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Board presses county for public briefing on warehouse plan after storage concerns
Summary
Board members asked Buncombe County officials to present a public plan for temporary warehouse space after the county proposed moving elections equipment during a multi-year building schedule; members raised flood-risk and machine-security concerns and set a September meeting to review county plans.
BUNCOMBE COUNTY — Board of Elections members told county staff they want the board at the table as the county develops a temporary warehouse plan to relocate elections equipment while a county-owned site at 50 Cox Avenue is demolished for affordable housing.
Executive Director Corinne Duncan said the county informed the elections office that the current warehouse site is slated for redevelopment and that a temporary site will be needed between demolition of the current building and completion of a planned replacement facility on Canute Lane. The county’s projected timeline calls for groundbreaking on the…
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