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Albany County commissioners approve bonding plan to fund fairgrounds project and prioritize new county services building
Summary
After extended discussion of consultant scenarios and timelines, the Board approved language to include the Albany County Fairgrounds grandstand and to allocate remaining bonding capacity toward a new multi-department county services building, so staff can begin drafting ballot language for a May 2026 excise-tax vote.
Albany County commissioners voted on Oct. 25 to move forward with a bonding package that will put the Albany County Fairgrounds grandstand project on the 2026 specific-purpose excise tax ballot and direct the remainder of the county ebt capacity to a proposed new multi-department county services building.
County staff told commissioners they must finalize specific bond language and project descriptions to meet election-code deadlines and to allow the bonding attorney to draft ballot language. "We have to have before our second meeting in January... the formal notice provided to the clerk's office because that has to be done 110 days before that May,"…
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