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BROWN COUNTY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – Brown County’s Board of Supervisors will meet Tuesday night to potentially vote on an agreement to relocate the Green Bay coal piles to the former Pulliam Power Plant site, according to a county agenda.
A special meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. Tuesday. According to the public notice provided, the supervisors will go into closed session to discuss “Former Pulliam Power Plant Site Agreement General Terms and Conditions.”
Brown County Board of Supervisors Chair Pat Buckley says a deal is still being worked on. Negotiations are still ongoing, but they want to have a meeting set, in the event a deal is reached.
If there isn’t a deal done to move the coal piles out of downtown Green Bay by the 5 p.m. Tuesday deadline, a $15 million state grant could be rescinded.
The deadline to get a deal done was originally May 30, but the state extended the deadline to Tuesday, saying, “Significant positive progress has been made in this effort, and we remain optimistic that the parties involved will come to an agreement.”
This $15 million grant is nearly half of the $33 million Brown County has accumulated to expand port operations to the former Pulliam Power Plant site at the mouth of the Fox River.
The coal piles have sat on the western edge of the river, just south of the Mason Street Bridge, for the past 125 years. A study has shown the land could garner about $150 million in new development if the coal piles were to be moved.
Brown County and C. Reiss have been focused on negotiating two proposals.
One is to lease the former Pulliam Power Plant site, and the other is to lease about 13 acres of county-owned land next to the Fox River Terminals, which is owned by C. Reiss’ parent company.
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