Where's the Beef Plant? 2

Update: as of 9:42, Keloland News declared that the TIF/Beef Plant proposal had passed:

04/24/2007

Aberdeen Beef Plant TIF Passes

 

Voters in Brown County approved a tax district developers of beef plant say they needed to complete their project.

66.5% of voters said yes to the special tax district and 33.4% said no.

43.4% of Brown County voters turned out for the vote Tuesday.

As of 9:08 pm (Aberdeen American News):

With 14 of Brown County's 22 precincts reporting, the beef plant is headed for approval. Yes votes total 4,238 (64.78 percent) and no votes total 2,304 (35.22 percent.) Precinct by precinct totals won't be available until the final vote is in.

Brown County voters are deciding whether they should uphold the county's decision to grant a tax increment financing district for Northern Beef Packers, which wants to build a beef-packing plant south of Aberdeen.