Corridor Improvement Authority
Gaines Charter Township Division Avenue Corridor Improvement Authority
The Gaines Charter Township Division Avenue Corridor Improvement Authority is a corridor improvement authority of Gaines Charter Township 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
3 found · 6 not found
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Not found: TIF package: board meeting minutes
The township's Granicus portal lists only Planning Commission and Township Board meetings; no CIA minutes were found on it or in the Document Center. 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
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Not found: TIF package: annual budget, with fund balances
No budget is posted; 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
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Not found: TIF package: annual audits
Treasury shows no audit of the CIA's own, so the township's would count (rubric decision 10c), but the township posts no audit.
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 planning page links the "Division Avenue Corridor Improvement Authority Plan" (opened), its "Development Plan and Tax Increment Financing Plan" adopted June 9, 2008.
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 planning page links the "Division Avenue Corridor Improvement Authority Plan" (opened), its "Development Plan and Tax Increment Financing Plan" adopted June 9, 2008.
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 planning department provides "staff support to ... (DACIA)"; Community Development Director Dan Wells, with a contact link.
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; 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
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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
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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
0 found · 0 not found · 11 not read yet
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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
- Corridor Improvement Authority
- Part of
- Gaines Charter Township
- County
- Kent County
- Notes
- Members: appointed. "DACIA". Planning staff support it, and its plan is posted. Also on the application form. Not in the registry.
Sources
Where this page's facts come from.
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Boards and commissions of Kent County's cities, villages and townships
Each government's own website · read 2026-09-25
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TIF authority package (W5a-W5i), Kent County
Open Government Project · read 2026-10-03