Grand Island Needs $3-million for State Fair

GRAND ISLAND  (AP) - Grand Island needs $3 million by Oct. 1 to meet the plan timetable for the relocation of the State Fair. The Hall County supervisors say they are hoping for both private and public funding to help raise the money by the deadline. A state law authorized moving the fair to Grand Island by 2010. That will empty the current fairgrounds in Lincoln for development by the University of Nebraska. The Board of Supervisors pledged $1 million Wednesday to support the relocation of the State Fair, but the Grand Island State Fair Funding Committee still needs $7.5 million. As part of the relocation plan, the committee must come up with $8.5 million of the $42 million expense. The second $3 million must be committed by February. The full $8.5 million is due by next July 2009.