The distance between our Government Center and the Appalachian State campus is a little more than 300 miles. Give or take a few pit stops on the route, that equates to around five hours of staring through a windshield – which offers someone a lot of time to think.
That was the journey many Commissioners and New Hanover County staff members, including myself, took on October 3 to attend the Local Government Commission meeting in Boone. At this meeting, the LGC discussed and ultimately approved the county’s request for $57 million in debt issuance to fund Project Grace (bonds which the county sold on October 10 at incredibly low interest rates for today’s market conditions – an average yield of 4.28 percent).
Following years of work by staff and community partners, along with unwavering and unanimous support from the Board of Commissioners, the construction of a purpose-built, state-of-the-art Public Library and Cape Fear Museum in downtown Wilmingto
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