PO Box 233
Nampa, Id 83653
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North Nampa Residents Association PO Box 233 Nampa, Id 83653 |
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 Meeting Tuesday -- The North Nampa Residents Association will hold a special meeting at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the meeting room at the Nampa Housing Authority, 1703 3rd St. N. NAMPA -- The North Nampa Residents Association encourages community members who have questions for the North Nampa Urban Renewal Agency to participate in a meeting Tuesday. The association is upset by the Urban Renewal Agency's use of taxpayer dollars. Residents say the agency has not honored its promise to revitalize north Nampa neighborhoods. Tuesday's meeting was scheduled in addition to the association's regular monthly meeting to focus on a strategy for presenting their concerns to the Urban Renewal Agency, resident Shirley Dean said. Dean has been invited to the agency's meeting Tuesday afternoon, before the residents' meeting. She will introduce the North Nampa Residents Association and solicit the agency's participation in a public meeting to educate residents about the agency's plans. Steve Tester, the agency's chairman, has said the agency has nothing to hide. Residents are particularly upset with the agency's decision to spend $23 million to construct the Idaho Center. Meanwhile, several streets and homes remain tattered in north side neighborhoods, Dean said. |
The Idaho Center falls under the agency's Community Development Plan to add
needed site improvements and public facilities to stimulate new commercial
expansion, employment and economic growth; or to build or reconstruct
"entertainment facilities, arenas, library facilities and other public
improvements."
"They've already spent all this money on the Idaho Center. We can't get it
back," Dean said at the association's Nov. 9 meeting. "They should have spent
that money on the neighborhood." Most of the tax revenue in the Urban Renewal District's first few years went to the Idaho Center, but the proposed budget for this fiscal year is almost evenly split between arena expenditures and other projects. The agency will contribute $2.5 million this fiscal year to the construction of the 11th Avenue North underpass. Another $1.5 million is slated for road and traffic, water and sewer, and parks and recreation improvements, Nampa Community Development Specialist Sabrina Bowman said. Residents in north Nampa want the agency to explain the budget and spending plan and provide a forum for communication between the groups, Dean said. Dean wants the agency to form a subcommittee of residents to help guide planning for the next five years. |
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