BRADENTON — The future of Bradenton’s community redevelopment agencies may depend on who controls the money.
A prolonged debate between Bradenton officials broke out Wednesday morning over the future of the four city CRAs, including the 14th Street West CRA, Central Community Redevelopment Agency in East Bradenton, Bradenton CRA and the Bradenton Downtown Development Authority, which is considered a CRA although it has different rules.
Taxes taken from a CRA district are invested back into the CRA for redevelopment purposes.
A divided council debated the idea with a slight majority leaning toward disbanding all CRAs in favor of one consolidated CRA board.