Downtown Development Authority
Sparta Downtown Development Authority
The Sparta Downtown Development Authority is a downtown development authority of Village of Sparta 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
Minutes are posted monthly from 2023 to June 16, 2026, but the 2026 schedule's July 21 meeting has none, and 2022 has only February and March (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
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Not found: TIF package: annual budget, with fund balances
The page links the "2025 Annual Operating Budget"; none for 2026, the fiscal year in progress.
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
The page links the "2024 Audit"; the 2025 audit, due June 30, 2026, is not posted (the village's audit, which counts for the DDA under rubric decision 10c).
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 "Sparta Downtown Development Plan & TIF Plan".
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 "Sparta Downtown Development Plan & TIF Plan".
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
Downtown Development Authority Director Elizabeth Morse, 194 E. Division St., (616) 887-2454.
MCL 125.4910(1)(f) · Read October 3, 2026 on its website · Evidence for TIF package: staff contact information
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Found: TIF package: list of current contracts
"Contracts: Waterworks Irrigation, for Irrigation/Garden Bed Maintenance, April 1, 2023", with the contract linked.
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
The page's PA 57 list of accomplishments gives the fund balance "As of December 31, 2019"; the newest report is the "2024 Chamber DDA Events Year End Report".
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
About
- Type
- Downtown Development Authority
- Part of
- Village of Sparta
- County
- Kent County
- Website
- — none found
- Notes
- Village of Sparta; created 1992.
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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TIF authority package (W5a-W5i), Kent County
Open Government Project · read 2026-10-03