Hackel objected to the “unorthodoxed” way the budget amendment was approved by “piggybacking” it on an unrelated vote – approval of training and conference funds for the Department of Planning and Economic Development – at the Jan. 23 Public Services Committee meeting.
A land bank authority would allow the county to obtain distressed commercial, residential and industrial properties that no one else wants, rehabilitate them and sell them so they can be put to good use.