{"id":209,"date":"2006-11-20T07:32:21","date_gmt":"2006-11-20T11:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=209"},"modified":"2006-11-20T07:32:21","modified_gmt":"2006-11-20T11:32:21","slug":"of-interest-the-idb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=209","title":{"rendered":"Of interest: the IDB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the blowup when the Oak Ridge Industrial Development Board <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"tax incentives\" href=\"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=156\">decided<\/a> (and then un-decided) to grant a million-dollar tax abatement to a local health club after it was already constructed and open, someone must have realized that it would be a good idea for the IDB to have a website and make a few things public.<\/p>\n<p>Little details, like the membership of the IDB (appointed by Council) and the matrices showing who&#8217;s eligible for what, are now <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"IDB\" href=\"http:\/\/www.coridb.org\/\">online<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 I would have put the matrix documents in PDF form to make them easier to print, but at least it&#8217;s there and available to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Tax incentives are a necessary evil, but one that must be used judiciously to bring in investments of a specific nature that meet specific needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the blowup when the Oak Ridge Industrial Development Board decided (and then un-decided) to grant a million-dollar tax abatement to a local health club after it was already constructed and open, someone must have realized that it would be &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=209\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}