CARBONDALE — —This town’s Economic Development Partnership (CEDP), with just a year of work under its belt, is cinching down to “a bare bones operation mode” while it awaits guidance from the town government.
Lack of funding and “meaningful direction” from the town, board resignations, the pending dissolution of its host organization, and back-to-back elections in which voters rejected a shopping center development and the candidates who supported it, led the CEDP to submit a pointed letter to the Carbondale Board of Trustees.
The letter describing a minimal approach to economic development efforts, signed by CEDP treasurer Bill Grant, will be the focus of discussion at tonight’s trustee meeting.
“This seemed the most prudent course, as the recent local elections in Carbondale may have totally poisoned meaningful economic development for as long as 10 to 15 years down the road,” Grant’s letter stated.
He referred to the January rejection of the Village at Crystal River (VCR) shopping center, and the April election of a slate of VCR opponents to the Board of Trustees.
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