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Cleburne County looks to pursue congressional appropriations for infrastructure, cites $1 million bridge project
Summary
At a work session commissioners discussed pursuing congressionally directed appropriations and compiling a prioritized list of local projects, including a roughly $1,000,000 bridge project, and agreed to coordinate requests across House and Senate offices.
At a Cleburne County Commission work session, commissioners and staff discussed seeking congressionally directed appropriations for local infrastructure projects and agreed to compile a prioritized project list to submit to Congressional and senatorial offices.
"What Sherry is talking about is federal appropriations, not grants," said Unidentified Speaker 7, explaining that appropriations (commonly called earmarks) are requests submitted to members of Congress and differ from grants run through federal agencies. Speaker 7 offered to send the commission examples of projects…
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