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Poquoson mayor outlines priorities: public safety building, schools, sidewalks and fiscal stability
Summary
Mayor Hooks presented the city's strategic priorities to the EDA on April 1, highlighting the new $12 million Public Safety Building (mostly ARPA-funded), efforts to boost school enrollment and staff pay, sidewalk expansion planning and maintaining the city's AAA bond rating.
Mayor Hooks addressed the Economic Development Authority on April 1 and outlined the City Council's strategic priorities for the term, emphasizing public safety, schools, infrastructure and fiscal stability.
Hooks said the new $12,000,000 Public Safety Building was made possible by prior feasibility work and by $9,000,000 in American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds, with roughly $3,000,000 paid locally. "Had we not have had the feasibility study, had the EDA not already been in possession of the property that that building sets on, it would not be here today," Hooks said, underscoring the…
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