Northern Neck PDC:
“After only four meetings with Jerry Davis, Executive
Director of the Northern Neck Planning District Commission, the Colonial Beach
Revitalization Management Team is ready to pass the draft application on to the
town council. ‘This will be the last meeting for the group before the grant
application is approved,’ Davis told the group with confidence. Davis recapped
the project’s final details with the group and finalized the last steps needed
to complete the process of applying for an almost $1 million Community
Development Block Grant.
The application will go to the council for their second and
final public hearing next week. Davis and staff will present a draft
application to the council at the February 13 meeting. Changes will be made as
needed, and Davis hopes to have the council’s final approval to submit the
application at the March meeting… Previously, Colonial Beach’s application
dealt mostly with slum and blight elimination. So to make the application more
competitive, the group has focused more on providing low- to moderate-income
jobs. Currently, in order for businesses to take advantage of the loans provided
through the grant, they must commit to creating at least one job for low- to
moderate-income individuals.”
~Writes Linda Farneth
of The Journal
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