County commissioners commit $350,000 dollars in 2023 and pledge $700,000 more in 2024 and 2025 to the Williams County Port Authority….to help their efforts to develop housing in the county. Commissioners unanimously agreed after a request for the funding by the WCPA board chairman. For years, the county has identified a need for housing and the WCPA has taken on the issue over the past year or more. Officials say…the county’s funds would be combined with private financing and go towards helping purchase land and financing the infrastructure, water, sewer, streets….for multi-lot subdivisions within the county. The WCPA has to date secured $600,000 dollars in pledges of funding from private sources, plus another $150,000 from private sources who have agreed to donate pending the decision by the commissioners.