Responsibilities:  Members consider industrial and manufacturing projects with appurtenant facilities & determine the appropriateness of financing such projects through the issuance of industrial development bonds. Members shall study the advantages, facilities, resources, products, attractions, & conditions concerning the county with relation to the encouragement of economic development in Marion County. 

Members serve four-year terms, & the board shall designate not less than five persons who are residents & electors of the county as members of the authority.