More details are now known about a public meeting on a proposed correctional facility.
Lumby council decided Monday that the March 23 information session about a prison will be held at 7 p.m. at Charles Bloom Secondary School.
“The community hall, when we had an initial meeting, was busting at the seams,” said Mayor Kevin Acton of the need for a larger venue.
Expected to take to appear before residents are representatives from the Ministry of the Solicitor General’s corrections branch.
“I hope they will do all of the answering of questions,” said Acton.
“I hope people will believe them when they provide the facts.”
Council has also decided that the format of the meeting will include residents providing questions in advance to the village office or at the door.
When it’s a resident’s turn to ask their question, they will be called up to to the microphone.
Lumby residents will go to the polls April 30 to vote on whether they support pursuing the development of a provincial correction centre in the village.