Dyer's Redevelopment Authority is comprised of three members, each appointed to three year terms.
Current Redevelopment Authority Membership
- Norb Layne, Member, President
- Patrick Fagen, Jr., Member
- Vivian Carballo-Brown, Member
Purposes of Authority
The reasons for organizing a Redevelopment Authority are defined in Indiana Code 36-7-14.5-11. They include:
- Financing, constructing, and leasing local public improvements to the commission.
- Financing and constructing additional improvements to local public improvements owned by the authority and leasing them to the commission.
- Acquiring all or a portion of one (1) or more local public improvements from the commission by purchase or lease and leasing these local public improvements back to the commission, with any additional improvements that may be made to them.
- Acquiring all or a portion of one (1) or more local public improvements from the commission by purchase or lease to fund or refund indebtedness incurred on account of those local public improvements to enable the commission to make a savings in debt services obligations or lease rental obligations or to obtain relief from covenants that the commission considers to be unduly burdensome.
Duties and Powers
The duties and powers of the Redevelopment Authority are defined in Indiana Code 36-7-14.5-12. They include:
- Finance, improve, construct, reconstruct, renovate, purchase, lease, acquire, or equip local public improvements.
- Lease those local public improvements to the commission.
- Sue, be sued, plead, or be impleaded, but all actions against the authority must be brought in the circuit or superior court of the county in which the authority is located.
- Condemn, appropriate, lease, rent, purchase, or hold any real or personal property needed or considered useful in connection with local public improvements.
- Acquire real or personal property by gift, devise, or bequest and hold, use, or dispose of that property for the purposes authorized by this chapter.
- Enter upon any lots or lands for the purpose of surveying or examining them to determine the location of a local public improvement.
- Design, order, contract for, or construct, reconstruct, or renovate any local public improvements or improvements thereto.
- Employ managers, superintendents, architects, engineers, attorneys, auditors, clerks, construction managers, or other employees necessary for construction of local public improvements or improvements to them.
- Make and enter into all contracts or agreements necessary or incidental to the performance of its duties or the execution of its powers under this chapter.
- Take any other action necessary to implement the authority's purposes as set forth in section 11(a) of this chapter.