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Fairboard urges Bremer County support for walkways, parking and event center improvements
Summary
Fairboard representatives told supervisors they conservatively estimate the fair draws about 72,000 attendees and outlined a multi‑phase plan—including hard‑surface promenades, accessible sidewalks and parking—seeking targeted county support (including $50,000 for concrete) and confirming $6 million already invested in improvements.
Representatives of the Bremer County Fairboard outlined plans for multi‑phase improvements to the county fairgrounds and asked the Board of Supervisors for targeted support to complete accessible walkways and parking.
During a presentation to the board, a Fairboard representative said the chamber provided formulas for an economic estimate and that a conservative attendance figure for the fair is about 72,000. "If we are assuming that 72,000 people ... spent $10," the presenter said, that would translate into roughly half a million dollars flowing back into the local economy; the presenter described this…
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