The Junction City First Capital Campaign raised approximately $1.2 million in pledges from local stake holders over a ten month period starting in August, 2014.

This past May the Junction City First Board of Directors was formed to oversee how the campaign funds are spent. Leon Osbourn, Chairman of that Board explained to this point they are funding the branding effort and development of a new website for the Junction City Area Chamber of Commerce Economic Development Commission.

He added that he is also working on setting up meetings with local landowners in order to hopefully set up the purchase of land to be used for future economic development.

“Just trying to get everybody on the same page, because Junction City really doesn’t have a lot of property they own right now that is large enough that a major employer would look at,” said Osbourn.

Other activities currently underway by the Board is the collection of the first year of pledges. Osbourn said that they have currently collected 99 percent of those pledges.