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Area Plan Commission funds consultant work, council tables full appropriation for comprehensive plan
Summary
Council approved moving funds to pay a planning consultant and agreed to table a separate request to appropriate up to $400,000 for the comprehensive plan until June while APC provides a payment schedule and contract details.
Boone County Council approved reallocating APC funds to pay an existing consultant and tabled, until June, a request to appropriate the remainder of funds for a proposed comprehensive-plan contract with HWC.
John Werson, speaking for the Area Plan Commission, asked the council to move $55,000 from the executive director salary line to the planning consultant line to pay a consultant identified as Deb, who has been working with the APC as a consultant rather than a full-time executive director. Council members discussed the merits of keeping Deb under a consultant agreement rather than hiring a new full-time director; Werson and APC members said Deb’s experience and continuity are valuable for the ongoing comprehensive-plan work.
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