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County misses DCA deadline; wont get new state money
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For the second time in 2010, Newton County has missed a deadline to turn in required planning documents to the state and will be ineligible to receive some new state funding during July and most of August.Newton County was late turning in its Capital Improvement Elements plan to the Georgia Department of Community Affairs; the plan spells out which projects the county will build with its collected impact fees, when they will be built and how much they will cost.The county does not expect to miss out on any new grants during July and August, Chairman Kathy Morgan said, but the DCA does