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As grant deadline nears, county, city and C. Reiss discuss proposals to relocate coal piles
Two new proposals to relocate the coal piles south of Mason Street in Green Bay are under negotiation in another attempt to reach a deal before the May 30 deadline to use a $15 million state grant.
At the Brown County Board meeting May 21, Chair Patrick Buckley said county officials put together two different proposals over the last week that would relocate the coal storage. While the details of the offers have not been released publicly, Buckley said both alternate sites previously offered are still on the table along with the former Pulliam property.
Representatives from the city, county and C. Reiss held a joint meeting to negotiate the proposals May 20. It was the first time all key parties met together in 2025, as they face the deadline to secure the grant to help relocate the coal piles.
County Executive Troy Streckenbach said the new proposals provide a "compromise offer" with "possibilities that I don't think everyone was thinking" about in previous proposal terms.
The county and city presented the new proposals to C. Reiss and are awaiting a response, Buckley said.
"We had probably one of our more productive meetings with the city (and C. Reiss) and we came out of that real positive," Buckley said.
The state Department of Administration notified city, county and company officials in late April that the Neighborhood Investment Grant would disappear if the officials couldn't agree to a deal by the end of May. The grant was awarded to develop the former Pulliam power plant at the mouth of the Fox River into a port site for C. Reiss' coal storage.
The meeting also comes after county officials drafted a "summary of events" May 9 that directed staff to consider offers to relocate the coal piles to two alternate sites, though some members of the city and C. Reiss disagreed with some of the statements in the summary.
County Board member Patrick Evans said the meeting May 20 between the three parties has eased his concerns about reaching an agreement on time and heard positive things from each side.
"I think we're really close to getting a deal done," Evans said.
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This article originally appeared on Green Bay Press-Gazette: Brown County, Green Bay and C. Reiss discuss coal piles relocation
