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Agenda Council Meeting April 15, 2024

• • Call to Order
  • Pledge of Allegiance
  • Additions to Agenda or Changes
  • Approval of Minutes
  • OLD BUSINESS
  • No old business
  • NEW BUSINESS
  • Helmsburg Redevelopment – Sock Factory Money $228,600
  • ADDITIONAL APPROPRIATION
  • SOLID WASTE – $10,000 to Special Waste;   $11,150 to Equipment
  • Auditor – $19,511.79 from Fund 1216 for New Workstations replacing the 33-year-old workstations.

Helmsburg Redevelopment – Sock Factory Money

Statement HCDC President Adrian OShea 

The council tentatively approved transferring the balance from the sale of the Sock Factory to the Helmsburg Community Development Corporation (CDC (501c3.)

In 2016/2017, citizens in Helmsburg asked the RDC for help with dilapidated housing. Below is the documentation from 2017  including The Helmsburg Economic Development Plan and Economic Development Area (EDA). Link to the “timeline” that tells the Story starting in 2016.

• • Helmsburg-EDA-Docs-and-Econ-Plan
  • Timeline – Helmsburg Revitalization – Community Led

Originally, the RDC needed a structure where we could acquire properties.  “This was never needed” — which is a story in itself.

HEADLINE NEWS. Helmburg now has an approved economic plan, economic development area, community development corporation (501c3), and “funding.”

Helmsburg provides a pretty good model for citizens to determine what they want and do not want in terms of quality of life and development.  Citizens (top management) in the community led the effort with the county government – elected and appointed officials (employees), “serving” the interests of the citizenry.