Saturday, March 6, 2010

DeKalb hopes to land money on D.C. trip

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

The DeKalb County CEO, four commissioners and at least two staff members will spend the next few days in Washington, D.C., trying to secure federal funding.

CEO Burrell Ellis and the commissioners will attend the National Association of Counties annual legislative conference on Sunday through Wednesday.

“It’s about interacting with the federal agencies and White House staff to advocate for Community Development Block Grant and stimulus money,” Commissioner Lee May told the AJC.

The trip comes a little over a week after the commission passed a budget with $84 million in cuts, including unpaid holidays and cuts in health services, employee cars, libraries and other areas. May said he hopes he can access funding to help with those cuts.

The total cost for the trip is about $8,500.

ajc story

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Well... that's amazing but frankly i have a hard time determining it... I'm wondering what others have to say....