09/16/08 CTRA Meeting Announcement

The Domain: A Deal You Can Refuse

A Presentation
to
The Central Texas Republican Assembly
(CTRA)
by
Brian Rodgers
Founder, Stop Domain Subsidies
http://www.stopdomainsubsidies.com/
on
Tuesday, Sept 16th @ 7 p.m.
at
TCRP Headquarters
10711 Burnet Road, Suite 315
Austin, TX 78758
(located in the Compass Bank Building,
just north of intersection of Braker and Burnet)

Refreshments provided
Event Charge: $5.00, at the door

RSVP by Friday, Sept 12th
to
Tim Bradberry
dadofping@peoplepc.com

Board of Directors meeting @ 6:00 p.m.
(open to CTRA members only)


SPEAKER BIO

Brian Rodgers is a real estate investor who has made it his mission to stop the city from rebating any of the sales and property tax money promised to Simon Property Group Inc., owner of the Domain and the nation's largest mall developer. He says the campaign is about fairness: for small businesses, for taxpayers.

The charter amendment he sponsored aims to prevent the city from giving tax incentives to projects that have retail components. It would also prohibit the city, in effect, from paying the owner of the Domain shopping center the sales and property tax rebates negotiated in a 2003 agreement.

The Stop Domain Subsidies group had to collect more than 18,000 signatures from the city’s registered voters — 5 percent of the qualified voters — to put the amendment on the ballot. The amendment will be put before voters in November.

Brian Rodgers has been in business in Austin for 25 years, and has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from UT-Austin.