Wicomico County Council to consider new Capital Improvement Plan
WICOMICO CO., Md. – Wicomico County leaders are set to unveil its Capital Improvement Plan for Fiscal Years 2026 through 2030 on Thursday.
Among some of the earliest projects to be addressed, upgrades to the Civic Center and corrections facility. The county will also be looking at funding models for the Fruitland Primary School project, but insufficient state funding for Fruitland Primary will put some other projects on hold like the need for a new home for the emergency services department.
Right now, that department is located on the second floor of the jail, but will be relocated to the new home of the sheriff’s department when it is open.
“We need to have upgrades to our emergency services system. They do a great job with what they have, but there’s a lot of state-of-the-art technology that I think will be really beneficial once we are able to get them into a new site and they’re expanding too, so we need to make sure they have everything they need as they expand out,” said Giordano.
Another project the Capital Improvement Plan plans to address is the renovation of the old Verizon building off of Mt. Hermon Road, which is set to become the new location for the health department.
Giordano said the county will consolidate personnel working in offices in the Adkins and Hurdle buildings in a centralized location.
“The Health Department itself is a service that people need to be able to access and with what’s going on in downtown, parking is a little bit of an issue, accessing that building is very difficult for some residents, so just like what we did with the library we’re doing the same thing with the Health Department, moving those services, still in the city of Salisbury, but more so on the outskirts with a large parking lot and all of our services in one location, which is what the dream is, to eventually have a big health complex right there,” said Giordano.
Giordano said the county will be putting around $2.7 million toward renovations in the old Verizon building.
