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Bedford County Fair asks committee for county support to stretch $20,000 state grant for safety and accessibility projects
Summary
JD Turner, president of the Bedford County Fair, told the Rules and Legislative Committee the fair has $20,000 in state capital-improvement funds spread across eight projects and asked whether the county could provide additional funds or assistance to address priority safety items such as bleacher replacement, electrical repairs and air circulation.
JD Turner, president of the Bedford County Fair, presented an eight-project plan to the Bedford County Rules and Legislative Committee on Feb. 10 and asked the county to consider providing additional support so a Tennessee Association of Fairs state capital-improvement grant can be stretched to cover the most urgent safety and accessibility work.
"We would like to see if there was a way that we could get some additional grant money from the county so that we can make this money go further," Turner said, describing projects that include replacing every board on bleachers, repairing damaged electrical…
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