ROCKFORD — Aldermen on Monday delayed a decision over whether to create a new tax increment finance district to spur industrial development on the south end of the city near the county line.
The measure was pushed back under the City Council’s two-aldermen rule, which allows for certain votes to be postponed on their first appearance with a motion by one alderman and a second by another. The motion to delay was made by Alderwoman Gina Meeks and seconded by Alderman Tamir Bell.
Meeks said she wanted time to have staff review potential protections that other non-home rule communities have considered for data centers and industrial development as a whole…