Governor Perdue Recognizes Colquitt County as E-Friendly with Help from Moultrie Tech Staff
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Pictured, left to right, are MTC’s Katie Harrison, Governor Sonny Perdue and the Moultrie Chamber’s Amanda Holt. |
MOULTRIE , GA – Governor Perdue and members of the OneGeorgia Authority Board met June 11 at Ogeechee Technical College in Statesboro where they approved the grants and loans from the OneGeorgia Authority’s portfolio of financing programs including Equity, EDGE, BRIDGE and E 9-1-1 and recognized those communities who have achieved the Entrepreneur Friendly designation. These projects, along with their respective local leadership representatives, were recognized at the OneGeorgia board meeting.
The board received an update from Ken Stewart, Commissioner of the Georgia Department of Economic Development on the department’s community-based Entrepreneur Friendly program. Colquitt, Chatham, Gilmer, Bulloch, Lee, Mitchell, Putnam, Banks, Richmond, Charlton, Early, Heard and Macon counties were recognized as the most recent communities to earn the Entrepreneurial Friendly designation. To date, 109 communities have earned this designation, and more are working toward this important certification. Once a community has earned the Entrepreneur Friendly designation, they have the opportunity to apply for entrepreneur and small business implementation grants of up to $25,000. The grant program is funded by the OneGeorgia Authority and is only available to communities who have successfully earned the designation “Entrepreneur Friendly.”
Katie Harrison, Moultrie Technical College’s business and industry services coordinator, and Amanda Holt, the vice president of marketing for the Moultrie-Colquitt County Chamber of Commerce, partnered for the project to have Colquitt County named as an E-Friendly community.
The OneGeorgia Authority was created utilizing one-third of the state’s tobacco settlement to assist the state’s most economically challenged areas. The OneGeorgia Authority is expected to receive about $1.6 billion over the 25-year term of the settlement.
