The Executive Committee of the Barron County Board of Supervisors approved a transfer of $150,000 in Capital Improvement funds to go toward the $342,000 cost of making physical and audio/visual improvements to the Veterans Memorial Auditorium at the county Government Center.
At the Jan. 6 meeting County Administrator Jeff French said, “The bottom line is we are never going back to pre-COVID days for meetings; County Board members and committee members are requesting the online option.”
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