Politics & Government
County To Reapply For Grant For Senior Center Expansion
The application this year was turned down, and the Board of Commissioners is starting the process anew.
After failing in its first attempt, Oconee County is going to try again to get a grant from the Georgia Department of Community Affairs for expansion of the Senior Center, located in Oconee Veterans Park.
Commissioners gave tentative approval at their agenda setting meeting last week to an agreement with the Northeast Georgia Regional Commission for assistance in making the grant application and, if the county is successful, in administering the grant.
The grant can be up to $750,000, and the county will pay the Regional Commission $1,500 for assistance with the grant application and up to $37,500 for administration of a successful grant.
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In other action at the unusually short Commission meeting last week, the commissioners tentatively agreed to allocate $60,000 from interest earned on funds collected from the county’s Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax for farmland protection.
The total needed for protection of 40.8 acres on the Randy Wilkes farm on Greensboro Highway is $121,000, and $61,000 will be taken from SPLOST funds collected for that purpose.
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The Commissioners are scheduled to take final action Tuesday night on the Memorandum of Agreement with the Northeast Georgia Regional Commission for the Senior Center expansion and on the funding for the protection of the Wilkes farm.
For more on the story, with a video of last week’s Commission meeting, please go to Oconee County Observations.