PERRYVILLE â Heâs lived in Perryville all his life but Matthew Roath is now making his first attempt at public office.
Roath, 41, is challenging Mayor Robert Ashby for his seat leading the town government. Perryville votes May 11 from 7 a.m. until 7 p.m. in the meeting room inside town hall, 515 Broad St.
Roath said he decided to enter the race based on observations heâs made.
âOver the last three years Iâve seen a significant amount of disarray,â Roath said. âIâm very concerned with what I consider reckless spending.â
Pointing to the Little League complex behind town hall, which Perryville paid $2.4 million to renovate and redirect, and the $2.8 million police headquarters, Roath believes both could have been done for less money.
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PERRYVILLE â Adding 250 more rooms to the Great Wolf Lodge resort planned for Chesapeake Overlook Parkway means more jobs for construction, more jobs to operate the entertainment venue, and more overall revenue for the town, the county and the state according to Anirban Basu, chairman and CEO of the Sage Policy Group, Inc.
In a presentation to the Perryville mayor and commissioners Tuesday night, Basu compared the extensions of the project to what Sage had studied in a 2019 Economic Impact Study.
âWe were asked to update our findings based on this meaningful increase,â Basu said in introducing the revision.
What had been an $18 million fiscal impact for Perryville has now grown to $25 million, according to the Sage Policy Group report.