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Sussex officials press state on draft 2025 spending-strategies map, cite data gaps and forward-looking concerns
Summary
County planning staff presented the draft 2025 State Spending Strategies maps and scoring methodology to the Sussex County Council, and council members raised concerns that the maps rely on backward-looking data, duplicate some environmental layers and omit recent investments that should influence state spending.
County planning staff presented the draft 2025 State Spending Strategies maps to the Sussex County Council on Oct. 7 and recommended that council review the data layers that underlie the map before it is finalized. Planning presenter Mister Whitehouse told the council the maps are "a data driven exercise" and that scores and investment levels are assigned by a numerical formula: "If you are greater than 7 in your score, you get level 1."
The presentation and a sustained council discussion focused on several technical issues: whether some environmental layers duplicate others and therefore "double or triple counting"…
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