Redevelopment commission approves 2025 annual report and adopts Resolution 2026-07 on tax-increment determinations

The Hammond Redevelopment Commission voted to approve its annual report for fiscal year 2025 and adopted Resolution 2026-07, which determines tax-increment allocation areas and captured assessed value for the 2027 budget year.

Daniel Dalton, presenting the annual report, walked commissioners through the report’s purpose, parcel lists and debt-service schedules. He reported roughly $8.1 million in tax‑increment distributions received in the period and summarized commission fund balances at about $15 million across allocation area funds. The staff presentation also reported the commission’s 2026 budget at about $1.7 million.

Commissioners moved to approve the annual report and then approved Resolution 2026-07 (both votes recorded 4-0 with one absence). Staff noted statutory requirements for including lists of approved resolutions and described the overlapping taxing-unit report and exhibits showing captured assessed value and the hypothetical tax-rate impact if captured value were returned to overlapping units.

The commission’s formal approval completes the reporting requirement described in state statute for redevelopment commissions; any questions about specific parcels, bond balances or overlapping taxing-unit impacts will be handled by staff as requested by commissioners.