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OfficeoftheCountyAdministrator912-576-9631(office)
P.O.Box99/200East4"Street912-576-0448(fax)
Woodbine,Georgia31569jehaigler@co.camden.ga.us
FORIMMEDIATERELEASE
CamdenCountyAwarded
$5.5MillionGrantforDisasterMitigation
WOODBINE,Ga.May19,2021AttheirMay18,2021,regularmeeting,theCamden
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CountyBoardofCommissionersaccepteda$5,542,894CommunityDevelopmentBlockGrant
Mitigation(CDBG-MIT)awardfromtheGeorgiaDepartmentofCommunityAffairs(DCA).
“ThisfundingwillhaveapositiveimpactonthefutureofCamdenCounty,”saidChairmanGary
Blount.“Thisisanotherstepinensuringthatourcommunityismoreresilientinthefaceoffuture
disasters.”
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