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EDC urges feasibility study and Board input for Poor House tract as January budget deadline looms
Summary
The Economic Development Committee (EDC) of Northumberland County reviewed 10 options for the county‑owned Poor House (courthouse) tract, agreed to ask the Board of Supervisors which options are non‑starters, and set a compressed timeline to produce implementation costs ahead of the FY2028 budget cycle.
The Economic Development Committee (EDC) of Northumberland County voted to seek guidance from the Board of Supervisors on a short list of development options for the county‑owned Poor House (courthouse) tract and to accelerate feasibility work so that implementation costs can be considered in next year’s budget process.
Robert, the presenter to the committee, reviewed a working slide deck that described 10 distinct options for the 140‑acre tract, nine evaluation criteria and a four‑phase approach: strategic evaluation, feasibility validation, policy direction and implementation. ‘‘We have 10 defined options that tell us what those are and what the plan is and what examples of those types of options are,’’ he said, presenting the draft…
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