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SOUTH BEND, Ind. — The St. Joseph County Council held its first reading Tues. evening for bill 60-25, called ‘The Community First Investment Ordinance of St. Joseph County’ by the five of the nine council members petitioning it.

County councilman for District H, Bryan Tanner, said over the last year, it’s been brought to the council’s attention by the Saint Joseph County Economic Development team and the South Bend Regional Chamber that updates were needed for the county’s tax abatement ordinance.

“The ordinance as it was previously written and exists today is a roughly 24 page document, and through refining and consolidating and reducing redundancy, it’s effectively a 9-page

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