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Orange County committee green-lights SEQRA review and $5M construction appropriation for Arboretum event center
Summary
The Fiscal Services Committee approved assuming SEQRA lead agency status and a $5 million supplemental appropriation to fund construction of an 8,000-square-foot Arboretum Event Center at Thomas Bull Memorial Park; officials discussed costly on-site fire-suppression needs tied to lack of municipal water.
The Orange County Legislature's Fiscal Services Committee voted Dec. 16 to assume lead agency status under the State Environmental Quality Review Act and to fund the construction phase of the Arboretum Event Center at Thomas Bull Memorial Park in Hamptonburg.
Commissioners presented the plan for an approximately 8,000-square-foot event center with restrooms, a kitchen, storage and a green room. The county sought a $5,000,000 supplemental appropriation to establish the construction portion of a project architects estimate will total about $6,100,000, or roughly $730 per square foot.
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