10-17-13 fdl county board vote on uw fdl student housing project delayed

A Fond du Lac County Board vote on a controversial UW Fond du Lac student housing project has been delayed until after the first of the year.  Fond du Lac County Executive Al Buechel told AM 1170 WFDL's Between the Line program that the question won’t be coming before the county board

next week after a county committee voted last week to wait until more information on the project is available.  Some county board supervisors raised concern at last month’s board meeting about the plan to lease county property for a dollar an acre per year to a private developer.  "All the other questions about operations and development agreements and those kinds of things, we wouldn't have the answers for them by next Tuesday,"  Buechel said.  "What they're doing is requesting that the county board give them more time to evaluate this."    Buechel says in the meantime requests for proposals will be sought along with a proposed developer in time for the January county board meeting.  "At least they can't say when we come back in January we didn't know anything about this.  They will now know everything about it and we'll have all the answers for them by the January board meeting.  Then they can vote it up or down."   Buechel says he believes the lease agreement is a fair incentive given that its a student housing project.