LIMA, OH (WLIO) - The State of Ohio handing out money for counties to do infrastructure work to help with economic development.
A little over 10 and half-million dollars will be divided up between 51 communities. Locally Auglaize, Putnam, Hancock, Hardin, Mercer, and Logan Counties and the city Sidney each got funding from the federal community development block grant program. The funding will be used for street repairs, parks and recreational facilities, and water and sewer improvement projects. State officials say the improvements show companies looking to come to Ohio, communities invest in themselves.
Individual awards are listed below:
• Adams County – $170,000
• Ashland (Ashland County) – $150,000
• Ashland County – $150,000
• Ashtabula County – $380,000
• Auglaize County – $198,000
• Brown County – $202,000
• Carroll County – $150,000
• Champaign County – $160,000
• Chillicothe (Ross County) - $150,000
• Clinton County - $184,000
• Coshocton County – $192,000
• Crawford County – $220,000
• Defiance County – $150,000
• Fayette County – $150,000
• Fremont (Sandusky County) – $150,000
• Fulton County – $150,000
• Gallia County – $162,000
• Geauga County – $284,000
• Greene County – $236,000
• Hancock County – $150,000
• Hardin County – $152,000
• Harrison County – $150,000
• Hocking County – $150,000
• Jackson County – $182,000
• Lawrence County – $264,000
• Licking County – $470,000
• Logan County – $186,000
• Lorain County – $570,000
• Marion (Marion County) – $202,000
• Medina (Medina County) – $150,000
• Mercer County – $166,000
• Miami County – $196,000
• Morgan County – $150,000
• New Philadelphia (Tuscarawas County) – $150,000
• Perry County – $188,000
• Pike County – $156,000
• Piqua (Miami County) – $150,000
• Portsmouth (Scioto County) – $150,000
• Putnam County – $150,000
• Richland County – $288,000
• Ross County – $238,000
• Sandusky County – $154,000
• Seneca County – $158,000
• Sidney (Shelby County) – $150,000
• Trumbull County – $578,000
• Tuscarawas County – $334,000
• Vinton County – $150,000
• Washington County – $206,000
• Wayne County – $360,000
• Williams County – $184,000
• Zanesville (Muskingum County) – $184,000
