The City of Haysville has money to help. It comes in the form of financial incentives to encourage business owners and home buyers to make a move to the growing and welcoming suburb.
Through the leadership of Mayor Ken Hampton, the City of Haysville has made a commitment to use community resources and incentive programs as a catalyst for employment-generating investments by the private sector and to spur sales of new custom built homes and spec homes that haven’t been occupied.
“The goal is to give financial help to prospective home buyers and to minimize the cost of expanding or locating a business in Haysville in order to enhance the local economy, revitalize target areas, and promote strong and balanced growth throughout the City,” said Mayor Hampton.
The City of Haysville recently accomplished an Economic Development Strategic Plan establishing direction for Haysvilles economic development activities over the next three years. After several months of planning among representatives from local businesses, Chamber of Commerce, governing body and the Economic Development Strategic Planning Team, the city launched 10 incentive programs.
The programs intend to foster a stronger local economy and enhance the quality of life in Haysville for years to come. Target areas include Broadway (US 81 Corridor), Main Street Corridor, Meridian Street Corridor, Grand Avenue Arterial, as well as public and private Industrial Parks.
The city is trying to make the incentives easy to obtain. “There are other qualifiers to receiving grants, rebates or waivers, which are typical to incentive programs, but nothing that keeps these programs from being user friendly,” stated Hampton.
Programs for which funding is available include: New Home Voucher, Rent Assistance Grant, Building Facade Improvement Grant, Underutilized Building Grant, Black Top (parking lot) Grant, Education/Training Grant, Fee Abatement/Waiver, and City Property Tax Holiday.
Businesses with larger projects in mind have access to other programs which encompass infrastructure assistance, and industrial revenue bonds with associated tax abatement. Qualifiers for these programs are linked to job creation, wages paid and others.