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County hears $101,725 business-resiliency award, $118,300 OSLAD pavilion grant; state EV charging round poses quick deadline
Summary
South Central Illinois Regional Planning and Development Commission director Luke Eason told the Effingham County board the county received a $101,725 Business Resiliency award for local firms and an $118,300 OSLAD grant for a pavilion; he also outlined a March 22 Rebuild Illinois EV charging grant with a May 10 deadline.
Effingham County board members on April 1 heard from Luke Eason, executive director of the South Central Illinois Regional Planning and Development Commission, about three state grant developments affecting the county.
Eason said the county applied last year to the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity for a Business Resiliency grant. "We asked for a $125,000... and just recently it was awarded, in the amount of $101,725," Eason said, adding that roughly $92,478 will be distributed to eight of the nine businesses that applied and $9,000 is earmarked for administration by the commission. He said eligible payments excluded…
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