Council Bluffs missed out on $4.3 million in revenue from Google in 2024 because of an old utilities ordinance that Mayor Jill Shudak says wasn’t even legal. At the mayor’s town hall Thursday, neighbors also expressed concerns with the city’s management of a 2009 tax abatement for the tech giant.
UTILITIES FRANCHISE FEE
Everyone who buys electricity pays a franchise fee. That fee, the mayor explained, goes to the city for the use of its land for things such as power lines. Shudak says the fee is supposed to be the same for everyone, but that wasn’t the case…