.4910(1)(e) · Read October 3, 2026 on its website · Evidence for TIF package: tax increment financing plan
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Found: TIF package: staff contact information
The page links the DGRI Staff page and gives (616) 719-4610 and info@downtowngr.org; the city's board page names Tim Kelly.
MCL 125.4910(1)(f) · Read October 3, 2026 on its website · Evidence for TIF package: staff contact information
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Not found: TIF package: list of current contracts
No list of current contracts on the DDA's page or elsewhere on downtowngr.org (its sitemap, a sweep of 60 pages and a web search).
MCL 125.4910(1)(g) · Read October 3, 2026 on its website · Evidence for TIF package: list of current contracts
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Not found: TIF package: annual synopsis of activities
"DDA Annual Report Fiscal Year 2025" is Treasury's section 911 form (opened), which lists no accomplishments or projects (rubric decision 10d). No synopsis was found elsewhere on the site.
MCL 125.4910(1)(h) · Read October 3, 2026 on its website · Evidence for TIF package: annual synopsis of activities
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Found: TIF package: notices of the two yearly informational meetings
Past Meetings lists a "Downtown Development Authority/Monroe North TIFA Informational Meeting" on December 10, 2025.
MCL 125.4910(4) · Read October 3, 2026 on its website · Evidence for TIF package: notices of the two yearly informational meetings
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Audit filed with the State for the latest fiscal year
Uniform Budgeting and Accounting Act, MCL 141.421 et seq.; MCL 141.921
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Audit filed on time
Due six months after fiscal year end; MCL 141.921
Good practice
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Current budget posted
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Budgets for the past three years posted
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Latest audit posted
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Budget posted as a spreadsheet or data file
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Regular meeting schedule for the year posted
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Agendas posted for the past 12 months
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Minutes posted for the past 12 months
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Members' names and a way to contact them posted
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Check register (payments) posted
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Employee pay or salary schedule posted
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Current contracts posted
About
- Type
- Downtown Development Authority
- Part of
- City of Grand Rapids
- County
- Kent County
- Website
- downtowngr.org
- Notes
- Managed by Downtown Grand Rapids Inc.
Codes
- Michigan Treasury unit code
- 417512
Sources
Where this page's facts come from.
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Kent County public bodies: research notes
Open Government Project · 2026-09-24
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Treasury Document Search, Kent County local units
Michigan Department of Treasury, Local Audit and Finance Division · queried 2026-09-24
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TIF authority package (W5a-W5i), Kent County
Open Government Project · read 2026-10-03