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County executive updates board on campus search, shoreland zoning, planetarium finances and public-health trends

Winnebago County Board of Supervisors · February 24, 2026
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Summary

Winnebago County’s county executive told the board that Faith Technologies declined to purchase the campus, the county is preparing a community visioning process, towns must file shoreland zoning documents by early March to avoid losing county general zoning on April 1, and that suicide and overdose deaths show concerning trends that prompted a temporary staffing authorization for the medical examiner’s office.

Winnebago County’s county executive provided a multi-topic update to the Board of Supervisors covering economic-development prospects for a county-owned campus, an impending shoreland zoning transition, the Barlow Planetarium’s early performance under county management, and troubling early-year public-health numbers.

On economic development, the executive said Faith Technologies completed its 90-day due diligence and declined to make a formal offer because rehabilitation costs and the cost to host a nationally centralized training operation were too high. The county will return to prior efforts to market the property and is…

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