The Clay County grants coordinator said her department secured a $17 million award from Florida’s Department of Transportation this year, the largest competitive grant the county had ever received.
Megan Covey made the announcement while giving county commissioners her annual département report.
The $17 million SUN Trail award includes funding a non-motorized trail from Live Oak Lane in Middleburg’s Jennings State Forest to State Road 21.
Covey also said the county’s $42.5 million ARPA allocation has been fully obligated.
“So, from here on out,” she said, “we will be focusing on closeout and auditing that with U.S. Treasury. Similarly, our emergency rental assistance was another federal program that became available in response to COVID-19. Our Emergency Rental Assistance 1 program has been closed, and it was fully audited in FY 24.”
The grants coordinator said phase 2 of the emergency rental assistance program is being closed out.
Covey said the county’s return on investment in her department was 71 to 1 in fiscal year 2024. She added that the department cost the county $845,714 and brought in over $60 million in funding during that same period.
