Union County Commissioners Schedule Public Work Session for March 31

Preston Boop, Jeffrey Reber, and Stacy Richards convened in the boardroom at 155 North 15th Street, Lewisburg for a two-hour work session Monday that likely previewed decisions residents could feel within 30 to 90 days. The county's calendar entry was the only official public notice attached to the session. It lists no agenda items, no departmental presenters, and no indication of which decisions may be approaching a formal vote.

The March 31 session ran from 10 a.m. to noon at the Union County Government Center. No supporting packet, departmental memos, or staff briefing materials were posted alongside the calendar notice, leaving residents, reporters, and stakeholders with no advance record of what the three commissioners were reviewing behind closed doors.

Among the most consequential issues the board has been working through is the future of a 37-acre lot at Great Stream Commons, the county's industrial park in Gregg Township. PNK P2 LLC submitted an offer to purchase the parcel for a potential data center, a use commissioners have publicly opposed. Boop and his colleagues have stated a preference for a manufacturer capable of using the park's rail-served infrastructure, and a gnocchi manufacturing facility is already set to open at Great Stream Commons this year. Whether Monday's session advanced or resolved that land deal has not been confirmed in any public filing.

Affordable housing program adjustments are another recurring work-session item, along with grant applications tied to infrastructure, emergency services, and public works. Those items move through work sessions before arriving on the formal agenda at regular board meetings, which are held on the first and third Tuesdays of each month at 2 p.m.

The transparency gap at the center of Monday's session is straightforward: residents had no posted packet and no advance notice of which items were in play. Commissioners Boop, Reber, and Richards can be reached directly at (570) 524-3894, (570) 524-8636, and (570) 524-8640. Public records requests under the Right-to-Know Law can be submitted through the commissioners' office or through unioncountypa.org, where meeting minutes and subsequent board agendas will be the first official confirmation of what was resolved and what is headed for a public vote.