5/18/17
by News Department on 05/18/17State office space...
Senators David G. Argall (R-Schuylkill/Berks) and Randy Vulakovich (R-Allegheny) have found a way to rehabilitate state-owned empty office space and eliminate the need for additional rental costs.
Under the proposal, the state could sell naming rights to the buildings owned by the state similar to what the state did in 2012 when the State Farm Show Complex’s Exposition Hall was renamed Weis Market’s Exposition Hall. The grocery store chain agreed to a five-year contract netting the state $750,000.
The senators want to put the funding into a specific account that will rehabilitate unused office space.
According to the senators, the goal of this legislation is to move state employees out of leased facilities and back into offices already owned by the state in order to reduce the cost to taxpayers.
