Randolph County Commissioners have scheduled a public hearing to consider buying land for proposed megasite that would attract an automobile manufacturer.
Commissioners want to spend $4.2 million to purchase 258 acres of the proposed 1,200-acre site. A state grant would provide $1.5 million of the funding, but where the rest of the funding will come from is less clear, as least as the N&R reports —“some of the money” the county “received from Waste Management Inc. to buy the rights to operate the county landfill” was “set aside for economic development.
No doubt commissioners will get an earful from county residents who don’t see the numbers adding up.
