Terms Used In Iowa Code 260E.4

  • Board of directors: means the board of directors of a community college. See Iowa Code 260E.2
  • Community college: means a community college established under chapter 260C. See Iowa Code 260E.2
  • Employer: means the person providing new jobs in the merged area served by the community college and entering into an agreement. See Iowa Code 260E.2
  • Incremental property taxes: means the taxes as provided in sections 403. See Iowa Code 260E.2
  • program: means the project or projects established by a community college for the creation of jobs by providing education and training of workers for new jobs for new or expanding industry in the merged area served by the community college. See Iowa Code 260E.2
  • Project: means a training arrangement which is the subject of an agreement entered into between the community college and an employer to provide program services. See Iowa Code 260E.2
  • Property: means a tangible object, animate or inanimate, under a museum's care which has intrinsic historic, artistic, scientific, or cultural value. See Iowa Code 305B.2
  • School: means an agency of the state or political subdivision of the state, individual, partnership, company, firm, society, trust, association, corporation, or any combination which meets any of the following criteria:
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" may include the said district and territories. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • year: means twelve consecutive months. See Iowa Code 4.1
 If an agreement provides that all or part of program costs are to be paid for by incremental property taxes, the board of directors shall provide by resolution that taxes levied on the employer‘s taxable business property, where new jobs are created as a result of a project, each year by or for the benefit of the state, city, county, school district, or other taxing district after the effective date of the resolution shall be divided as provided in section 403.19, subsections 1 and 2, in the same manner as if the employer’s business property, where new jobs are created as a result of a project, was taxable property in an urban renewal project and the resolution was an ordinance within the meaning of those subsections. The taxes received by the board of directors shall be allocated to and when collected be paid into a special fund of the community college and may be irrevocably pledged by the community college to pay the principal of and interest on the certificates issued by the community college to finance or refinance, in whole or in part, the project. However, with respect to any urban renewal project as to which an ordinance is in effect under section 403.19, the collection of incremental property taxes authorized by this chapter are suspended in favor of collection of incremental taxes under section 403.19. As used in this section, “taxes” includes, but is not limited to, all levies on an ad valorem basis upon land or real property of the employer’s business, where new jobs are created as a result of a project.