Downtown Development Authority
Walker Downtown Development Authority
The Walker Downtown Development Authority is a downtown development authority of City of Walker in Kent County, Michigan.
Transparency checks
What this body files with the State and posts online, checked against the law and good practice.
Grade pending
A grade appears once every check below has been read and the site has set its grading scale. Every check counts the same.
Required by law
4 found · 5 not found · 2 not read yet
-
Not found: TIF package: board meeting minutes
CivicWeb's 2026 minutes folder has no minutes for the May 19, 2026 meeting, which has an agenda and packet and is not marked canceled. Read page by page in the built-in browser: the site's robots.txt blocks automated readers.
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
"Click here to view the 2024-2025 budget" is the only budget; none for FY2026 or FY2027, the fiscal year in progress, or FY2023.
MCL 125.4910(1)(b) · Read October 3, 2026 on its website · Evidence for TIF package: annual budget, with fund balances
-
Found: TIF package: annual audits
The page says the DDA is "audited annually as part of the City of Walker financial audit"; the city's City Budgets & Audits page posts its audits through the year ended June 30, 2025. The DDA page's own audit link opens a FY2023 budget.
MCL 125.4910(1)(c) · Read October 3, 2026 on its website · Evidence for TIF package: annual audits
-
Found: TIF package: development plan
The page links "2004 DDA Development Plan" (opened), the DDA's "Development Plan and Tax Increment Financing Plan".
MCL 125.4910(1)(d) · Read October 3, 2026 on its website · Evidence for TIF package: development plan
-
Found: TIF package: tax increment financing plan
The page links "2004 DDA Development Plan" (opened), the DDA's "Development Plan and Tax Increment Financing Plan".
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
The page links "Contact the DDA" (ndidonato@walker.city) and names the city staff who serve it.
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
No synopsis or annual report; a sweep of the site's pages and a web search of the site found none.
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
2 checks not read yet
-
Audit filed with the State for the latest fiscal year
Uniform Budgeting and Accounting Act, MCL 141.421 et seq.; MCL 141.921
-
Audit filed on time
Due six months after fiscal year end; MCL 141.921
About
- Type
- Downtown Development Authority
- Part of
- City of Walker
- County
- Kent County
- Website
- — none found
Codes
- Michigan Treasury unit code
- 417509
Sources
Where this page's facts come from.
-
Kent County public bodies: research notes
Open Government Project · 2026-09-24
-
Treasury Document Search, Kent County local units
Michigan Department of Treasury, Local Audit and Finance Division · queried 2026-09-24
-
TIF authority package (W5a-W5i), Kent County
Open Government Project · read 2026-10-03