City staff and the EDA are proposing to add employer workers compensation credits as an eligible use of Border Cities Enterprise Zone (BCEZ) funds, modeled on Moorhead’s approach. Under the draft policy, businesses in East Grand Forks could apply annually for a rebate of up to 25% of their workers comp expense (capped at $30,000 per business and $1,500 per employee), with the city conducting a single yearly public hearing and approval for all applicants and reserving part of the BCEZ pool for larger projects. The Council is being asked to adopt this policy change, and the program will require ongoing administration, application intake, scoring, reporting to DEED/Department of Revenue, and outreach to eligible businesses. This creates a potential need for grant and incentive program management tools, application portals, and consulting support in program design, compliance, reporting, and marketing, especially as the city scales up use of BCEZ funds for both tax credits and workers compensation rebates.
Program will be governed by state Subsidy Act requirements and BCEZ rules; not all applications will...
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