EDC’s mandate appears unchanged after City Hall’s takeover

After council voted last December to move employees of the Economic Development Corp. into city hall and onto its payroll on Jan. 1, I wrote that it appeared the EDC had come full circle.
It started out back in the 1980s with commissioner Doug Leighton and a secretary operating on a budget of $135,000 within the confines of city hall.
Later, after Leighton was no longer on the scene, council in a change of course began to think there was some value in economic development and set up the Economic