NH Business Review
Move to sidestep panel is ‘a significant issue for the city,’ says mayor
March 4, 2021
‘The commission has done extraordinary work and added to the value of the property – that could all go for naught,’ says Laconia Mayor Andrew Hosmer about the governor’s plans to seek to sell the 200-acre former Laconia State School property.
Members of the Lakeshore Redevelopment Planning Commission, charged with plotting the future of the former Laconia State School property, say they were surprised to learn that the companion bill to the FY 2022-23 state budget authorized the governor and Executive Council to sell or lease 200 acre property.
NH Business Review
Proposal would sideline agency set up to oversee planning for former Laconia State School site
March 3, 2021
Gov. Chris Sununu has apparently chosen to shelve the redevelopment of the former Laconia State School property in favor of seeking to sell or lease the 200 acres overlooking lakes Winnisquam and Opechee to a private party.
House Bill 2, the trailer bill to the governor’s fiscal year 2022-23 budget, includes a provision that would vest the governor and Executive Council with the sole authority to “sell, convey, lease, rent, exchange, abandon or otherwise dispose of the property” on whatever terms they deem appropriate and without regard to any other provision of law regarding the disposal of state property.