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City of Coldspring gets $250,000 grant for roads
San Jacinto News- Times
COLDSPRING – The Texas Department of Rural Affairs (TDRA) presented the City of Coldspring with an oversized, ceremonial check to recognize the community for their hard work in securing a grant from the agency’s Texas Community Development Block Grand (TxCDBG) program. “We are very pleased to award this grant to Coldspring,” said Charles S. Stone, executive director of TDRA. “Community development projects such as this help Texans in rural communities improve their quality of life signifi cantly.” The City of Coldspring will use its $250,000 grant to make city street improvements, including 3,600 linear feet of street work at Br Park Loop on Hwy. 150 at the south and north intersection. The agency awarded $2,500,000 to 10 Deep East Texas area communities, including Browndell, Coldspring, Kennard, Newton, Newton County, Pineland, Sabine County, San Jacinto County, Timpson and Trinity County. TDRA awarded more than $42 million to rural communities in Texas for the 2010 funding cycle. “Texas CDBG is a competitive grant program, so the community is to be commended for their hard work and diligence in pursuing this grant,” said Mark Wyatt, director of TDRA’s community development division. The grants come from the Texas Community Development Block Grant program, largest CDBG program in the nation. Rural cities with populations less than 50,000 and counties that have a non-metropolitan population under 200,000 and are not eligible for direct funding from HUD may apply for the agency’s TxCDBG program. The program serves about 1,017 eligible rural communities, 245 rural counties and provides services to over 375,000 low-to-moderate-income beneficiaries each year.
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