Tuesday, January 7, 2020

International Applications Wisconsin Dells Conventions HUB Market Place

The Wisconsin Dells Conventions HUB Market Place has entered the Wisconsin Governors Business Plan Contest.  The Wisconsin Dells Conventions HUB Market Place is being developed to integrate local business locations with non-local convention participants.  This is an advanced technological system that applies to any community served by a convention center looking to grow their local economy.

Tech is no longer an individual sector as shown through the Wisconsin Dells Conventions HUB Market Place system which presents as a new prototype being developed in a tourism dependent economic area.  Wisconsin Dells Conventions HUB Market Place is a new modal of service delivery designed to increase the number of visitors per group committing to attend the scheduled gathering with the area specific convention center.

The Wisconsin Dells Conventions HUB Market Place is a popular system with municipalities struggling to meet their budgets for essential community services.  This system works to raise local collections of over night lodging and sales tax that swells the availability of community resources.

Wisconsin Dells Conventions HUB Market Place would like to take this opportunity to wish all those participating in the Wisconsin Governors Business Plan Contest the best of wishes.

Saturday, January 4, 2020

Submission Wisconsin Governors Business Plan Contest

Wisconsin Dells Conventions HUB Market Place has been submitted to the Wisconsin Governors Business Plan Contest.  This modal is an autonomous , technologically advanced, online mutli-sided economic platform.  This integrates local business locations with non-local convention participants.

This modal establishes an area specific online site designed to benefit the local economy.  This creates a networking tool that enables local business modals to embed their postings with proven fiscal providers and sell in real time to incoming convention participants. Convention participants benefit from the broader view of available products and services for their scheduled stay.   This moves convention center money across the community at a faster rate.

The convention center benefits from the market place online delivery that creates new audiences- while adding a service that increases the number of individuals committing to attend for each scheduled gathering.  This unifies community efforts that contribute to the ongoing success of the convention center.   The postings include original content - more granular area specific information and current photographs that improve communication efforts.

The delivery of the service this business modal provides is transformable to any community that has a convention center and would like to improve the economic performance within the local area.  This business modal is under development in the Wisconsin Dells area as of January 1, 2020.

Wisconsin Dells Conventions HUB Market Place would like to take this opportunity to wish all those participating in the popular Wisconsin Governors Business Plan Contest the best of luck!

Thursday, January 2, 2020

Local Public Funds Pay For New J1VISA Housing In Wisconsin Dells Area

In the Wisconsin Dells Area the Lake Delton Finance Committee approves incentive packages that give individual private property owners about 750 thousand dollars to construct new housing for the J1VISA population.  This package includes a variance for the parking space requirement.

These buildings constructed with hefty investments of publicly collected money being diverted from the needs of the residents have very limited parking.  This is because the buildings are designed only for the work experience travelers who come from outside of the Country through the J1VISA Immigration Programming to temporarily live in the Wisconsin Dells area and staff the tourism business modals.  The J1VISA Workers typically have 90 days to work in the area and about 30 days for travel.  The acting Village of Lake Delton Administration believes this population will not have motor vehicles which is why the variance for the parking space requirement.

On the Federal and State level we are seeing changes by the acting administrations to laws and regulations designed to decrease and greatly limit the ability of  work experience travelers to come in to the Wisconsin Dells area from outside of the Country.  Families that live outside of the Country are much less likely to allow their loved one to travel in to the Wisconsin Dells area through the J1VISA Immigration Programming.

The Wisconsin Dells area residents are concerned with the lower utilization numbers for these J1VISA Housing buildings.  Such a huge investment of 750 thousand dollars of public money diverted from the needs of the residents for each building - often vacant.  With the parking variance these buildings require much more than internal reconfiguration to re-purpose the housing for apartment style living space.

The two glaring realities the Wisconsin Dells area is facing - that fewer and fewer workers from outside of the Country are coming to the area leaving this newly constructed housing more and more vacant.  And this newly constructed housing lacks the integrity to be readily transformed to apartment style space.

Sunday, December 29, 2019

Lake Delton Intermingles TID and PRT Money

Readers can go online to the Wisconsin Department of Revenue -Tax Incentive Financing Information page to review the Village of Lake Delton annual submission for the year 2017.  Recall filing of the annual report for the year 2017 was due on July 2, 2018.

TID 4 created 7/23/2007

Under the transfer to other funds category - 433,321 transfer to PRT fund.

This records the Village of Lake Delton transferring money from the Tax Incremental District 4 fund over and in to the premier resort tax fund.  This is intermingling - the moving of money between the separate funds for utilization in a manner that is more regulatory acceptable.

The 2017 annual TID report filing documents the Village of Lake Delton's history of intermingling tax incremental district  money with premier resort tax money.

Saturday, December 28, 2019

Wisconsin Dells Dynamic One Year Wonder

One Year Wonder is slang that is used across the Wisconsin Dells area to describe how rapidly visitation numbers drop off for new buildings and amusements.  Popularity a sense of how much the consumer population values a new building or amusement in the Wisconsin Dells is disappearing much sooner than it did 20 years ago.

As a response to this predictable dropping in visitation calculations the local municipality has established a loop that provides publicly collected money through the authority of amended regulations back to the private business operator.  Large Wisconsin Dells area resorts depend upon this publicly collected money being repeatedly distributed into their private business accounts to maintain operation.

The local municipalities use the tax incremental districts to borrow funds through promissory notes that are secured by a guarantee that the acting administration will raise taxes on the residents when the invested project is discovered to be performing poorly.  The new tourism industry projects across the Wisconsin Dells area do not create the longevity required to generate an investment grade property capable of contributing to the long term economic growth.

The most recent loop providing publicly collected money through the authority of amended regulations back to the private business operator is labeled the High End Attraction Incentive Program.  This delivers publicly collected money over to the families operating the large resorts to update and improve their amusements and attractions.

The large resorts need for locally collected public money to update and improve their amusements and attractions indicates the business system has not generated the revenue required to produce the profits demonstrating the success expected of a self sufficient investment grade property.

Friday, December 27, 2019

Wisconsin Dells 2020 BID Adds Expense To Family Vacation

The City of Wisconsin Dells has become mindful of the way taxation has discouraged economic exchange.  The City of Wisconsin Dells (BID) Down Town Business Improvement District Committee is funded by applying a special tax to area property.  To collect the money needed to pay this extra tax the store front operators add to the price of their goods, services, food, and beverage.  This is elevating the price vacationing families must pay.

When you consider this elevated cost in combination with the extra premier resort tax the store front operator must charge - this acts as a deterrent to once simple financial transactions.  This creates costs that are out of reach for many visiting families.

This all while the (BID) Wisconsin Dells Down Town Business Improvement District Committee requires business operators to alter the appearance of their store fronts.  The expense a business operator pays to alter their store front is being added directly on to the price of goods, services, food, and beverages being marketed in the Down Town Wisconsin Dells Commercial District.

In 2020 visiting families will have to spend more money to visit  Down Town Wisconsin Dells due to the (BID) Business Improvement District Committee.  Some vacationers choose not to purchase. Area business modals are seeing how taxation has discouraged economic exchange in Down Town Wisconsin Dells.

Thursday, December 26, 2019

Monitoring Wisconsin Dells TIF District Information

As the new year fast approaches the community members are reviewing the impact the 3 Wisconsin Dells (TIF) Tax Incremental Financing Districts have upon the areas projected economic performance in 2020.

The City of Wisconsin Dells is required to prepare and make available to the public annual reports describing the (TIF) Tax Incremental Financing Project Status, Expenditures, and Revenues.  Online go to State of Wisconsin Department of Revenue Website.  Key in to Tax Incremental Financing (TIF) information site, Press annual reports, year 2018, search Wisconsin Dells and 3 will show on the computer screen.

The City of Wisconsin Dells must file their annual report on TIF's every year by July 1 - so 2019's filing must be submitted by July 1, 2020.  Below lists last filing 2018 for each tax incremental district describing expense, earned revenue, and surplus money generated

TIF 2 Created 11/20/2000
Future costs- 6,816,144
Future revenue- 4,050,000
Surplus 0

TIF 3 Created 7/31/2006
Future costs- 49,761,011
Future revenue- 45,900,000
Surplus 0

TIF 4 Created 7/31/2006
Future costs 306,382
Future revenue 175,000
Surplus 0

Viewing the 3 annual TIF District reports for the City of Wisconsin Dells gives insight in to the benefit the ongoing use of tax incremental districts has delivered for the communities economic well being.