FARMINGTON — Selectmen approved the use of funds from the town’s Tax Increment Financing reserve account to help pay for reprinting downtown maps.
The board authorized the use of up to $1,800 from the TIF funds Tuesday. Alison Hagerstrom and Janice Maxham, representing the Farmington Downtown Association, told the board that revising and reprinting would cost $2,650 for 7,500 copies.
TIF funds helped print 20,000 copies of the map a few years ago. This time the organization is attempting to sell business listings on the map to defray the cost so members asked for a little over half the total amount, Hagerstrom said.
There’s been a lot of changes in the downtown area since the first printing, she said. Printing fewer copies is expected to enable updating the map more often.
Selectmen asked that the map include businesses outside the downtown area considering that the TIF funds were negotiated when Franklin Printing on the Wilton Road was redeveloped.
Both women were willing to consider it for future printings but in an attempt to finish the maps before Farmington hosts the statewide, annual Downtown Conference on May 17, there wasn’t time to accommodate them on this map, they said.
About 300 business owners and visitors are invited to Farmington on May 17 for a day full of programs, tours and shopping, they said.
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