County Commissioners - Regular Meeting

Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice

Did we make a payment in 2025? no i believe the most recent payment towards this program would have been in 2023. okay and just for the record i do remember this board had some individuals in here talking and supported this back in 2024 i believe and we were told actually all three of us asked for updates quarterly updates or updates from those individuals including businesses and we were promised we would get them As of today, I received zero updates on this topic. I will support it because I believe it benefits our downtown businesses, but the lack of communication from the other side is ver

Um, I think this board, I think this board has been very clear. In talking about the level of expectation and outcomes for businesses. I mean, we, we know parking is probably 1 of the biggest barriers for business in downtown Harrisburg. That's very, very clear. And I think this board former boards wanted to be a part of that solution. Uh, but in order to ensure that businesses are benefiting, we asked for some specific data. data around the ability to see who was parking there, what times they were parking, how much was it utilized. We even talked about and floated the idea about businesses b

As suggested by the former business clerk, under former business, I am going to make a motion to vote the former business down in an attempt to allow for public presentations to occur from both of the vendors and make a decision following that presentation.

Hearing none, Commissioner's remarks. Commissioner Harwood. Just to piggyback on the opening remarks, I want to obviously give a great deal of credit to our staff, starting out with Chief Clerk Haggerty, Vince Pease, who has been drafted for a job that he's never signed up for, and for those staff at Economic Development that continue, despite being in challenging circumstances and understaffed continue to provide a level of work ethic and credibility to ensure that they are meeting the many obligations of our economic development staff. So for all involved in these reforms, I want to say than

Commissioner priest, thank you. I'm going to follow up my colleagues and and of course, thank our solicitor's office specifically. Matt owens guy and the executive assistant. Kelly banks to the works that they did getting us to this point. The game reforms and of course, thank the. Economic development department and staff and our chief of staff. So I know. A lot of time went into this and it's something that has been longer county, but to support this. unanimously with my two colleagues last week i attended the cap cog council of government's meeting on behalf of the county and provided count

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