Central Area General Improvement District

Legal basis

• BRC Chapter 8-4 · governs · General Improvement Districts source source
• Ordinance No. 3644 (1970) (1970) · governs · The ordinance whose purposes CAGID serves (parking and related improvements); BRC 2-3-5 cites it source
• BRC 2-3-5 · governs · Downtown Management Commission (exercises board powers subject to council call-up) source

Appointed by

not applicable: The board of directors is City Council ex officio; no one is appointed to it (see the member_of relation from city-council). source source

How

not applicable: Council members become directors by taking council office; there is no application or appointment. source source

Seats

9 source source source as of 2024

Seat types

• City Council members, ex officio directors (the mayor is chair) ×9 ex-officio

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Term

Ex officio: a director serves while a member of City Council (council terms are four years, the mayor's two) source source source

Term limit

not applicable: Directors serve ex officio as council members; the district sets no term of its own (council term limits are in the Charter). source source

Staggering

not applicable: Ex officio board: it follows council's own staggered elections. source source

Powers

decision-making. Decides: As City Council sitting as the board: the district's budget, mill levy and appropriations, its parking garages and leases (for example, Resolution 319 of 2026 on a lease with the Sundance Institute). The Downtown Management Commission exercises several board powers subject to council call-up.. To council: It is City Council itself, convened as the district's board of directors. source source as of 2025-10-23

Council liaison

not applicable: City Council is itself the board; it sends no liaison. source source

Staff liaison

City Manager's Office (the city manager is ex officio general manager, secretary and treasurer) source source

Relations

• Downtown Management Commission appeals to Central Area General Improvement District · Council, acting as the CAGID board, may call up DMC actions. source
• City Council member of Central Area General Improvement District · Council sits as the district's board of directors. source source
• Downtown Management Commission recommends to Central Area General Improvement District · DMC is the district's advisory committee and exercises some board powers subject to call-up. source source
• City Manager's Office staffs Central Area General Improvement District · the city manager is ex officio general manager and secretary of the district source
• Office of Cultural and Economic Development staffs Central Area General Improvement District · manages the district (as Community Vitality) source source

History

• 2007 · renamed · Renamed the Downtown Commercial District (the city's financial reports date the renaming of the district and its fund to 2007); the BRC still calls it the Central Area General Improvement District, and 2025-2026 council agendas use 'Downtown Commercial District (formerly known as the Central Area General Improvement District)'. source source