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<\/p>\nCommissioners also voted to extend the lease with OVG360 for operations at the Richard M. Borchard Fairgrounds, though county leaders say costs have risen.<\/p>\n
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 Nueces County commissioners tackled several major projects during Wednesday\u2019s Commissioners Court meeting, including updates on the Hilltop Community Center, renovations at Packery Channel and a lease extension for operations at the Richard M. Borchard Fairgrounds in Robstown.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere making great progress we basically have gutted out all the old walls and all of that is gone,\u201d said Nueces County Precinct 1 Commissioner Mike Pusley about the progress being made at the Hilltop Community Center.<\/p>\n
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Pusley said the project will play a major role in countywide infrastructure efforts.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of the wings is going to become our EOC center for the county. So that during a hurricane or some type of event. Our EOC folks will have a place that they will be housed at,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The project is expected to be completed by the end of the year.<\/p>\n
Commissioners also voted to extend the lease with OVG360 for operations at the Richard M. Borchard Fairgrounds, though county leaders say rising management costs are prompting further discussion.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur cost of having a management company has increased fairly significantly,\u201d Pusley said.<\/p>\n
Pusley said while the county is happy with OVG360, it still pays about $1 million annually to have the group operate the fairgrounds. He said county leaders want to reduce costs without impacting events like the Nueces County Junior Livestock Show.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a conversation he believes is worth having.<\/p>\n
\u201cAbout whether or not we want to continue that partnership or whether we think it would be more cost effective for the county to manage that facility itself,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Another topic discussed during Wednesday\u2019s meeting was the Packery Channel project. Precinct 4 Commissioner Brent Chesney said he has received positive updates on the work.<\/p>\n
\u201cU know we’re a big birding community we’re a big fishing community and it’ll provide some more fishing access,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Chesney said the improvements will be worth the wait.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’ll be about an eight month project he came back and said it’s moving along real nicely. New fishing pier, just some really neat stuff,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Commissioners also voted to extend the lease with OVG360 for operations at the Richard M. Borchard Fairgrounds, though…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-312152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}